NASA Is Building “Air Traffic Control” for the Moon
At nearly 240,000 miles from Earth, the moon is getting its first spaceport, Gateway — and engineers developed…
New NASA telescope seeks fate of the universe and ‘Earth twins’
NASA is set to launch its latest multi-billion-dollar telescope Sunday morning, as scientists gather at Florida’s Space Coast…
In 1984, NASA sent 3,301 bees into Space to test how they built honeycomb without gravity; from hitting on walls to building 200cm honeycomb; highlights of 7-day mission
AI-generated image for representation purpose Thousands of honeybees travelled into space aboard NASA‘s Space Shuttle Discovery in 1984…
Webb Find Hidden Stars Making Early Galaxies Far More Massive than Thought
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a surprisingly large population of faint, low-mass stars…
Mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ Could Be Tiny Galaxies with Giant Black Holes at Their Hearts
The mysterious objects spotted in the early Universe may not be isolated points of light after all. A…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Spots Phobos Crossing the Sun
Perseverance has caught the silhouette of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons, sweeping across the solar disk…
NASA’s Voyager Probes: See the Best Photos As 49-Year Trek Nears End
Voyager 2, a pioneer in outer solar system exploration, left Earth for interstellar space 49 years ago, on…
In 1969, an astronaut pointed Apollo 12’s camera at the sun and accidentally killed the live moon broadcast |
Imagine finally getting a colour television camera onto the Moon, knowing millions of people back on Earth were…
Apollo 15 astronauts collected tiny green glass beads from the Moon in 1971; more than 35 years later scientists found evidence of water inside, changing what we knew about the lunar interior
Representative Image (Image Credit: Canva) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin noticed something unusual…
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…
NASA’s nuclear Dragonfly copter to search for signs of life on Titan: ‘A lot’s riding on it’
LAUREL, Md. — Ralph Lorenz dreamed up the idea of flying a helicopter through Titan’s thick methane-laden atmosphere back in…
NASA-led study shows some Earth microbes could survive on the moon
Washington – The moon is, to put it mildly, an inhospitable place for people and other living organisms…