Last But Not Least
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:15:03
Curiosity's final scientific instrument gets up and running. -
Curiosity's final scientific instrument gets up and running.
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–Atlas) sightings around the world – in pictures
Updated: 2024-10-15 11:16:57Named after the Chinese observatory and South African programme that detected it in 2023, the ‘comet of the century’ may have formed at a distance of up to 400,000 times that between Earth and the Sun. Its coma, or head, measures about 130,000 miles (209,000km) in diameter, with a tail extending 18m miles (29m km). The comet is not expected to return for another 80,000 years Continue reading...NASA spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter's Europa moon
Updated: 2024-10-14 09:00:00Europa Clipper will make a six-year journey to Jupiter to study Europa, an icy-surfaced moon that scientists believe has “ingredients for life.”Europa Clipper to blast off on mission to find out if Jupiter moon may hold life
Updated: 2024-10-14 06:00:17$5bn Nasa mission will assess whether ice-covered moon that is thought to have twice Earth’s water is habitableNasa is poised to send a spacecraft to a frosty moon of Jupiter where extraterrestrial life may eke out an existence in an enormous ocean hidden beneath its ice-covered surface.The Europa Clipper mission is due to blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12.06pm local time on Monday after the original plan to launch on Thursday was scrapped due to the battering winds brought by Hurricane Milton. Continue reading...SpaceX launches Starship rocket and catches booster in giant metal arms
Updated: 2024-10-13 17:25:57
Elon Musk’s huge rocket sets off on test flight before upper stage splashdown and explosion in Indian OceanElon Musk’s SpaceX achieved a significant milestone on Sunday by catching the massive booster stage from its Starship rocket in a pair of robotic arms as it fell back to the company’s launchpad in southern Texas.The historic feat, which drew praise from astronauts and space experts, topped a successful fifth test flight for the uncrewed Starship, which blasted off from the Boca Chica starbase at 7.25am local time (1325 BST) on Sunday. Continue reading...SpaceX rocket booster successfully 'caught' on first attempt during flight test
Updated: 2024-10-13 15:25:27SpaceX conducted its fifth flight test of Starship, its most powerful spacecraft.SpaceX lands Starship rocket in first test of giant robotic arms – video
Updated: 2024-10-13 14:02:39
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket and caught the returning booster with giant mechanical arms. The empty Starship blasted off at sunrise from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border Continue reading...Timelapse: 'ring of fire' forms during solar eclipse at Easter Island – video
Updated: 2024-10-03 01:48:48
The moon blotted out most of the sun across the Pacific Ocean, giving just a few specks of land an impressive annular 'ring of fire' eclipse. Only Easter Island and a small area near the southern tip of Chile and Argentina witnessed the annular eclipse, lasting just a few minutes Continue reading...