After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...

Programme for ‘peaceful use of outer space’ launched in 2020 is seen as potential rival to US Space Force’s X-37B.

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In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic ...

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The 1980s were a golden era for science fiction movies, but not everything that hit the big screen aged well. These classics ...

The Vietnam Space Museum (Hanoi) features light art installations, models of spacecraft simulating the scale of the universe, allowing viewers to journey from Earth to the entirety of space, and ...

The Lunar Gateway is planned space station that will orbit the Moon. It is part of the Nasa‑led Artemis programme. Artemis ...

When cooled to its superconducting state, niobium blocks the radiative flow of heat 20 times better than when in its metallic ...

The damage doesn't happen in long-term missions; just spending a couple of weeks in orbit can physically reshape an astronaut ...