SpaceX launches Europe's Hera asteroid defense probe | Hurricane delays NASA's Europa Clipper launch on Oct. 10 | Space Quiz: What happened when NASA's DART probe reached asteroid Dimorphos?
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ESA's Hera spacecraft soared into a cloudy sky above Florida to begin a multimillion-mile trek across the solar system to the binary asteroid system Didymos, which became famous in September 2022 after NASA smacked its DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Mission) into Didymos' smaller companion, Dimorphos. Now, Hera will check out what remains.
The $5 billion Europa Clipper mission was scheduled to launch on Thursda, Oct. 10, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Florida's Atlantic Coast. But Hurricane Milton has nixed that plan.
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Out of the 184 days that NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson logged on her most recent mission on board the International Space Station, there are 31 minutes that stand out to her as being among her finest. But what they are might surprise you.
Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system and is often referred to as Earth's "evil twin." The two planets are similar in size and mass, with Venus only slightly more diminutive than Earth. Yet something seems to have gone drastically wrong in the development of Venus, leaving it quite hellish and inhospitable. There is a good chance that "something" is an extreme runaway greenhouse effect, the consequence of an overabundance of atmospheric greenhouse gases.
The outer crust of the dwarf planet Ceres, which at 588 miles (946 kilometers) across is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is likely made from a dirty frozen ocean, according to new computer models. "Ceres, we think, is therefore the most accessible icy world in the universe."
On Episode 131 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik tackle a question that rivals the meaning of life itself: which is better, Star Trek or Star Wars? Of course, they are very different, and that's really the core of it.
