Officials and media personnel are seen inside the Operations and Checkout Building (O&C) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, set to return humans…
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Chemical contamination on International Space Station is out of this world, study shows
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Concentrations of potentially harmful chemical compounds in dust collected from air filtration systems on the International Space Station (ISS) exceed those found in floor dust from…
Observing Structures in a Dying Star
New images of a dying star at the centre of a well-known planetary nebula 2,600 light years from Earth have revealed structures that no previous telescope could detect, according to…
Gravitational Arcs in ‘El Gordo’ Galaxy Cluster Spotted
The infrared image, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, displays a variety of unusual, distorted background galaxies that were only hinted at in previous Hubble Space Telescope images. Webb’s infrared…
Giant Solar Eruption Felt on Earth, Moon and Mars
A coronal mass ejection erupted from the Sun on 28 October 2021 and was spread over such a wide area that Mars and Earth, while on opposite sides of the…
NASA InSight study finds Mars is spinning faster
NASA’s InSight lander captured this selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Dust on its solar panels caused the lander to lose power…
Do technological civilizations depend on atmospheric oxygen?
Oxygen atmospheres depends on planet size and temperature. Credit: Balbi & Frank Nearly 2 million years ago a species of upright apes known as Homo erectus began to use fire.…
New Clues on the Source of the Universe’s Magnetic Fields
The source of magnetic fields in the Universe has long been debated. New research offers clues on their origins. It isn’t just your refrigerator that has magnets on it. The…
Astronomers to Solve Mysteries of Universe With Euclid Satellite Launch
Mysteries of the dark universe which have bewildered astronomers for centuries could finally be solved by Southampton scientists after the Euclid satellite was fired into space. Artist impression of the…
Indian lunar landing mission enters moon’s orbit
An Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rocket carrying the Chandrayaan-3 lifts off on July 14, 2023. India’s latest space mission entered the moon’s orbit on Saturday ahead of the country’s…
