Statio Tianchuan: China's Official Chang'e 5 Moon Landing Site Has 7 Topographical Features

SPACE 07.09.2021 03:28 AM

Chang'e 5, China's moon sample and return mission, finally has a name that has been approved and made official. The site has been named Statio Tianchuan.

Venus, Mars, Moon Conjunction: Will They 'Kiss' Before Parting This Week?

07.09.2021 01:03 AM

Easily visible with the naked eye and observable only from earth, a conjunction occurs when two planets appear to have come close even though they remain far away from one another.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: First Time to Usher Perseverance in Hunting for Ancient Signs of Life at the Jezero Crater

07.09.2021 00:00 AM

Engineers recently pushed NASA's Ingenuity's limits further than ever as it ushered the Perseverance rover in its quest for ancient signs of life at Mars' Jezero Crater.

SpaceX Dragon Heads Back to Earth Carrying 3,000 Pounds of Cargo After Stormy Delay

07.08.2021 22:33 PM

SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon cargo ship is going home with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida's coast after being delayed due to Tropical Storm Elsa.

Scientists Discover Massive Galactic Structure in Space by Accident

07.08.2021 22:21 PM

Scientists have accidentally discovered a huge and previously undetected galactic structure that could change the way we think about how stars are made.

Death of a Star Unveils 13-Billion-Year Space Mystery

07.08.2021 10:20 AM

Astronomers detects a star in the Milky Way that was born shortly after the Big Bang. It was formed by the explosion of a massive fast-spinning star with a strong magnetic field.

Galactic Cosmic Rays Explained: Mysteries of How Heavy Elements Accelerate Revealed

07.08.2021 09:50 AM

Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute using NASA's MMS missions discovered how heavy elements in GCRs are accelerated by shockwaves.

Elon Musk's SpaceX Eyes Launching Giant SN20 by August; Is This Starship Rocket as Big as Statue of Liberty?

07.08.2021 02:37 AM

FCC said that Elon Musk's firm SpaceX is planning its first orbit launch. The SN20 Starship prototype will launch from Texas before a 'soft landing' off the coast of Hawaii.

Elon Musk Wants to Turn SpaceX Starship to a Giant Space Telescope; Is It Possible?

07.07.2021 23:59 PM

Elon Musk said that SpaceX Starship itself could serve as the "structure for a new giant telescope."

Hubble Space Telescope Suffers Most Serious Glitch in Over a Decade; NASA Aims to Fix It Safely, Instead of Quickly

07.07.2021 23:48 PM

The Hubble Space Telescope currently faces its most serious glitch in over a decade, and while NASA is too keen to fix this iconic observatory, the agency does not want to hurry the restoration process.

China Eyes Launching Rockets to Prevent Asteroid-Earth Collision

07.07.2021 23:11 PM

China has plans to launch a fleet of 900-tonne rockets into space by 2031 to divert an asteroid and avoid near-Earth collisions with our planet.

Methane Plumes on Enceladus: Could the Saturn Moon Host Life?

07.07.2021 08:04 AM

Scientists have found methane from a sample taken from Enceladus, one of the many moons of Saturn, and as the gas is formed, it raises a question: could there be life on the giant satellite?

100 Stellar Black Holes Found Hidden in Fluffy Star Cluster 80,000 Light-Years Away from Solar System

07.07.2021 06:50 AM

Researchers discovered 100 stellar-mass black holes in the heart of a fluffy star globular cluster by analyzing the net mass of the cluster system. The study reveals that roughly 20% of the cluster's mass is comprised of the force exhibited by black holes.

Is European Robotic Arm Ready for Space? Astronomers Explain How This Feature Works

07.07.2021 06:40 AM

Engineers installed ESA’s European Robotic Arm (ERA) onto the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) and it is now ready for its flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

Tropical Storm Elsa Hits Florida: SpaceX Dragon Undocking From International Space Station Delayed

07.07.2021 04:01 AM

NASA and SpaceX have delayed the departure of the SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon cargo ship from the International Space Station (ISS) as Tropical Storm Elsa approaches Florida.