A handful of moon’s that brought by Neil Armstrong during the Lunar Apollo 11 mission was sold for $500,000 by an anonymous buyer, media agencies reported on Friday. The dust was exhibited by the wo… [+961 chars]
Published: 6:00am, 16 Apr, 2022 Updated: 6:32am, 16 Apr, 2022
Washington, April 15 NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter, originally expected to fly only five times, has aced its 25th flight on the Red Planet, setting new personal bests for speed and distance. Wei… [+1964 chars]
A little more than a month after observing gamma radiation from a nova burst in the RS Ophiuchi system, astronomers announced the detection of high energy cosmic rays as well, from the same system. R… [+2438 chars]
A butterfly-shaped stellar nursery twinkles in red and orange in a beautiful photo recently released by NASA. The agency's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the image of the aptly named Butterfly N… [+2117 chars]
The Mars lander InSight photographed an austere Martian sunrise earlier this week. The probe has called Mars home since 2018 and has taken thousands of images during its time there, while also collec… [+1876 chars]
The contraption known as the Antikythera mechanism, often dubbed the worlds first computer, was first turned on on 22 December 178 BC, claims a study published in preprint online journal arXiv. An el… [+5255 chars]
Seen nearly edgewise, the turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole takes on a crazy double-humped appearance. The black holes extreme gravity alters the paths of light coming from different… [+3399 chars]
A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held scientific mysteries, according to new research led … [+3000 chars]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Third time's a charm? Well, NASA and Boeing Space sure hope so as a new target launch date has been set for the previously plagued Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the In… [+2186 chars]
The Backyard Observatory Supernova Search (BOSS) Team has landed the 2022 Page Medal for their incredible contribution to space research by finding 200 confirmed supernova across the dark skies. BOS… [+2776 chars]
Astronomers have detected a powerful radiowave laser, known as a megamaser, in space. Pictured is an artist's illustration showing how the MeerKAT telescope detected this record-breaking megamaser. … [+29207 chars]
