ESA signs deal to make a spacecraft to deflect asteroid heading for Earth
- 16-Sep-2020
ESA signed a deal worth 129 million euros to make a spacecraft for a joint project with NASA looking at how to deflect an asteroid heading for Earth
A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun
- 28-Jan-2020
A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles
Going underground … to prepare for outer space
- 28-Sep-2019
"Living in a cave is very similar to living in space, mentally. Actually, I thought it was much harder than living in space," 43-year-old Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi told AFP.
What if an asteroid was about to hit Earth? Scientists ponder question
- 30-Apr-2019
Here’s a hypothetical: a telescope detects an asteroid between 100 and 300 meters in diameter racing through our solar system at 14 kilometers per second, 57 million kilometers from Earth. Astronomers estimate a one percent risk the space rock will collide with our planet on April 27, 2027. What should we do? It’s this potentially […]
Here is the first ever image of a black hole
- 10-Apr-2019
Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87.
What are black holes, how do we know they exist!
- 09-Apr-2019
Astronomers are poised Wednesday to unveil the first direct image of a black hole and the surrounding whirlwind of white-hot gas and plasma inexorably drawn by gravity into its ravenous maw
New 3-D map of Milky Way will ‘revolutionise astronomy’
- 25-Apr-2018
Europe's Gaia satellite has produced a "stunning" 3-D map, published, of more than a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, complete with their distance from Earth, their colour, and their motion through space.
Moon village the first stop to Mars: ESA
- 28-Sep-2017
ADELAIDE: Setting up a permanent village on the moon is the first step towards exploring Mars, the European Space Agency said Thursday as plans to reach and colonise the Red Planet gathered pace. At an annual gathering of 4,000 global space experts in Adelaide, the ESA said the Moon was the “right place to be” […]
Asteroid to shave past Earth on Oct 12: ESA
- 10-Aug-2017
PARIS: A house-sized asteroid will shave past our planet on October 12, far inside the Moon’s orbit but without posing any threat, astronomers said on Thursday. The space rock will zoom by harmlessly at a distance of about 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles) — an eighth of the distance from the Earth to the Moon, according […]
WATCH: How astronauts wash hands and brush teeth in space
- 10-Mar-2017
Ever wonder how astronauts at space stations go about their daily lives? there in space, in zero gravity? Chris Hadfield from Canadian Space Agency once demonstrated how men in space do these tasks at a place where they don’t have running water. They can’t have a tap and sink because “water would flow everywhere”. VIDEO: […]