Could there be a South Korean TV show somewhere in this? The European Space Agency (ESA) has completed stage one of its latest astronaut selection process, with 1,362 astronaut and 29 parastronaut applicants making the cut.…
Lees meerIs that an extremely large moon we see outside the solar system, astro-boffins ask themselves Scientists have spotted a new candidate for a moon existing outside of our solar system, with only a 1 per cent chance the observation could be an anomaly.…
Lees meerLaser experiments show their magnetic fields shielding their surfaces from radiation last longer Life on Super-Earths may have more time to develop and evolve, thanks to their long-lasting magnetic fields protecting them against harmful cosmic rays,…
Lees meerPaperwork needs sorting for a launch from the UK Virgin Orbit has managed a third successful mission as the company deployed seven satellites into orbit from its LauncherOne rocket.…
Lees meerSpace is hard While there were whoops and cheers for the James Webb Space Telescope, other missions on Mars and in orbit around the Earth have fared less well in recent weeks.…
Lees meerSouth Korea piqued as FAA grounds west coast aircraft North Korean state-sponsored media has said it launched a third hypersonic missile on Tuesday, hitting a target at sea 1,000km (621 miles) away. According to news agency KCNA, President Kim Jong …
Lees meerIt was worth a try Just over 1,500 light-years away in the constellation of Hercules there’s a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet orbiting a star. It’s the first time astronomers have been able to detect such an unusual shape of an alien world.…
Lees meerSpace: The final frontier for cybersecurity The European Space Agency (ESA) is inviting applications from attackers who fancy having a crack at its OPS-SAT spacecraft.…
Lees meerEngineers try to clear material so Mars bot can continue drilling NASA engineers have temporarily paused Perseverance’s ability to drill and collect Martian rock samples due to pebbles piling up in the rover’s caching system.…
Lees meerAnd you thought unfolding the table for Christmas dinner was tricky The gold-coated primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was fully unfurled this weekend, marking the end of the epic major deployments of the spacecraft, but only th…
Lees meerStudy hopes to take the elitism out media consumption Those attempting a digital detox might settle down with a paper book in the assumption they are nurturing their well-being. But the benefits of traditional versus new media are not as clear as re…
Lees meerPlan is to use the arm to finish putting the outpost together The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) says it has completed load-bearing tests on its space station's 10m robotic arm.…
Lees meerPatching over the cracks in partner relations and pressurised modules for a few extra years While scientists celebrated the successful launch and ongoing deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA had another thing to bring cheer in the new …
Lees meerHow far's the Moon now? ... Here's 'How Soon Is Now?' from your Spotify playlist As if NASA's troubled Artemis program didn't have enough to worry about, tech utilising Amazon's Alexa and Cisco's Webex is set to be on board for the first mission aro…
Lees meerRock detonated with same force as 30 tons of TNT (or 0.002 Little Boys) The loud boom heard over the skies of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on New Year’s Day was due to an exploding meteor with the blast energy equivalent to 30 tons of TNT, NASA has con…
Lees meerHas the sustainability trend infiltrated the space industry? Kyoto University and Japanese logging company Sumitomo Forestry are designing a wooden satellite, with hopes of achieving the goal by 2023.…
Lees meerEngineers on Earth have five and a half months more of this The James Webb Space Telescope has continued to notch up the milestones on its journey to its L2 destination with the tensioning of its sunshield.…
Lees meerNew launch date could be a marvelous Christmas gift to humanity The James Webb Telescope has been cleared for launch, only for weather to delay its ascent for at least a day.…
Lees meerThe five grams of Ryugu we got suggests it's made of the same stuff as the outer Sun Researchers have published the first analyses of samples plucked from asteroid 162173 Ryugu by Japan's spacecraft Hayabusa2, revealing, for the first time, the phys…
Lees meerHave all those scientists been naughty ... or nice? The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) slipped to not earlier than December 24 as engineers investigated and today fixed up a communications problem on board the booster and spacecraft…
Lees meerMillipede? Has something been bugging you about the name? Not any more Pedantic observers of arthropods can finally sleep at night as scientists have discovered a millipede with more than 1,000 legs.…
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