Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore must have heaved a sigh of relief when they opened the hatch and floated into…
Browsing: space
Our Sun drives a constant outward flow of plasma, or ionized gas, called the solar wind, which envelops our solar…
A European spacecraft is about to zip by both Earth and the Moon in the space of 24 hours. In…
Giant black holes in the centres of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby…
The private spacewalk that is the sexiest feature of the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission, being facilitated by SpaceX and a…
Two astronauts marooned in space may sound like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, but for two NASA crew members, it is…
A supermoon may sound exciting, but it’s a modest coincidence. As the Moon orbits Earth, its distance from us varies from 357,000…
Launched in 2011, NASA’s NEOWISE mission operated in Earth’s orbit until late last week. It detected more than 3,000 near-Earth objects or NEOs –…
New results from the first archaeological fieldwork conducted in space show the International Space Station is a rich cultural landscape…
Although our universe may seem stable, having existed for a whopping 13.7 billion years, several experiments suggest that it is…