The proposed ‘US Space Academy’ intends to strengthen the nation’s space workforce and develop the next generation of space leaders (Photo: Nasa). US President Donald Trump signed an executive order o...
In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts found an unusual white rock on the Moon (Image Credit: NASA) When Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin explored the Moon in 1971, they were looking for rocks ...
The Moon has been romanticised for centuries, but few people have ever tried to give someone a piece of it. In 2002, that idea became part of an extraordinary theft at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center, whe...
China has postponed the planned launch of its Chang’e-7 Moon mission, days after saying the launch site and equipment were in good condition. China has postponed the planned launch of its Chang&...
For centuries, owning land has meant having a place that can be measured, divided and legally transferred. Dennis Hope thought he had found an exception. In the late 20th century, while considering ho...
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has liquid rain, rivers and seas much like Earth, except its clouds are made of methane rather than water vapour. Planetary scientists studying the moon found that ...
A four-tonne rocket stage hurtled towards the Moon at 8,700 kmph after drifting in space for more than a year. A four-tonne piece of SpaceX rocket debris is believed to have slammed into the Moon at a...
In a government school classroom in Dowleswaram, a physical science teacher noticed something in a Class 10 student that would eventually take her all the way to New Delhi, and possibly, one day, to t...
Buzz Aldrin used nothing but a felt-tip pen to fix a broken switch and rocket Apollo 11 home from the Moon An ordinary felt-tip pen that helped save two astronauts from being stranded on the Moon has ...
Mark Zuckerberg wore a $2 million Rolex that tracks the moon while talking about an AI lab trying to change the clock on disease Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently detailed his plans to use artificial ...