Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China’s largest rockets to practice turning away a sizable asteroid – a technique that may eventually be crucial if a killer rock is on a collision course with Earth.
The UAE’s Mars orbiter spied discrete auroras hovering over the last vestiges of the Red Planet’s decaying magnetic field.
For NASA, taking some risk has paid off handsomely.
With a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus has been left alone by space agencies for a decade. Now we are about to learn more about its climate – and the chances of life on other planets
Astronomers are revelling at the discovery of a white dwarf that is the largest ever seen. White dwarfs are the collapsed remnants of stars, and this latest find is roughly the size of the Moon and 1.35 times more massive than the Sun. Researchers at the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory made the discovery. To help characterize the dead star, astronomers turned to the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea and University of Hawaiʻi’s Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) on Haleakalā, Maui.
Two astronauts work for seven hours outside Tiangong station, in first of two spacewalks planned for mission
For the first time, astronomers have observed black holes gobbling up neutron stars “like Pac Man.”
THE SAMPLES ARE AN INDICATION THAT MARS MAY HAVE HAD HOSPITABLE CONDITIONS FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS.
On Asteroid Day, a reminder. The ones to worry about are almost never the ones in the alarmist headlines.
The European Space Agency hopes to hire and launch the world’s first physically disabled astronaut and several hundred would-be para-astronauts have already applied for the role, ESA head Josef Aschbacher told Reuters on Friday.
