Illustration: Blue Origin The White House announced earlier this year it would implement a unified time standard for the Moon by 2027, an essential measure as NASA aims to establish …
NEW DELHI: Recent studies have introduced compelling evidence supporting the existence of a hypothetical ‘Planet Nine‘ in the outer reaches of our solar system, challenging previous skepticism around the topic. …
Nasa‘s Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), has initiated a novel mission targeting small asteroids within the main belt. This effort seeks to deepen our …
WASHINGTON: Our Milky Way galaxy‘s most common type of star is called a red dwarf – much smaller and less luminous than our sun. These stars – or so it …
The Smithsonian national museum of natural history in Washington DC is set to unveil a fragment of the asteroid Bennu to the public next week. According to Space.com, the rare …
NEW DELHI: The Moon may be at least 4.46 billion years old, according to a study that pushes back the age of the lunar body by 40 million years. Over …
NEW DELHI: US space agency Nasa on Friday launched a spacecraft to Psyche, a distant metal-rich asteroid that is the solar system‘s largest-known metallic object and is thought to be …
NEW DELHI: Nasa on Wednesday unveiled its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft and said that the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contained abundant water and carbon.“The first analysis …
The Parker Space Probe is described by NASA as being “about the size of a small car,” and its only goal is to fly as close to the sun as …