Even before we had sophisticated technology at hand, we have been keen to look at the skies to uncover its secrets. As tech developed, we realised that what we could see was just a fraction of what w… [+1141 chars]
On December 25th last the James Webb Space Telescope JWST for short was finally propelled into the heavens on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. The telescope is the successor to Hubble, which h… [+6518 chars]
It was only last week the sun released a coronal mass ejection (CME) blast towards Earth, causing moderate geomagnetic storms. Now, observatories have honed in on an active sunspot region that has p… [+1504 chars]
A team of scientists found NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of space dust littered throughout dozens of nearby planetary systems' habitable zones, or t… [+5745 chars]
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(MENAFN- The Conversation) The UK government is reportedly considering a £16 billion proposal to build a solar power station in space. Yes, you read that right. Space-based solar power is one of … [+5876 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has done it again and snapped an awe-inspiring photo of yet another galaxy far, far away. Specifically, the space telescope was able to capture the center of a barred spi… [+2570 chars]
A team of scientists from University of Waterloo have come up with an exciting new theory that explains the origin of the universe, its expansion, and the presence of dark matter. It involves the exi… [+3617 chars]
Many TV shows and movies will tell you that the human species can be easily felled by their sex drive. Sometimes, pheromones just make you do stupid things. But it turns out, humans are not unique in… [+3290 chars]
A theorized huge, ninth planet beyond the orbit of Neptune once again wasn't found in a new survey of the solar system's outer reaches. Astronomers scanned a large portion of the sky using the 6-met… [+3318 chars]
The Ingenuity helicopter made aviation history on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter was a huge que… [+1796 chars]
A team of scientists found NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of space dust littered throughout dozens of nearby planetary systems' habitable zones, or t… [+5745 chars]