Asteroid ‘on course to pulverise Earth’
NASA will soon launch a probe to study an asteroid that crosses Earth’s orbit every six years and could pulverise the planet.
Space
The unforeseen cost of Apollo missions
NEW research with major implications for space travel studied the Apollo astronauts and points to the potentially fatal consequences of deep space expeditions.
China launches new global space race
CHINA is about to launch a groundbreaking mission into space, sparking a new technology race with huge implications for us back on Earth.
Astronauts trained for war in space
AMERICA is bracing itself for war in space and has begun training U.S. air force personnel for science fiction-style cosmic conflicts, it has been revealed.
Proof Einstein’s ‘biggest blunder’ correct
EINSTEIN thought he’d made a mistake about the universe, but incredible new research into dark matter proves he was actually right.
Dark mass growing on the sun
NASA is monitoring an enormous dark region spreading across the surface of the sun, discovered by one of its spacecrafts.
Could this device detect alien life?
NASA scientists are about to send a handheld DNA sequencer into space — and they have big hopes for what it could find.
Dying stars may have given birth to humanity
BRILLIANT blasts of blue light. Tidal waves of cosmic radiation. But instead of destroying life on Earth, the death of several nearby stars may have supercharged the human race.
Mysterious ‘ice planet’ spotted
DUBBED RR245, the icy world is currently about nine billion kilometres from the Sun on the outer reaches of our solar system.
Juno spacecraft sends first images
THE NASA spacecraft Juno – out on a 20-month mission – has sent back the first pictures since arriving at Jupiter.
#Manhattanhenge shuts down NYC
A RARE solar phenomenon has made an appearance in New York City, with thousands stopping traffic to snap that perfect picture.
China’s space station ‘out of control’
CHINA has lost contact with its space station amid concerns its space hardware could hurtle back towards Earth in an uncontrolled fireball.
Why 2016 will have an extra second
A second is just a moment in real time, but adding it to the official clock can play havoc with computer networks.
New planet’s 24-hour daylight
IMAGINE a planet with triple sunrises and sunsets every day for part of the year, and non-stop daylight at other times.
Crazy slingshot move that got us to Jupiter
THE Juno mission to Jupiter used a “sling shot” technique featured in Hollywood blockbusters. But the move has origins further back than that.
‘Juno, welcome to Jupiter’
IT WAS the moment of truth for NASA scientists — and as the world watched, it didn’t disappoint.
Beyond help: 35 minutes in the vortex
AFTER five years of hard work it all comes down to these 35 minutes for the Juno spacecraft. If anything goes wrong, there is nothing anyone can do.
Woman charged over death threats
AN AMERICAN woman was handed a jail sentence in Spain Friday for threatening to kill cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
Rare look at our largest planet
A NASA spacecraft is nearing our largest planet and set to get a rare look beyond Jupiter’s clouds and send back close up views.
Why has the sun gone blank?
THE sun has gone completely “blank” for the second time this month. Scientists say that means big things for the weather.
Chilling predictions over lack of sun activity
THE sun has ‘gone blank’ for the second time this month, heralding the arrival of a mini Ice Age, it has been claimed.
China’s giant leap towards Mars
CHINA has recovered an experimental probe launched aboard a new rocket, marking another milestone in its ambitious space program to get to Mars by the end of the decade.
Oxygen found in distant, early galaxy
USING an array of antennas in the mountains of Chile, scientists have discovered the presence of oxygen that existed in a galaxy, far, far away.
Pizza, beer on menu after space voyage
AN International Space Station crew including an American, a Briton and a Russian has landed safely back on Earth.
More ripples detected in fabric of space
GRAVITATIONAL waves have been detected for the second time from black hole 21 times the mass of the sun.
‘Alien’ rock unlike anything seen before
SCIENTISTS in Sweden have unearthed a meteorite which doesn’t match anything in their labs. The chemical composition of the tennis-ball sized piece of space rock is positively ‘alien’.
CSIRO finds key to life in the universe
A MOLECULE identified by the Parkes Telescope some 26,000 light years away could steer astronomers towards intelligent life in the universe.
Scientists predict when we’ll make contact
IF you have dreams of humanity making contact with aliens you may be in for a longer wait than you hoped — if a new theory proposed by scientists is correct.
‘Supermassive’ black hole eating space
ASTRONOMERS have caught a glimpse of a “supermassive” black hole preparing to gorge itself on gas clouds about a billion light years from Earth.
How ‘Planet 9’ came to our solar system
SCIENTISTS in Sweden have used computer simulations to propose a new theory about how Planet 9 came to be a member of the solar system.
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