Yet another cloud of space debris has appeared in orbit around Earth. This particular cloud was birthed by the explosion of an old Russian rocket motor. Currently, the U.S. Space Force’s 18th Space S… [+2874 chars]
THE European Space Agency has asked the public to assess photos of a comet in a 'cosmic game of spot the difference'. On Thursday, the ESA revealed Rosetta Zoo, a citizen science project launched wi… [+2791 chars]
Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself: is it worth it? NASA and the German Aerospace Center did, and decided that the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) — which is a plan… [+5673 chars]
International Astronomy Day is observed two times a year. While one is celebrated in Spring and the other one is in Autumn. International Astronomy Day is observed two times a year. While one is ce… [+1941 chars]
Ever wonder what happened to all those collections of rocks and dust the Apollo astronauts brought back from the Moon? Some of those lunar samples were studied right away. Others made their way into … [+5228 chars]
Scientists have found strange aurorae in the Martian sky. Yep, the Red Planet and Earth's immediate neighbour in the solar system also experiences aurorae like our planet... although the ones on Mars… [+2212 chars]
image: Declining ocean memory between the present and the end of the 21st century--blue indicates decline, red indicates increase in memory.view more Credit: Shi, et al. (2022) Using future projec… [+4634 chars]
By positioning the appropriate material at the appropriate angle, scientists from Cornell University were able to discover a way to switch the magnetization in a ferromagnet’s thin layers — an approa… [+5754 chars]
April marked Expedition 67’s first full month aboard the International Space Station, with the outpost’s crew receiving visitors in the form of the Axiom-1 mission before Crew Dragon Freedom arrived … [+11993 chars]
(MENAFN- The Conversation) As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked isWhen are you going to find something?. Resisting the t… [+6339 chars]
Hello and welcome to This Week in Space, our weekly roundup of all the space news that’s fit to print — or at least, distract you from doomscrolling. First off, May the Fourth be with you: this week… [+6598 chars]
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