The first all-private astronaut crew to fly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) headed for splashdown Monday off the coast of Florida, wrapping up a two-week mission that NASA has touted as … [+2867 chars]
ByUniversity of California - RiversideApril 25, 2022 A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the s… [+2201 chars]
New Delhi: NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope turns 32 years old today. Since its launch and deployment in 1990, Hubble has revolutionised astronomy. The telescope was deployed into Earth's orbit b… [+3508 chars]
In 1676, by studying the motion of Jupiter's moon Io, Danish astronomer Ole Rømer calculated that light travels at a finite speed. Two years later, building on data gathered by Rømer, Dutch mathemati… [+6818 chars]
ByEleni Ravanis, University of Hawaii at MnoaApril 25, 2022 This illustration depicts NASAs Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA We made it! Perseverance is at the delt… [+3585 chars]
Scientists who study stars have detected a previously unknown kind of event called a micronova. The event involves thermonuclear explosions that take place on a star called a white dwarf. The explos… [+3649 chars]
Sharing real-time information requires complex networks of systems. A promising approach for speeding up data storage devices consists of switching the magnetization, or the electrons' spin, of magne… [+3009 chars]
Space is full of mysteries. There is always something unusual lurking out in the deep depths of the mysterious space. With the advancement in technology, space agencies across the world unravel myste… [+1674 chars]
New Delhi: The rapid growth of the anthropogenic space object population, including satellite mega-constellations’ that are placed in low Earth orbit to deliver broadband internet and other services,… [+3070 chars]
A few years ago, Europe became one of the most tangible targets for searching for living things in our solar system. Despite its distance from the sun, this satellite is protected by a thick outer la… [+1606 chars]
Saturn's moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While these landscapes may look familiar, they are composed… [+6725 chars]
The earliest documented case of an aurora, the fleeting but brilliantly colored lights that sometimes illuminate the night sky, dates to the early 10th century B.C., a new study on an ancient Chinese… [+4324 chars]
