solar system
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe swinging by Venus on way to sun
This illustration from NASA shows the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launched in August 2018, the spacecraft will get a gravity assist on…
Scrawny dwarf planet, named Goblin, found well beyond Pluto
A round frozen world just 186 miles (300 kilometres) across, the Goblin was spotted by astronomers in 2015 around Halloween, thus its spooky name. (Photo:…
NASA’s Kepler Telescope has alarmingly low fuel, goes to sleep
Kepler has been searching for planets outside our solar system for nearly a decade. (Photo: NASA) NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is almost out of fuel…
‘Alien asteroid’ may be the oldest one in the solar system
BZ orbits in the opposite direction of all the planets and nearly everything else in the solar system, called a retrograde orbit. (Photo: AFP) An…
NASA gets into ‘Halloween’ mood, releases spooky soundtrack playlist
Halloween is a festival celebrated every year on October 31. The festival marks the beginning of the ‘Allhallowtide’ — a time to remember dead saints,…
Professor creates an artificial eclipse to image extrasolar planets
One craft – known as a starshade – would position itself like the moon in a solar eclipse, blocking out the light of a distant…
View | Earth from orbit in 4K using Sony’s mirrorless a7S II
This stunning 4K snap was taken by a Sony a7S II mounted to the side of the International Space Station (Credit: Sony) Sony today released…
Fastest stars in the Milky Way are ‘runaways’ from another galaxy
An alternative explanation to the origin of hypervelocity stars is that they are runaways from a binary system. (Representational image) The researchers, from the University…
KFC’s spicy Zinger chicken to travel to the stratosphere via space balloon
(Image: Space balloon/World View) World View, the stratospheric exploration company, today announced it will launch the first extended duration development flight of its high-altitude Stratollite…
Check out the two-headed worm from space
An amputated flatworm fragment sent to space regenerated into a double-headed worm, a rare spontaneous occurrence of double-headedness. Credit: Junji Morokuma, Allen Discovery Center at…
