Space
Fly me to the Moon? Why the world should be wary of Elon Musk’s space race
Want to fly to the moon? Well, now you won’t have to bother with all those years of rigorous astronaut training – all you need is a huge wad of cash. Elon Musk, technopreneur, has built a small spaceship called Dragon and if you slap down enough money – maybe a...
The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe – False Vacuum
What if there is a way to destroy the universe so fundamentally that life as we know it will be impossible forever?
James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors Will Piece Together Cosmic Puzzles
The primary mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope consisting of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle piece standing in the massive clean room of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Appropriately, combined with the rest of the observatory, the mirrors will help piece together puzzles scientists have been trying to solve throughout the cosmos.
Changing Colors in Saturn’s North
These two natural color images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show the changing appearance of Saturn’s north polar region between 2012 and 2016.
A Dying Star Shooting Gigantic Balls Of Plasma Twice the Size of Mars
The NASA’s space telescope captured images of plasma ‘cannonballs’.
4 Astronomical Events You Don’t Want to Miss in November
Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus 30 years ago, but researchers are still making discoveries from the data it gathered then. A new study led by University of Idaho researchers suggests there could be two tiny, previously undiscovered moonlets orbiting near two of the planet’s rings.
How Long You Can Survive On Each Planet
We know how long a human being could survive on a summer day on Mars without a spacesuit. But what about the other planets in our solar system?
New Dwarf Planet Beyond Pluto Discovered
Astronomers find new dwarf planet in our Solar System. A new friend for Pluto. New dwarf planet located in the region of the solar system beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper Belt, discovered.
Gaia’s Billion-Star Map Hints At Treasures To Come
The first catalogue of more than a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia satellite was published today – the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date.