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]
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]
Published: 11:00pm, 27 Apr, 2022 Updated: 11:15pm, 27 Apr, 2022
iStockphoto <ul><li>“Potentially hazardous” Asteroid 418135 (2008 AG33) will fly into Earth’s orbit on Thursday, April 28, says NASA.</li><li>Asteroid 418135 could be about twice the size of the Emp… [+1991 chars]
In physics, as in life, it's always good to look at things from different perspectives. Since the beginning of quantum physics, how light moves and interacts with matter around it has mostly been de… [+6264 chars]
The building blocks of life may have come from outer space. Meteorite Life Scientists have discovered the building blocks of DNA in meteorites that landed in North America and Australia, Reuters re… [+2029 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]
Last week, NASA's Perseverance Rover captured a gorgeous view of Phobos eclipsing the Sun, from the surface of Mars. From the point of view of any Martian microbes lurking out there, the eclipse may … [+2193 chars]
At first glance, it looks just like our own northern lights on Earth. But this aurora is over 55 million kilometers (40 million miles) away on Mars. And the researchers who spotted it say it is somet… [+6919 chars]
SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Wednesday, less than two days after completing a flight chartered by millionaires.Its the first NASA crew comprised equa… [+2966 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]
