Conceptual drawing of a Mars Sample Retrieval Lander. (Image credit: NASA) The robotic return of pristine samples from the surface of Mars has been a holy grail goal of Red Planet investigators for … [+10916 chars]
A giant 1,600-foot wide asteroid, which is larger than the Empire State Building in New York City, will come dangerously close to Earth in 72 hours, NASA scientists have predicted. The space rock de… [+1325 chars]
NASA has made a fascinating discovery. It has found fragments of the same asteroid which struck the Earth 66 million years ago to destroy dinosaurs and start a mini ice age. The finding is not only s… [+2243 chars]
Boeing's Starliner capsule is ready to launch again. During a flight readiness review Wednesday (May 11), NASA cleared Starliner to launch on Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), a crucial uncrewed missio… [+7619 chars]
Astronomers in Germany have spotted a fiery 'nova explosion' from a white dwarf for the very first time. Researchers observed the event, thanks to data from the joint German-Russian eROSITA X-ray te… [+8544 chars]
Is there sound in space? New audio released from NASA provides some insight – and the answer is haunting. The audio, released on May 4, is that of a black hole from the center of the Perseus galaxy… [+2397 chars]
Members of NASAs Crew-4 arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday April 27 to begin their four-and-a-half month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. The new crew members are settling in… [+321 chars]
Friday, 13 May 2022, 3:09 pmPress Release: University of Canterbury An international team, including University of Canterbury Associate Professor Wolfgang Rack and researchers from Cambridge and … [+4909 chars]
The world's first image of the chaotic supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy doesn't portray a voracious cosmic destroyer but what astronomers are calling a "gentle giant"… [+2852 chars]
A purely mechanical method can produce a novel, more sustainable fertiliser in a less polluting way. That is the result of a method optimised at DESY's light source PETRA III. An international team u… [+7036 chars]
NASA's new space telescope is in the home stretch of testing, with science observations expected to begin in July, astronomers said Monday. The James Webb Space Telescope beamed back the latest test … [+1815 chars]
On July 7, 2020, the X-ray instrument eROSITA captured an astronomical event that until then had only been theorized and never seen. It saw the detonation of a nova on a white dwarf star, which produ… [+4578 chars]
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