A “strange explosive episode” is unfolding in the galaxy, NASA scientists have proposed. The scientists have theorised that a colossal black hole performed a 180° magnetic flip after observing a mysterious cosmic outburst in a galaxy located 236 million light years away. Details of the theory have been published in a new study in the Astrophysical … Read more
Asteroid 1960 DA, no longer is posing an existential threat, says an updated threat analysis done by the European Space Agency. The stony monster was predicted to be hitting the Earth in 2889 A.D, doing major damage. Analysis performed by Giorgini et al. and reported in the April 5, 2002 edition of the journal Science. … Read more
The French space agency CNES is partnering with its national scientific research centre on the project. (Photo credit: Twitter/ISS Research) Blob sent off to International Space Station: The European Space Agency has launched a single-cell slime mould to the International Space Station. Nicknamed Blob, scientists will use the natural slime mould to observe it in microgravity. … Read more
Venus is similar to Earth in size as well as composition. (Image: ESA/Paris Observatory/VR2 Planets) Space mission to Venus: A few days after US space agency NASA announced that it had selected two missions to Venus, now the European Space Agency (ESA) has said that EnVision would be its next mission to head to Venus … Read more
China is about to attempt something that only the United States and (very briefly) the Soviet Union have done before: successfully land a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Having orbited the planet since February, the Chinese craft, called Tianwen-1, is expected to send a landing vehicle on a difficult descent through the thin Martian … Read more