Space debris sent the International Space Station is sent into a higher orbit Wednesday, missing a close encounter with wayward detritus.
The International Space Station (ISS) was forced into a higher orbit on 10 November, as debris closed in on the orbiting outpost. Calculated orbits for the space junk showed…
Exploring asteroids with five missions that promise to reveal secrets of the ancient Solar System, and may even help us save the human race.
Roughly 66 million years ago, the age of dinosaurs came to an abrupt end, as a massive asteroid slammed into our world (near the Yucatan Peninsula)…
BepiColombo passes Mercury on its way to explore… Mercury. Here’s what’s happening!
On 1 October, racing just 200 kilometers (125 miles) above the surface of Mercury, the BepiColombo spacecraft paid its first visit to the innermost planet in our solar system.
This is the third major mission to Mercury, following…
Meet VIPER — the Artemis rover — a robot with a goal of landing on a patch of lunar soil near Nobile crater in search of water
Human beings could soon walk, once again, on the surface of the Moon with NASA’s Artemis program. …
Uchuu is the largest, most-detailed virtual universe ever designed — and it is free for anyone to explore.
It is only a dream to explore the Universe by sailing between galaxies, soaring through vast regions of the Cosmos in a comfortably-short period of time.
But now, an international group of…
Our future in space may see ISAAC control space stations, as well as space colonies on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
“What would happen if an astronaut were to lose a sock inside an air vent?” you may wonder. …
SuperBIT — a new concept to fly a telescope on balloons, could soon rival the Hubble Space Telescope.
Carried on a helium balloon the size of a football stadium, a revolutionary new telescope could forever change the way we carry out our explorations of the Cosmos.
Flying at an altitude…
Hubble is back, repaired and readying to resume its quest to study the Universe. Here’s NASA’s latest success story.
Following a month of problems, the Hubble Space Telescope is now repaired, following a successful switchover to a backup payload computer.
Should everything go as expected, the 30-year-old orbiting observatory should…
The Hubble Space Telescope is still down, and NASA prepares to place the orbiting observatory on backup systems…
The Hubble Space Telescope remains out of operation, following a failure in a payload computer on June 13.
The problem was tracked down to the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling unit…
The Hubble Space Telescope shut down, following the failure of critical electronics. How can the world’s most popular space telescope be repaired? Here’s how.
The Hubble Space Telescope, launched more than 30 years ago, has halted operations, following the failure of a payload computer critical to the operation of the…
Exploring the wonders of the Cosmos, one mystery at a time
