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]
Jupiter as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on its 44th perijove on August 17, 2022 and ... [+] post-processed by Kevin M. Gill. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill © CC BY On Wednesday las… [+3685 chars]
Here is a little time capsule story. On this day in 1977 a NASA rocket launched Voyager II, an unmanned 1,820-pound spacecraft, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Aboard Voyager II was a 12-inch LP ca… [+688 chars]
Sixty million years of climate change triggered the meteoric rise of reptiles around 250 million years ago, not a mass extinction of mammals as previously thought, a new Harvard University-led study … [+2791 chars]
How do we know that time exists? Our whole life is driven by the clock, but what it measures is not certain. How can we be sure that time really exists? It’s time to talk to expert Kazuya Koyama. I… [+3764 chars]
The final array will consist of thousands of dishes. As you can imagine, it takes time to build and set up such a complex system. The project is beginning with precursor facilities like MeerKAT, an a… [+1580 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]
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 new study, published in the August issue of the journal Astrobiology, has projected that Jupiters icy moon Europa has pure snow that rises underwater to generate the moons icy crust, rather than fa… [+1080 chars]
On June 13, the third major data release from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission revealed details about the past and future of our solar system’s star, the Sun, by using data collected by… [+7292 chars]
The early moments of the universe were turbulent and filled with hot and dense matter. Fluctuations in the early universe could have been great enough that stellar-mass pockets of matter collapsed … [+2995 chars]
