Forty-five years ago, on Aug. 20, 1977, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a Titan III-Centaur rocket, embarking on a "grand tour" of the solar system that would in… [+7348 chars]
Nothing lasts forever, including the stars in our night sky. One of the brighter and more notable stars in our sky is Betelgeuse, the bright red supergiant in the shoulder of Orion. In late 2019, as… [+4622 chars]
There is no limit to what we can gaze at into the Universe as the expanse is unimaginably huge. All we can do is improve the way we look at it through our lenses and marvel at the beauty as we unders… [+1616 chars]
Our Sun is doomed. Billions of years from now, the Sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and swell to a red giant before becoming a white dwarf. Its a well-known story, and one astronomer has understo… [+3603 chars]
Some 5,000 lightyears away sits a fiery red nebula in the shape of a beautiful rose. Peering into the night skies will reveal a plethora of shapes and figures that are beyond one's imagination. The … [+3546 chars]
At 6:28 a.m. EDT on Aug. 21, 1972, NASA's Copernicus satellite, the heaviest and most complex space telescope of its time, lit up the sky as it ascended into orbit from Launch Complex 36B at what is … [+8199 chars]
Launching in 2029, the European Space Agency's Ariel spacecraft, short for Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, will perform a large-scale survey of exoplanets - planets outsid… [+1933 chars]
Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveyev will step outside the International Space Station (ISS) again on September 2 after aborting their spacewalk due to a recent mishap, TASS News reported. Sch… [+2346 chars]
A biotechnology company based in Israel wants to replicate a recent experiment that successfully created an artificial mouse embryo from stem cells only this time with human cells. Scientists at Wei… [+2314 chars]
Washington: The US space agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024. Each region… [+2717 chars]
The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped the seabed, and ancient sediments beneath, we discovered what looks like an asteroi… [+6926 chars]
At a time when astronomers around the world are obsessed with new ways of looking at the distant universe, experiments on the International Space Station have given researchers at Cornell University … [+5013 chars]
