Elon Musk has announced plans to colonize Mars in the near future and NASA is planning a manned mission to the red planet in the 2030’s, but for some reason we aren’t talking about Venus.
The universe is not spinning or stretched in any particular direction, according to the most stringent test yet.
Two’s company, but three might not always be a crowd — at least in space.
The Chinese space station Tiangong 1 is indeed failing and is slowly headed towards the Earth. While China’s first space laboratory will make a fiery reentry in the second half of 2017, its replacement has already left Earth, indicated Chinese officials.
A NASA plan to lasso a piece of an asteroid and haul it closer to Earth could face a threat from the US Congress. A bipartisan spending bill introduced in the Senate this week has harsh words about the proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission, which is meant to be a sort of dry run for a future human mission to Mars.
Until recently, we’ve never seen the planet Saturn from the dark side of it, but now Cassini has given us a beautiful sight of a back-lit Saturn.
After traveling for 37 years, Voyager I is recording pulses from the sun that confirm it has entered a different region near the edge of the solar system called interstellar space.
The spacefaring nations of the world are competing with private companies to build an economy in orbit, colonize the moon, and exploit resources from passing asteroids, but to reach other planets something more is needed.
There’s a party in the galactic centre. We may have found the first solid evidence of a dense conference of stars around the Milky Way’s heart, which may one day help us observe the supermassive black hole living there.
New close-up photos of Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, show its mysterious and massive dunes in more detail than ever before.
