Outer space

One of the last acts of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before its death plunge into Saturn’s hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between the planet and its rings and let them tug it around, essentially acting as a gravity probe.…

The universe is still full of mystery! The history of general relativity as a science is actually rather dismal. These elusive ripples in the fabric of space – time were first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago. The galaxy…

Astronomers have long predicted that as many as 20,000 black holes could be hiding in our galaxy’s center, but so far no one has been able to spot them. For the first time, scientists have detected a gravitational wave produced by…

The rover touched the lunar surface at 10:22pm ( local time ) on Thursday, leaving a trace on the soft, snow-like surface. After reaching a predetermined point, the Yutu-2 rover has entered a standby mode to protect itself from temperatures…

Dwarf galaxies, of course, are much smaller galaxies that can be found orbiting larger ones around them. However, it is thought that the nature of dark matter may be better understood by looking at the formation of stars within galaxies.…

“The space dream is part of the dream to make China stronger”, President Xi Jinping said after becoming the country’s leader in 2013. The China NSA said the 10:26 a. m. touchdown of the Chang’e 4 craft has “opened up…

Would that prove life exists there? Not necessarily, says a new study. The research team performed the simulation experiments in a specially designed Planetary HAZE ( PHAZER ) chamber in the lab of Sarah Hörst, assistant professor of Earth and…

Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a few years ago the UNIGE astronomers discovered a warm Neptune-sized planet which was losing its atmosphere. The two planets are roughly 2.3 million miles ( 3.7 million km ) from their star-one-tenth…

NASA has built and tested space probes before, but none of them were destined to get as close to the Sun as Parker will, creating new challenges for testing the probe. Sad to see that 28 years later, the news…

By the time New Horizons travels the remaining 80 million miles and reaches Ultima Thule on January 1, it will be more than 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. “It’s really a puzzle”, New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the…