Astronomers have detected one of the biggest black hole jets in the sky
Aug 21, 2022 17:29 pm UTC| Science
Astronomers at Western Sydney University have discovered one of the biggest black hole jets in the sky. Spanning more than a million light years from end to end, the jet shoots away from a black hole with enormous...
Most distant star to date spotted – but how much further back in time could we see?
Apr 05, 2022 11:56 am UTC| Science
The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the most distant star ever seen Earendel, meaning morning star. Even though Earendel is 50 times the mass of the Sun, and millions of times brighter, we would not normally be able...
Feb 26, 2022 10:01 am UTC| Science
New U.S. sanctions on Russia will encompass Russias space agency, Roscosmos, according to a speech U.S. President Joe Biden gave on Feb. 24, 2022. In response to these sanctions, the head of Roscosmos on the same day...
Asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit discovered – could it help future space missions?
Feb 04, 2022 02:24 am UTC| Science
Research has shown that the Earth trails an asteroid barely a kilometre across in its orbit about the Sun only the second such body to have ever been spotted. It goes round the Sun on average two months ahead of the...
A rogue rocket is on course to crash into the Moon. It won't be the first
Feb 02, 2022 09:43 am UTC| Science
In a few weeks time, a rocket launched in 2015 is expected to crash into the Moon. The fast-moving piece of space junk is the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which hoisted the Deep Space Climate Observatory...
The Moon's top layer alone has enough oxygen to sustain 8 billion people for 100,000 years
Nov 13, 2021 07:44 am UTC| Science
Alongside advances in space exploration, weve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource utilisation. And at the forefront of these efforts has been a laser-sharp...
A new era of planetary exploration: what we discovered on the far side of the Moon
Nov 13, 2021 07:34 am UTC| Science
Seven months after it was launched, the US robotic rover Perseverance successfully landed on Mars on February 18 2021. The landing was part of the mission Mars2020 and was viewed live by millions of people worldwide,...
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