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  Astronomers have recently speculated that our nearest neighbor, Venus, may have been he first habitable planet in the Solar System — “a place where life was just as likely to arise as it was on Earth,” says Darby Dyar, a planetary scientist at Mount Holyoke College with NASA’s Solar System Exploration team. Coming off its fifth encounter with the Sun in 2020, the NASA’s Parker Solar Probe headed toward Venus, where on July 11, the spacecraft performed its first outbound flyby of Venus, passing approximately 516 miles above the surface as it curved around the planet passing throug...

NASA's lucky charm for a successful mission? Peanuts TODAY 2/23/2021 © Provided by TODAY Peanuts are popular at baseball games and bars, but did you know they're also a mainstay at NASA? Last Thursday, as engineers and scientists watched and waited breathlessly as the Perseverance rover hurdled toward Mars in a fiery landing, they did so next to bags and jars of "good-luck peanuts." © Damian Dovarganes Rob Manning (Damian Dovarganes / AP) On the day of the rover's landing on the red planet, Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, shared a p...

Story highlights Comparable in size to the Golden Gate Bridge, asteroid 231937 or 2001 FO32, will pass within 2,016,351 km of Earth in 2021 The largest asteroid to fly past the Earth in 2021 is set to make a close approach to the planet on March 21. Comparable in size to the Golden Gate Bridge, asteroid 231937 or 2001 FO32, will pass within 2,016,351 km of Earth in 2021. Based on its brightness and the way it reflects light, 2001 FO32 is approximately between 0.767 to 1.714 kilometres in diameter. At Congress's direction, NASA has supported a ground-based program to identify the NEOs lar...

  Welcome to this week’s fix of news of space and science –a random journey from Planet Earth through the Cosmos– that has the capacity to provide clues to our existence and add a much needed cosmic perspective in our current epoch. The Galaxy Report is also available here as a twice-weekly newsletter that includes exclusive feature stories. Could game theory help discover intelligent alien life? –-New research from The University of Manchester suggests using a strategy linked to cooperative game playing known as ‘game theory’ in order to maximize the potential of finding intell...

NASA says looking at tomorrow’s moon poses no danger to your sight and says that binoculars or telescopes are not necessary. Astronomers recommend turning your flash off to take a good picture of the Wolf Moon and set your phone camera’s ISO sensitivity to as low as it can go. The federal space agency says the Wolf Moon goes by many names, including the Candles Moon, Shakambhari Purnima, Paush Purnima, the Thaipusam festival Moon, the Ananda Pagoda Festival Moon, Duruthu Poya, and the Full Moon of Tu B’Shevat. NASA says full moons happen roughly every 29.5 days, the length of one lunar ...