‘You’re hit with a slam of shadow’: Nasa’s air mission to capture rare eclipse data | Solar eclipses
After lunch on Wednesday, two Nasa aviators will climb into a research plane and take off from Keflavik…
On this day in space! Aug. 9, 1976: Soviet Luna 24 sample return probe launches to the moon
On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic…
IN-SPACe moves to privatise operations of Rs 986 crore spaceport
To identify a suitable industry partner, IN-SPACe has issued an expression of interest (EoI) inviting proposals from eligible…
In 1972, an Apollo 16 astronaut left his family photograph on the Moon: The message identifies them as visitors “from planet Earth”
The photo left behind by the astronaut | Wikimedia Commons Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left something deeply…
Voyager 2 may have caught Uranus on a freak day — a 2024 reanalysis suggests the 1986 flyby that shaped four decades of understanding arrived during a compressed state estimated to occur only about 4% of the time
In January 1986, Voyager 2 swept past Uranus and gathered the only close-up measurements humanity has ever taken…
‘It’s very moving’: The growth of dark sky tourism in Ireland as enthusiasts prepare for solar eclipse – The Irish Times
In a world of screens and urban haze, more people are finding something restorative in the act of…
Want to see a solar eclipse and a meteor shower in one day? US astronomer reveals all you should know to enjoy the stargazing event of the year
August will bring two opportunities to look skyward as a solar eclipse and the annual Perseid meteor shower…
Inside the mad world of eclipse hunters – and where to see it in Spain
It was the gift of a small telescope at the age of seven which sparked Alberto Villa’s fascination…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 and kept going, and in January 2019 it photographed a small icy world called Arrokoth four billion miles from the Sun, the most distant object ever visited, shaped like two snowballs gently stuck together since the solar system’s birth
At 5:33 UTC on 1 January 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft passed roughly 3,500 kilometres from a small…
What it’s like to chase solar eclipses around the world
The path of totality crosses the western part of Iceland and they hope to find a spot in…
Uranus rotates almost completely on its side, tipped by 97.77 degrees, most likely by a giant impact billions of years ago — but its tilted moons keep the case from being closed
Uranus is usually described as the planet that was knocked over. Its spin axis is tilted by 97.77…
Rocket Lab Just Unveiled a Game-Changing Technology Worth Watching
Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB), a developer of reusable orbital rockets, recently secured at $397 million contract from the…