This particular asteroid was predicted to return in 2026, and scientists at the European Space Agency’s planetary defence initially thought the return journey would put it on a collision course with Earth.
The Pentagon loves their abbreviations, so AARO instructed NASA to investigate NEOs with Pan-STARRS. LOL.
Supernovas have been captured before. But the singular moment right before the star dies has never been seen before the way it has now.
While scanning a region of the cosmos near the Big Dipper, a group of astronomers identified something that has pretty much blown their minds.
Expert said “airbursts of this size happen somewhere several times per year” and are “rarely discovered in advance”.
The new dataset is made up of 21 400 shots that took two years to take, containing a staggering 3,32 billion celestial objects.
It’s a big win for the Karoo that the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and NASA have renewed their partnership in lunar exploration.
The man who managed to see SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lift off from his seat on a United Airlines flight said it totally topped any in-flight-entertainment.
An awesome photo of Earth made waves on the internet. The image featured two blue ominous orbs, hovering over our planet.
The simulation, exploring what would happen if a 500-kilometre-wide asteroid collided with Earth, doesn’t really make for cosy viewing.
Last week, the official theme song, ‘Semper Supra’ – which is Latin for ‘always above’ – debuted at the 2022 Air, Space, and Cyber Conference.
We’ve only ever seen this icy giant in great detail when NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and only space probe to fly past it for just a few hours in 1989.
The latest showcase is of the Orion Nebula, a star nursery located 1 350 light-years from Earth in the Orion constellation, now revealed in incredible detail.
Earlier this year, a panel of experts from the US National Academies recommended a mission to the ice giant.
Being 161 000 light-years away was no problem for the highly sensitive James Webb Space Telescope, which captured the cosmic arachnid in stunning detail.
The remarkable gold-plated, infrared eyes have been capturing far-flung galaxies as well as shedding light on a bevvy of scientific questions and concerns.
In the latest budget for the country’s intelligence services, the Pentagon has been requested to focus its UFO investigation in a surprising direction.
NASA released the first track of the void, in a listenable form fit for human ears, and it really is rather unsettling.
While seeing the Cartwheel Galaxy in such clear light is impressive, a new video released by the European Space Agency shows just how incredibly far away it actually is.
JWST has peered into deep space again with its infrared gaze and discovered the “stellar gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy”.
Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface after Neil Armstrong, with the duo becoming the first astronauts to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969.
The JWST views light in the infrared spectrum – on Earth, we can feel infrared light as heat – which allows the instrument to see far, far more of the universe.
Sifting through the public James Webb Space Telescope datasets, stargazers across the planet have been hard at work.
It turns out that all those lovely golden mirrors on the miraculous James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are quite vulnerable to being damaged by space rocks.
The first image was shown to the world on Monday, but little did we know that NASA would be releasing other amazing photos from the first batch throughout yesterday.
As part of the preparations to send the Starship rocket up to space, the booster was undergoing tests at the company’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, when suddenly it went boom.
The James Webb Space Telescope shows us a version of the universe that is chock-a-block with galaxies, some ranging back to an unimaginable time.
The 2022 shortlisted images are nothing short of spectacular, from a mesmerising moonrise moment over an ancient English tower to a surreal shot of the Milky Way above the highest highway in the world.
Jerry Ehman had his ear to the universe on August 15, 1977, working on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence programme, or SETI, when he heard a very interesting signal.
China’s massive ‘Sky Eye’ FAST telescope, the world’s largest alien-hunting radio telescope, seems to have picked up a strange signal which could suggest that there is indeed life beyond Earth.