Astronomers aren't pleased about a Russian plan to put billboards in space
It was bound to happen.
Jan 18, 2019
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Scientists find increase in asteroid impacts on ancient Earth by studying the Moon
An international team of scientists is challenging our understanding of a part of Earth's history by looking at the Moon, the most complete and accessible chronicle of the asteroid collisions that carved our solar system.
Iran satellite in US row fails to reach orbit
Iran launched a satellite criticised by the United States as a breach of a UN resolution on Tuesday but it failed to reach orbit, the telecommunications minister said.
Double star system flips planet-forming disk into pole position
New research led by an astronomer at the University of Warwick has found the first confirmed example of a double star system that has flipped its surrounding disc to a position that leaps over the orbital plane of those stars. ...
SpaceX launches final 10 satellites for Iridium
SpaceX on Friday blasted off a payload of global communications satellites for Iridium, marking the first launch of 2019 for the California-based company headed by Elon Musk.
Video: Fifteen years imaging the Red Planet
On 25 December 2003, ESA's Mars Express entered orbit around the Red Planet. The spacecraft began returning the first images from orbit using its High Resolution Stereo Camera just a couple of weeks later, and over the course ...
A new, potentially inhabitable super-Earth
Researchers at the University of Oviedo, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered and characterized a planet in the habitability zone of a red dwarf star. It was detected using ...
Asteroid-circling spacecraft grabs cool snapshot of home
An asteroid-circling spacecraft has captured a cool snapshot of home.
TESS rounds up its first planets, snares far-flung supernovae
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, in its first three months of observations.
India to send three-person crew on landmark space mission
India will send a three-member team into orbit for up to a week when it launches its first manned space mission expected in 2022, the government announced Friday.
