Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei made the revelation during a recent interview when he talked about the experiences of his 21-hour space mission aboard the Shenzhen 5 in 2003.
By studying the light emitted from an extraordinarily dense and strongly magnetized neutron star using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers may have found the first observational indications of a strange quantum effect, first predicted in the 1930s. The polarization of the observed light suggests that the empty space around the neutron star is subject to a quantum effect known as vacuum birefringence.
German Xprize team sets its sights on a vintage moon buggy
NASA’s Saturn-orbiting spacecraft, Cassini, has begun an unprecedented mission to skim the planet’s rings.
This month, a lot is happening in the mesosphere.
The Parkes Observatory in Australia had detected the blip of radio waves, and everyone is trying to figure out what this signal could mean.
Pictures from NASA’s Spirit Rover suggest that ancient life on Mars may have been involved in the building of silica deposits.
Soon Belgium will enter the space race as The Interfederal Space Agency of Belgium (ISAB), inspired by the popular comic-strip hero Tintin.
A photo from NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars set the Internet abuzz this week with claims that the robot had found a “thigh bone” on the Red Planet. But not so fast. That so-called bone? Just a weathered Martian rock, NASA says.
Pictures taken by a NASA satellite show a black spot where the Schiaparelli lander was meant to touch down Wednesday.
