ON DECEMBER 6, a piece of an asteroid was found in the middle of the Australian desert. But this wasn’t an act of nature. It was a well-choreographed, meticulous transaction which took years of planning and…
China plans to build a scientific research station on the moon in “about 10 years,” according to the state news agency Xinhua. The China National Space Administration (CSNA) intends to build the research station in the…
Elon Musk’s new plan to have at least one million people on Mars. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on another planet? Would the sky still be blue? Would there…
A bizarre-sounding plan to save Earth funded by tech guru Bill Gates is “quietly” moving forward. POLL: Will you be spending Christmas with your family or social distancing? The plan — to dim the sun’s…
There are a lot of moving parts to the Universe, as nothing exists in isolation. There are literally trillions of large masses in our Solar System, all orbiting around the galactic center on timescales of…
At the end of the year, astronomers expect to see a rare cosmic phenomenon dubbed the “Christmas star” in the sky. It will be caused by the fact that Saturn and Jupiter come close to each…
Vice President Mike Pence announced Friday that members of the Space Force military service will be called guardians. “We just returned from the Oval Office and so it is my honor, on behalf of the President of the United…
The two planets shine close to the moon Dec. 16 and 17. This week Jupiter and Saturn are low in the southwest during the chilly December dusk. When this month began, they were separated by…
American aviation legend Chuck Yeager is generally considered one of the best pilots of all time. In 1947, Yeager flew a Bell X-1 experimental aircraft to a record-breaking 45,000 feet in elevation, reaching a blistering…
70,000 years ago, a nomadic star came within a light-year of the Sun, likely sending dozens of comets and asteroids tumbling out of the solar system. Around 70,000 years ago, a supervolcano named Toba erupted,…
THERE’S WATER ON THE MOON, AND THERE’S FAR MORE OF IT THAN SCIENTISTS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. On Monday, NASA scientists announced they had detected molecular water on the Moon, trapped in ice across the lunar surface. From the data,…
An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang and can still be observed today, Sir Roger Penrose has said, as he received the Nobel Prize for Physics. Sir Roger, 89, who won the honour for his seminal work proving…