NEW DELHI — India on Wednesday made history as it became the first country in the…
Tag: Space
What explains the race among nations to reach the moon’s south pole?
India’s space agency is attempting to land a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole, a mission…
We might have accidentally killed the only life we ever found on Mars nearly fifty years ago
The Viking lander experiments In the mid-1970s, NASA sent two Viking landers to the surface of…
Rock that punched hole in New Jersey house confirmed to be 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite
A metallic-looking rock that smashed through the roof of a residential home in New Jersey’s Hopewell…
Wall of Green Lasers Blankets Sky in Hawai’i, Likely From Chinese Satellite
Last month, a camera from a telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i’s tallest mountain, captured something eerie:…
NASA says its asteroid defense test was a success
NASA says its mission to knock an asteroid off course — a test of planetary defense…
SpinLaunch just catapulted a NASA payload into the sky for the first time
U.S. startup SpinLaunch — the company that aims to disrupt the rapidly-growing satellite launch industry by…
‘Shiny, sparkly object’ in James Webb space image
The picture, presented to the world in July by US President Joe Biden, shows a fantastically deep…
Dimorphos: Nasa flies spacecraft into asteroid in direct hit
The American space agency’s Dart probe has smashed into an asteroid, destroying itself in the process.…
Move over, Bruce Willis: NASA is shoving an asteroid to test planetary defense
Nuclear bombs. That’s the go-to answer for incoming space objects like asteroids and comets, as far…
The largest commercial communications array ever has just launched. Expect to see it – it’s huge and bright
On the weekend SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a giant satellite into space. Called BlueWalker 3,…
High-flying experiment: Do stem cells grow better in space?
Researcher Dhruv Sareen’s own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether…