Apr 20
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth. Last August, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery.
Apr 20
A computer simulation of the collision thought to have formed the moon suggests the Earth originally rotated faster and in the opposite direction
Apr 20
If all languages have a universal structure, we could understand the speech and mathematical ideas of extraterrestrial civilisations
Apr 20
What is life? According to Sohan Jheeta, an astrobiologist from the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, biologists have spent far too long dithering about how to define what a living organism actually is. As a result there are more…
Apr 20
A hard-hitting report says the space agency is playing too safe with technologies and should focus on sending astronauts to Mars
Apr 20
An Italian team claim to have observed dark matter particles in a detector, replicating an earlier finding, but physicists remain sceptical
Apr 20
Claims that a German teen discovered that NASA had underestimated the risk of an asteroid impact by 100 times are false, say scientists
Apr 20
What would you do if you were the first person to land on another world? When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon in 1969, they didn’t worry about hostile aliens tracking them…
Apr 20
For at least two more years, the Cassini spacecraft will continue to explore Saturn and its ragbag of enigmatic, diverse moons
Apr 20
The Japanese ‘dandelion’ project will investigate the panspermia theory that says microorganisms riding comets can seed barren worlds with life
