China will aim to crash a spaceship into an asteroid as part of plans for a planetary defence system that could one day stop a space rock smashing into Earth. The deflection mission, which is intend… [+10266 chars]
ByMikayla Mace Kelley, University of ArizonaApril 27, 2022 This is an artists illustration of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft firing thrusters near the surface of the asteroid Apophis. Credit: Heather Rop… [+6162 chars]
The sun is moving into the hyperactive phase of its roughly 11-year cycle when sunspots, solar flares and all other sorts of tumultuous heliocentric happenings become more common. Case in point: A vo… [+1883 chars]
Remains of a giant sea monster, that lived 205 million years ago, have been found 9,000 feet above sea level in the Swiss Alps by a team of archaeologists. The marine monster grew to a length of 65… [+6005 chars]
China will aim to crash a spaceship into an asteroid as part of plans for a planetary defence system that could one day stop a space rock smashing into Earth. The deflection mission, which is intend… [+10266 chars]
Published: 11:00pm, 27 Apr, 2022 Updated: 11:15pm, 27 Apr, 2022
Published: 11:00pm, 27 Apr, 2022 Updated: 11:15pm, 27 Apr, 2022
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency's Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and… [+5256 chars]
Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and docked their SpaceX capsule, two days after the last crew to… [+2615 chars]
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musks rocket company SpaceX has launched four astronauts into orbit as part of a NASA mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The astronauts were due to arriv… [+2650 chars]
Ever smaller and more intricatewithout miniaturization, we wouldn't have the components today that are required for high-performance laptops, compact smartphones or high-resolution endoscopes. Resear… [+3491 chars]
As future Artemis astronauts explore the moon, a new high-tech backpack will assist their mapping as they step into the unknown. NASA does have high-definition lunar maps of the surface, from orbit,… [+3012 chars]
