NASA Cancels Its Rescue Mission for the Aging Swift Telescope
The Swift space observatory has been in operation since 2004. It specializes in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most…
Stellar spin explains fading black hole light flares
A hydrodynamical simulation of a star being ripped apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole.…
Huge space radars to track tiny objects could be assembled by robots
Space is becoming increasingly crowded, and tracking the objects orbiting Earth is becoming a harder engineering problem. NASA…
Nasa’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess
a new visualisation of Earth looks nothing like the Blue Marble seen from space. Nasa has released a…
Hematite Hidden for Decades in Spirit’s Archive Rewrites Mars Water History
The answer was already on Earth. Nearly 5 terabytes of raw data from NASA’s Spirit rover — filed…
European Designer Proposes 3D Printing A Moon Temple On Astronaut Base
The Moon Temple, designed by Jorge Mañes Rubio as a centerpiece for Moon Base Alpha, would be a…
The future of the UK’s renowned Lovell radio telescope is in question after a funding cut | World News
LONDON (AP) — Scientists have reacted with alarm to news that the British government will cut funding to…
Super-Speed AI Helps Astronomers Find Cosmic Trove Of New Exoplanets
Seven Earth doppelgängers circle the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one of the most astonishing exosolar systems discovered so…
In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.
The upcoming Dragonfly mission is unlike any planetary mission NASA has ever attempted. Instead of another slow-moving rover,…
Scientists left ‘Moon cement’ outside the ISS for six months; it came back up to 35% stronger, boosting plans for a Moon base |
When planning to shift to the Moon, where would humans live? Prior to the move, one would have…
Life-friendly world? In first, atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone
A team of scientists says they have, for the first time, discovered an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet…
China’s Tianwen-1 Captures Rare Close-Up Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
An artist’s impression of 3I/ATLAS is shown as it passes near the Sun. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M.Weiss China’s Tianwen-1…