Good news: NASA boffins spot closest near-Earth asteroid ever. Bad news: We never saw it coming. Good news: It's also really small
Thing was the size of a car, moved at 12km/sec, missed us by just 2,950km
19 Aug 2020 | 40
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A Song of Iceland Fire: Scotland's Skyrora launches Skylark Micro rocket from volcanic viking outpost
InterviewHave containers, will travel
18 Aug 2020 | 7
Just like many of us during lockdown, Arianespace has bulked up payload capacity on its heavy lifter by 85kg
In briefAlso: NASA and SpaceX name the date for Crew-1, Orion assembly almost done, and more
17 Aug 2020 |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Winking red supergiants sneezing hot gas 650 light years away
Hubble probe readings may reveal what caused Betelgeuse to briefly dim
13 Aug 2020 | 28
America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish
PicVenerable Arecibo Observatory showing its age
12 Aug 2020 | 64
Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons
In briefAlso: Scottish rocketeers to launch from Iceland, and SpaceX lobs more Starlinks
11 Aug 2020 | 8
Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?
Dawn probe's last data shows surprising results from asteroid belt
11 Aug 2020 | 7
NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects
‘Horsehead Nebula’ is okay, ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’ is not
10 Aug 2020 | 182
The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR
We don't have to go... outside... to have a good time, oh no
07 Aug 2020 | 10
Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars
Boffins find atmospheric oddities that make the planet blink in Spring and Autumn
07 Aug 2020 | 24
Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data
Spreadsheet woes spanning 16+ years force official update
06 Aug 2020 | 274
The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant
PicOr maybe a spleen? Stomach? Snot bubble? You decide
06 Aug 2020 | 42
Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime
Study reckons observation window would be increased from 6 to 22 hours
05 Aug 2020 | 3
What a good eye-dea: Battery-less, grain-of-sand-sized 2.4GHz transmitter to help save your eyesight
Wireless sensor to show 'how the body is responding in real-time' to treatment
05 Aug 2020 | 25
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe – because we used astrometry: A Saturn-like world hugging its star
Mexico, US boffins used technique 'for the first time' with ground-based radio 'scopes to spot exoplanet
04 Aug 2020 | 4
Aviation regulator outlines fixes that will get the 737 MAX flying again
Software upgrade to deliver less lethally-stubborn automation
04 Aug 2020 | 114
Virgin Galactic pals up with Rolls-Royce to work on Mach 3 Concorde-style private jet that can carry up to 19 people
Same height, bit faster, same wing layout as iconic 1960s airliner
03 Aug 2020 | 92
And it's off! NASA launches nuke-powered, laser-shooting, tank Perseverance to Mars to search for signs of life
23 cameras, microphones and a helicopter on the rover to see and hear the Red Planet in living technicolor
30 Jul 2020 | 48
Boeing confirms it will finish building 747s in 2022, when last freighter flies off the production line
Commercial business slumps but troubled 737 MAX could be back in the skies late this year
30 Jul 2020 | 57
911, I wanna report a robbery. Hundreds of thousands of stars stolen from a cluster. I think it was the Milky Way
Ancient ball of suns smeared across space by our galaxy two billion years ago
29 Jul 2020 | 15
Once considered lost, ESA and NASA's SOHO came back from the brink of death to work even better than it did before
Space ExtendersAlmost 25 years and counting, here's to the luckiest spacecraft off Earth
29 Jul 2020 | 43
Virgin Galactic reveals giant mirror feature in cabin design for Beardy Branson's space bus
Passengers will be able to watch themselves float while bathed in Earthlight and surrounded by tasteful colours
29 Jul 2020 | 43
What goes up, Musk come down... and up and down and up and down: NASA details followup Dragon pod trips to orbiting station
Assuming this weekend's return journey goes well, natch
28 Jul 2020 | 7
Astroboffins map engine of a solar flare: Magnetic mega-fields and Earth-dwarfing blankets of electric current
Holy sheet...
28 Jul 2020 | 8
Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon
Research showed 'reduced deviation' when it made a 0.5mm x 0.5mm slice
27 Jul 2020 | 13
If you think you've got problems, pal, spare a thought for these boffins baffled by 'oddball' meteorites
Chondritic and achondritic? Back to the drawing board, then
27 Jul 2020 | 27
USA seeks Moon and Mars nuke power plant designs ready to fly in 2027
Wants 10kw delivering 120V DC because solar cells have limitations and we can’t schlep fuel up there
27 Jul 2020 | 103
We're not all about rockets, says NASA: Balloon tech is good enough for economical star scanning
Ahem, hey, any chance LOHAN can hitch a ride?
25 Jul 2020 | 28
Mysterious supernova is blasting far-flung galaxy with flashes of UV light – and astroboffins don't know why
So many questions, but it's only the second time such a phenomenon has been observed
24 Jul 2020 | 16
Fresh astro-underwear, anyone? Orbital shenanigans as Progress freighter has last-minute ISS docking wobble
Resupply ship plies space station with food, fuel and fear
24 Jul 2020 | 18
Russia tested satellite-to-satellite shooter, say UK and USA
Moscow says offending bird is a mere maintenance drone
24 Jul 2020 | 67
Visa fraud charges: Uncle Sam accuses four Chinese eggheads of covering up their true ties to China's military
Three collared, one in hiding at San Francisco consulate
24 Jul 2020 | 22
China successfully launches Mars probe that packs an orbiter, lander, rover
State media posts short vid and says Tianwen-1 is doing just fine so let’s just go with that shall we?
23 Jul 2020 | 31
'First ever' snap emerges of something vaguely resembling our solar system 300 ly away. We'll take 10 tickets
Pic and videoGassy giants make Jupiter look like an absolute tiddler
23 Jul 2020 | 32
SpaceX pulls off an incredible catch, netting both halves of its Falcon fairing as they fell Earthwards after latest launch
Fair(ing) play, engineers
22 Jul 2020 | 38
Mexican cave relics suggest humans were populating the Americas up to 17,000 years earlier than thought
Immigrants crossing Bering land bridge would have found folk already there
22 Jul 2020 | 20
