Electric car manufacturers have to design futuristic vehicles to entice buyers in order to ride out the challenge of plunging…
See Jupiter Shine with the Moon Tonight
If you’ve had clear skies the last few nights, you probably enjoyed the sight of the nearly full moon rising…
2nd Generation of Stars Can Rise from Stellar Clusters
Clusters of stars can harvest enough gas from their galaxies to give birth to a new generation of stars of…
Stellar parenting: Making new stars by ‘adopting’ stray cosmic gases
Among the most striking objects in the universe are glittering, dense swarms of stars known as globular clusters. Astronomers had…
The Tragedy Of Apollo 1 And The Lessons That Brought Us To The Moon (Synopsis)
“If we die, we want people to accept it. We’re in a risky business, and we hope that if anything…
Engineers Mark Completion of Orion’s Pressure Vessel
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is another step closer to launching on its first mission to deep space atop the agency’s Space…
Lonely But Not Alone: A Planet Orbits its Star at 1 Trillion Kilometres
The Royal Astronomical Society (RSA) has announced the discovery of a planet that orbits its star at a distance of…
Engineers Mark Completion of Orion’s Pressure Vessel
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is another step closer to launching on its first mission to deep space atop the agency’s Space…
Wide views of Mars from Mars Express
Geologist and amateur space image processor Justin Cowart has dug into the Mars Express archives and located some lovely, wide…
The Milky Way’s Clean and Tidy Galactic Neighbour
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