We are all suckers for a pretty moon, but this news has us in much anticipation for what celestial encounter we might have. Stargazers all over the world are going to be looking up for this 'Blood M… [+1808 chars]
There's been discussion about which human-made objects can be "seen from space." If you have a good enough zoom lens, you can spot even fairly small things, like a SpaceX Crew Dragon on a Falcon 9 ro… [+1444 chars]
image: Left: Scheme of the kinetochore organization with the CCAN subcomplexes binding to the centromere protein A (CENP-A). Right: Model of the surface of the CCANs 16 components organized in differ… [+2503 chars]
Asteroid 388945 will pass us from a distance of about 2.5 million miles away. Space scientists have warned that a huge asteroid is heading towards the Earth. According to American space agency NASA … [+1853 chars]
THE Sun may surprise us with a solar storm this Friday the 13th. After a week of multiple eruptions on the Sun, space weather experts think we could expect a "glancing blow" from another CME today. … [+2156 chars]
The Mars water theory is getting more and more exciting! Earlier, it was believed that Mars carried water in the liquid form about 3 billion years ago, when the second geological age of the planet, k… [+2163 chars]
Jammu and Kashmir govt constitutes SIT to investigate Rahul Bhat killing, announces job for his wife, educational expenses for daughter
At first glance, a 51-ion system may appear to be easy to use. But even if these charged atoms are only changed back and forth between two states, the result is more than two quadrillion (1015) diffe… [+3278 chars]
Three years ago, scientists used a telescope the size of Earth to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. Now, they've done it again — this time, closer to home, and of a very different invisib… [+5454 chars]
Placeholder while article actions load If it flew, and that was very much a big if, the little helicopter would take to the skies on Mars five times max over a period of 31 days. But over the past … [+9421 chars]
At simultaneous press conferences around the world on Thursday (12 May), including at the Wits Planetarium at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, astronomers have unveiled the first im… [+5222 chars]
Good morning, gentle reader, and welcome to your Friday roundup of the best stories and images from This Week in Space. This week, it’s all good news. The James Webb Space Telescope is fully aligned … [+6975 chars]