To understand what it might be like for humans to make it to the real Mars, and stick it out, behavioural ecologist Kelly Weinersmith gave her two cents.
The plan had been for Kairos – an ancient Greek word meaning “the right moment” – to put the satellite into orbit about 51 minutes after take-off.
First found in 2023, the exoplanet has a mass of 3.02 Earths and it takes 19.3 days to complete one orbit of its star.
Jeff Bezos’ rocket is going to need a bigger glans.
If Thursday’s landing attempt goes according to plan, Intuitive Machines could become the first company to pull off a successful touchdown on the lunar surface.
Pilot Jorge A. Arteaga captured the footage while flying over Antioquia, Colombia in 2022. It shows an unidentified object, which resembles a balloon, zooming past very clearly.
This is one of Cape Town’s best ‘uncommon’ experiences and one that the whole family will enjoy.
The giant rocket launched into space on the 8th of January and was headed towards the moon, but the mission unravelled very quickly and it has now been declared a huge failure.
A beam of cosmic energy so powerful that it carried the equivalent of hundreds of billions of volts of electricity hit Earth in 2021 and scientists are mystified by this for a couple of reasons.
By 2040, there could be more than one man on the moon.
Have you ever looked at the wonders of the James Webb Space Telescope and thought, ‘I wish I could do that’?
“Give me fuel! Give me fire!” the award-winning metal band sings on top of their characteristic guitar power chords.
“Our own Sun experienced a phase like this long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another’s star’s story.”
It’s pretty cool to see astronomy pros and hobbyists alike share some of their incredible shots of the pretty things up top in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards.
An author remembers the experience of his father, a cattle farmer who shot to infamy after recounting, during a hypnosis session, the alien abductions that would regularly occur on his farm.
Sound not being able to travel in space hasn’t stopped NASA from producing musical tones from the same telescope data that shows us such stunning pictures of deep space.
While there’s no man or rabbit on the moon, NASA says there might actually be something on the moon.
Feeling small is nice if you just go with it and pretend you’re an atom being sucked into the void, without bills or adult friendships to worry over.
A plummeting green light burned through the sky over Australia on Saturday with such a brilliant flash that it could be seen for miles.
That’s right, you will now be able to see a unique view of Earth in a huge balloon filled with hydrogen or helium.
Black holes are so massive that not even light can escape, which is how you know you’re basically nothing in comparison.
Talk about a supernova explosion.
“Do we have a lady? Check. Do we have a black person? Affirmative. Do we have all the woke boxes checked for history-making and viral fame? It’ll do.”
This particular asteroid was predicted to return in 2026, and scientists at the European Space Agency’s planetary defence initially thought the return journey would put it on a collision course with Earth.
Supernovas have been captured before. But the singular moment right before the star dies has never been seen before the way it has now.
While scanning a region of the cosmos near the Big Dipper, a group of astronomers identified something that has pretty much blown their minds.
Expert said “airbursts of this size happen somewhere several times per year” and are “rarely discovered in advance”.
Finally, an African country has been added to that Elon Musk’s SpaceX list.
The new dataset is made up of 21 400 shots that took two years to take, containing a staggering 3,32 billion celestial objects.
If everything goes as planned, humans will once again walk on the Moon in 2025.