Space
Science breakthrough: Space satellite makes ‘incredible’ discovery of ‘deformed’ planet
A planet is round because of gravity; its gravity pulls equally from all sides, from the centre to the edges like the spokes of a bicycle wheel....
Solar storm warning: Stream of particles from Sun to lash Earth – impact time predicted
A stream of solar wind is possibly headed our way, carrying with it charged particles from the upper reaches of the Sun’s atmosphere....
Solar storm warning: Sun ejects 50,000 mile-long ‘canyon of hot plasma’ – impact predicted
A so-called coronal mass ejection (CME) was seen escaping the Sun on Wednesday and may deliver a “glancing blow” to the planet. CMEs...
Solar winds incoming! Space weather forecast predicts ‘unrest’ as hole opens in the Sun
Space weather forecasters expect the stream of charged particles and plasma to reach Earth by Wednesday, July 28. The solar winds are escaping from...
Mission Mars: UK scientists join NASA in daring venture to land humans on the Red Planet
Getting humans to Mars is one thing, but figuring out what to do once you get there is a completely different challenge. Under...
Virgin Galactic reaches edge of space as it prepares to take tourists to the skies
Two pilots were onboard the VSS Unity which blasted off from Spaceport America, New Mexico, for the first time. The flight saw a...
NASA and SpaceX scrub Crew Dragon undocking: Poor weather scuppers ISS return this weekend
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience was originally pencilled in to leave the orbital lab earlier this week but the mission keeps getting hit with delays....
Elon Musk issues warning over Mars mission – ‘a bunch of people will probably die’
The SpaceX founder has made no secret of his ambitions to colonise planets in the solar system with human settlements. The founding principle behind...
Black hole pictures: First-ever image of supmerassive black hole gets a polarising upgrade
Nothing escapes the clutches of a black hole’s crushing gravity, not even light. And yet astronomers behind the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team have pulled...
Water on Mars: Entire oceans could be ‘locked up’ in the Red Planet’s crust, NASA says
Mars is dead – plain and simple – but billions of years ago the bone-dry planet resembled a young Earth, with a lush...
