SLS RS-25 engine hot fire test completed by NASA
The SLS RS-25 engine, formerly the space shuttle main engine, the one that will drive NASA’s next great rocket to deep space, underwent its...
New marine reptile species from Jurassic era discovered in Scotland
University of Edinburgh palaeontologists have identified a dolphin-like creature – a new species of reptile – from the Jurassic era, that inhabited warm, shallow...
Massive fireball lights up Bucharest sky as meteor disintegrates
A huge ball of fire, a large meteor entering the Earth’s atmosphere, disintegrated in a ball of fire lighting up the Bucharest sky in the...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fails on soft landing attempt
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, the firm that tried but failed to bring part of its Falcon 9 rocket down to a soft landing, said...
Dying neutron star wobbles into space-time warp and vanishes
A pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star, a deep space spinning lighthouse, has disappeared from view because a space-time warp tilted its beams of...
Saturn’s location now pinpointed 50 times more precisely
Saturn’s and its moons’ locations can now be poinpointed about 50 times more precisely than measurements achieved by ground-based optical telescopes, thanks to pairing...
Proof life may have existed on Mars? Most likely
NASA scientists have been studying images taken by the NASA rover Curiosity that appear to show there may well have been life on Mars...
Milky Way core drives wind at 2m mph Hubble Space Telescope discovers
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a gigantic eruption occurred at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy about 2 million years ago,...
Massive Andromeda galaxy image taken by Hubble Space Telescope
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has assembled the largest image yet of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), our galactic next-door neighbor which is...
Kepler Space Telescope finds 8 planets in ‘Goldilocks’ zone
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has found eight new planets orbiting sun-like stars at just the right distance for liquid water to exist on their...