Credit: NASA/Don Pettit NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond…
Category: Planetary Science
One of the most massive black holes in the universe lurks at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe
The notable gravitational lens known as the Cosmic Horseshoe was discovered in 2007. New research reveals a presence of an Ultra Massive Black Hole containing 36 billion solar masses. Credit:…
Laser-powered device tested on Earth could help detect microbial fossils on Mars
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The first life on Earth formed four billion years ago, as microbes living in pools and seas: what if the same thing happened on Mars? If…
Elon Musk calls for deorbit of International Space Station as soon as possible
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk’s latest space-related hammer throw is to call for it to be deorbited as soon as two years from now. In posts to X, Musk…
How Earth can defend itself against asteroid
The asteroid discovered in December is estimated to be 40-90 metres wide — roughly half the size of Dimorphos. There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of…
Musk in X spat with Danish astronaut over ‘abandoned’ ISS crew
Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen speaks at the Kennedy Space Center in August 2023. The world’s richest man Elon Musk got into a heated row Thursday with a Danish astronaut who…
Odds plummet that asteroid will hit Earth in 2032
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent,…
Ranger 8 moon photos aid in Apollo site selection
Impact sites of Rangers 7, 8 and 9. Credit: NASA / JPL Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists…
‘City killer’ asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASA
This handout picture provided by NASA shows asteroid 2024 YR4 as observed by the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology on January 27, 2025. An…
