China says it has landed a sample collector on the far side of the moon to bring back soil and rocks to Earth
BEIJING (AP) — China says it has landed a sample collector on the far side of the moon to bring back soil and rocks to Earth.
BEIJING (AP) — China says it has landed a sample collector on the far side of the moon to bring back soil and rocks to Earth.
Dwarfed The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of a giant nearby planet whose surface is quite literally freezing. In a statement about the incredible snap, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany explained that the exoplanet, named Epsilon Indi Ab for the red dwarf star system it was found in, is located […]
NASA's $450 million lunar explorer, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), will not be going to the Moon. Something else will be taking its place, though — and given the costs involved, the decision is bound to raise a few eyebrows, if not serious questions about the space agency's budget situation. The rover, which […]
A Taiwanese startup aims to become the first foreign firm to launch a rocket from Japan by early next year, part of a plan industry advocates say will aid Tokyo's ambitions of becoming a space hub in Asia. The planned suborbital launch by TiSpace has faced regulatory hurdles and delays amid questions over whether Japan should embrace overseas business as part of its effort to double the size of its 4 trillion yen ($26 billion) space industry over the next decade. The private firm, co-founded in 2016 by current and former officials from Taiwan's space agency, has not had a successful launch.
Pinpoint Stars In 2003, when the International Space Station was a mere three years old, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit took a gorgeous picture of the Earth's atmosphere, with countless stars frozen in time in the background. But as Pettit revealed in a Reddit post earlier this week, the same photo "cannot be taken anymore" — […]
Mighty Likely NASA's Perseverance Rover has found a rock on Mars that scientists believe may contain signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. As the New York Times reports, NASA researchers aren't quite ready to declare that they've found definitive biosignatures — the scientific term for "signs of life" — in the piece of ancient […]
A Martian rock sample collected by Perseverance contains "chemical signatures and structures" that could've been formed by ancient microbial life from billions of years ago.
After weeks of testing, NASA and Boeing officials say they better understand the issues plaguing the Starliner spacecraft, but still aren’t ready to name a return date.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the International Space Station on board Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft on June 6, over a month and a half ago. And the space agency still has yet to issue a return date as engineers are still poring over the data, investigating a number of thrusters […]
A man accused of a series of sexual assaults on his wedding night and honeymoon has been found not guilty on all charges in a Sydney court.
The former president put debate plans on pause, and critics are calling him out over it.
Commuters were noticeably annoyed by the disturbance, one man told Yahoo, and were 'shifting away' from the men in question.
With Joe Biden calling Trump’s alleged golfing prowess into question, is the 45th president as good as he claims to be?
"Something about the question mark after 'old and quite weird' is taking me out."
Rafa Nadal has left the tennis world stunned. Find out more here.
Hundreds of Aussie tourists are being denied entry into Indonesia’s island paradise for one reason.
The royal staff member reportedly let go is a relative of Queen Camilla.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called in to Fox News Thursday, where he told supporters that presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is a “radical left, not very smart person” who’s part of a massive conspiracy to weaponize the nation’s legal system against him. Harris’ campaign fired back mere minutes later with an email blasting the “78-year-old convicted criminal’s Fox ...
It's barely noticeable at first glance, but it could cost you your life – or at least a hefty repair bill – if you collide with it.
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Local officials oppose perpetrator Adrian Jerry Gonzalez’s release from youth prison