A supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is spinning so fast it’s changing space-time. The black hole, called Sagittarius A*, sits 26,000 light years away from Earth and is dragging surrounding space-time with it, squishing it like a football. Sagittarius A*’s quick rotation is significant because it means a large portion of … Read more
America is set to land a craft on the moon in January, marking the first touchdown on the lunar surface since the last Apollo mission more than 50 years ago. Humans will not be making the journey, but a six-foot-tall lander called Peregrine is set to launch on Christmas Eve at 1:50am ET and arrive … Read more
A laser beamed from over 10 million miles away has just struck Earth. But unlike the movie Independence Day, this laser is perfectly harmless – and NASA says aliens aren’t to blame. The laser was beamed towards Earth by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is currently over 10 million miles (16 million kilometres) away from Earth. … Read more
Flat Earther spends $20,000 on DIY experiment that accidentally proved the planet is ROUND By Katherine Lawton Published: 15:19 BST, 16 April 2023 | Updated: 21:31 BST, 17 April 2023 A Flat Earther spent a staggering $20,000 on a DIY experiment that accidentally proved the planet is round. He was in the middle of filming … Read more
It’s a Mars bear! Image resembling Paddington is seen on the surface of the Red Planet A Nasa orbiter 155 miles above Mars took a picture of a bear etched into planet The spacecraft used a very powerful HiRISE camera to capture the image Nasa said it could actually be a buried impact crater, volcanic … Read more
NASA has recruited the best of the best to unravel the mysteries of unexplained natural phenomena seen in the skies with the hopes of solving hundreds of sightings. Astronaut Scott Kelly, who is famously known for spending nearly a year in space, is one of 16 team members who will comb through unclassified data of … Read more
NASA‘s Juno spacecraft has taken its first picture of Jupiter‘s moon Europa — capturing the ice-encrusted surface in extraordinary detail. The image is the closest look at Europa that any spacecraft has provided in more than 20 years, when the US space agency’s Galileo came within 218 miles (351 km) of the surface in January 2000. … Read more
It has been searching for clues about possible ancient alien life on Mars. And now NASA‘s Perseverance rover has discovered organic matter ‘treasure’ that could help determine if extraterrestrials did in fact ever exist on the Red Planet. The collection of organic matter from the Jezero Crater, which likely once held a lake and the delta that … Read more
DELAYED ARTEMIS 1 LAUNCH – RECAP: Technical issues force NASA to CALL OFF plans to fire Space Launch System to the moon By Sam Tonkin and Jamie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 12:38 BST, 29 August 2022 | Updated: 15:43 BST, 29 August 2022 NASA has been forced to call off the planned launch of its … Read more
Deflecting an asteroid such as Bennu, which has a small chance of hitting Earth in about a century and a half, could require multiple small impacts from some sort of massive human-made deflection device, according to experts. Scientists in California have been firing projectiles at meteorites to simulate the best methods of altering the course … Read more
NASA revealed an incredible video of the moon that zooms in on Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s landing and their tracks on the lunar surface – still visible 53 years after the Apollo 11 landing. ‘Today marks the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing – the first time that humans stepped on the surface … Read more
Flight one: April 19, 2021 with a vertical takeoff up to 9.8ft, stationary hover and a landing Flight two: April 22, 2021 with a vertical takeoff up to 16ft, hover, then shift westward for 14ft before returning and landing Flight three: April 25, 2021 with a vertical takeoff up to 16ft, hover, shift northwards for 328ft … Read more
Three wealthy investors spent 18 days in space, including two weeks on the International Space Station. They are: López-Alegría (left) will serve as the commander of the mission and Connor (right) as pilot Larry Connor, 72, was the Ax-1 mission pilot for the trip. Connor was born in 1950 in Albany, New York, and graduated from … Read more