Astronomers have spotted an enormous and mysterious object more than a million light-years across, called an odd radio circle (ORC). ORCs were first identified in 2019, and now researchers have relea… [+2184 chars]
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The Solar Orbiter, which is jointly managed by both NASA and European Space Agency (ESA), has created history. The spacecraft has taken the closest-ever photo of the Sun. The image showcases the star… [+2970 chars]
On 18 February, ESA’s Gaia observatory snapped NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Gaia arrived in orbits around the Lagrange point 2 (L2) in 2014, whereas Webb arrived in the orbits around the … [+1557 chars]
An announcement regarding the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) program will drop on Wednesday, March 30th. NASA has promised that the "exciting new observation" by Hubble will be "one for the record boo… [+765 chars]
The long process of getting the James Webb Space Telescope ready for science operations continues, with the ongoing alignment of three of its instruments. Webb recently reached the major milestone o… [+2485 chars]
Washington: NASA said it has ordered six additional resupply missions from SpaceX under its Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract and also placed an order for six more missions with aerospa… [+1372 chars]
Jessica Watkins, a planetary scientist and NASA astronaut, will travel to the International Space Station on April 15 and will most likely be in space when the agencys Artemis 1 mission to the moon l… [+5579 chars]
This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary, and then in through the aft optics assembly where t… [+4807 chars]
In the past 24 hours, people uploaded more than 720,000 hours' worth of footage onto YouTube. According to calculations made a few years ago by University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson, this… [+4214 chars]
As China considers plans to visit Earths other planetary neighbour, a SECOND Space Race could erupt. Following Nasas announcement that two probes will be sent to Venus before the end of the decade, … [+2204 chars]
Collecting satellite data for research is a group effort thanks to this app developed for Android users. Camaliot is a campaign funded by the European Space Agency, and its first project focuses on m… [+5214 chars]
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