NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Friday, June 10, for the launch of the next cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The 25th cargo resupply services mission (SpaceX CRS-25) was earl… [+1850 chars]
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February 2021. Since then, it has been exploring Jezero Crater, which appears to have housed a river billions of years ago. On Earth, river sediments ofte… [+1236 chars]
The Juno spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Jupiter has beamed back data from its last close flyby of the planet revealing the colours of the planet. The largest planet in our solar system has l… [+2103 chars]
The director of the European Southern Observatory, the Spaniard Xavier Barcons said, "We will see something new, rare and extraordinary, in the centre of the galaxy." Huib Jan van Langevelde (project… [+8977 chars]
Posted: 11:34 a.m. EDT, June 3, 2022 | updated: 11:37 a.m. EDT, June 3, 2022 A new “super-Earth” four times larger than our planet has been seen orbiting a star just 36.5 light-years away. The exopl… [+5372 chars]
In early 2022, Indias first liquid-mirror telescope, which will observe asteroids, supernovae, space debris and all other celestial objects from an altitude of 2,450 metres in the Himalayas, saw its … [+5415 chars]
Using a network of 20 telescopes worldwide- The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN)- astronomers from Ohio State University have identified about 116,000 new variable stars. They later … [+2675 chars]
X-rays make it possible to explore inside human bodies or peer inside objects. The technology used to illuminate the detail in microscopically small structures is the same as that used in familiar si… [+2758 chars]
A team of scientists in the UK claimed to have discovered unusual radio signals from a graveyard of neutron stars. The research team at the University of Manchesters More Transients and Pulsars or Me… [+2245 chars]
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have captured an image that shows huge rings around a black hole. It’s a composite that shows the ring-encircled black hole in X-ra… [+810 chars]
Researchers using an innovative astrodynamics algorithm have uncovered over 100 asteroids that had gone undetected in archived images of the sky. Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the fo… [+2867 chars]
Black holes are generally thought to swallow all forms of matter and energy surrounding them. It has long been known, however, that they can also shed some of their mass through a process called supe… [+2728 chars]
