The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Sunday in an historic launch from a NASA pad, depositing a spacecraft into orbit before successfully returning to earth as Elon Musk’s SpaceX moved to stake its claim to shuttling humans into space.
Our love of black holes continues to grow as our knowledge of these celestial bodies expands. The latest news is the discovery of a rare “middleweight” black hole, a relative newcomer to the black hole family.
International space law could prevent billionaires from extracting precious metals from the lunar surface
The constellation Canis Majoris, the ‘Big Dog’, is home to many fine open clusters of blue-white stars along the stubby Orion Arm of the Milky Way. There are some real gems here, including the modest but delightful open star cluster NGC 2362, a group that hosts some of the youngest-known stars. Centered on the bright star τ (tau) Canis Majoris, this cluster, in a telescope, looks like a large diamond set among many smaller blue-white gems.
It will look for life in the Jovian moon’s saltwater ocean.
Curiosity rover findings add to a puzzle about ancient Mars because the same rocks that indicate a lake was present also indicate there was very little carbon dioxide in the air to help keep a lake unfrozen.
Sulphuric rain is easy; not being cremated by 500°C or crushed by 90 atmospheres is hard.
New analysis of observations made by NASA’s MESSENGER mission reveal where the solar system’s innermost planet’s water ice is but not where it’s from.
A newly-investigated essay from 1939 reveals Churchill’s thoughts on E.T.
A cluster of recent meteorite impacts on Mars have been found, highlighting a deadly hazard for future Mars colonists.
