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NASA makes major announcement about Mars sample-return mission
4-16-2024 |
17
Major change is afoot regarding NASA's plans to return samples of Martian soil and rock to the Earth.
China is attempting to build a giant rail gun to fire astronauts into space
3-22-2024 | 3
Launching a rocket takes a lot of energy, but what if it were possible to fire a spacecraft into space instead?
Tourist returns rocks taken from Pompeii due to fears over 'curse'
1-21-2024 | 4
For years, the city of Pompeii has been associated with stories of bad luck inflicted on anyone who removes anything from the site.
How much life has existed, or will ever exist, on the Earth ?
1-16-2024 | 1
Assistant Professor Peter Crockford takes a look at how much life has inhabited this planet since the first cell appeared.
Secretive X-37b space plane blasts off on another mystery mission
VIDEO 12-29-2023 | 36
After several delays earlier this month, the enigmatic vehicle has finally headed back into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Tatahouine: 'Star Wars' meteorite is teaching us about the solar system
12-24-2023 | 0
Fragments of the space rock rained down over Tatahouine, Tunisia - the filming location of Tatooine in Star Wars.
Mystery 'undisclosed' payload involved in rocket's double-crater crash
11-23-2023 | 1
A new study has concluded that a Chinese rocket that crashed into the Moon in 2022 was carrying a mystery payload.
NASA's Mars rover photographs rock shaped like an avocado
9-17-2023 | 4
The rather unusual object was captured on camera in Jezero Crater by the Perseverance rover earlier this month.
4.5 billion-year-old space rock upends assumptions about the solar system
8-30-2023 | 0
PhD candidate Evgenii Krestianinov looks at the secrets revealed by a space rock found in the Sahara back in 2020.
Woman in France is struck by meteorite in freak incident
7-17-2023 | 16
The woman had been enjoying a coffee on a terrace when she was suddenly hit on the chest by a small space rock.
Weird donut-shaped rock on Mars may not actually be from Mars
6-28-2023 | 6
NASA's Perseverance rover recently captured an image of a curious rock shaped suspiciously like a donut.
Unicorns in Africa - the mystery of one-horned animals in rock art
6-27-2023 | 5
Postdoctoral researcher David M. Witelson takes a look at the significance of one-horned animals in southern African rock art.
Suspected meteorite smashes through roof of New Jersey home
5-10-2023 | 8
The new owners of the residential property got the fright of their lives when the space rock crashed through their ceiling.
NASA's Perseverance rover has finally lost its pet rock
4-23-2023 | 2
The rover had been carrying the inadvertent passenger across the surface of Mars for over a year.
Woman narrowly escapes death as boulder crashes through her house
VIDEO 2-1-2023 | 8
Caroline Sasaki was mere inches from certain death when a huge rock came crashing into her home at the weekend.
Elephant-sized asteroid passes Earth in extraordinary 'near-miss'
1-29-2023 | 6
The space rock passed us by at a distance of 2,200 miles - a fraction of the distance at which some satellites orbit the Earth.
NASA is building a nuclear rocket to get to Mars in just 45 days
VIDEO 1-25-2023 | 2
The new rocket will be designed to enable manned missions to the Red Planet and could debut as soon as 2027.
'Huge diversity' of organic compounds found in Martian meteorite
1-20-2023 | 6
A new study has revealed the presence of a wealth of organic compounds in a rock believed to have come from Mars.
Missile test launch sparks UFO scare in South Korea
VIDEO 12-31-2022 | 5
Social media was awash on Friday with reports of strange objects, vapor trails and colored lights over the country.
NASA's Artemis I has successfully launched on its voyage to the Moon
VIDEO 11-16-2022 | 17
After several scuppered launch attempts, the most powerful rocket in history has finally departed on its maiden voyage.
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