Tags: space

IN the hunt for alien life, an icy moon circling our neighbour Saturn may be the best place to look. Now a top physicist is urging Nasa to probe frosty...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station’s two Russian astronauts ventured out on a spacewalk Wednesday to prepare for next year’s arrival of a long-delayed lab. Commander Sergey...

The Department of the Air Force has announced the six candidate locations being considered for the headquarters of the U.S. Space Command. The six locations include Kirtland Air Force Base...

A physicist has weighed in on the mystery surrounding the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua,’ which flew past Earth back in 2017 at an unusually high speed. Harvard professor Avi Loeb remarked...

Our solar system is passing through a cloud of interstellar material that shouldn’t be there, astronomers say. And now the decades-old Voyager spacecraft has helped solved the mystery. The cloud...

NASA unveiled a new image of the dwarf planet Ceres that «is like nothing that humanity has ever seen before.» In addition to being a dwarf planet, Ceres is also...

NASA’s $690 million Fermi space telescope was nearly hit by the dead Russian spy satellite Cosmos 1805 on April 3, 2013. This NASA graphic depicts the orbital paths of the...

The Canadian military is looking for help taking out the trash in space. Over the last two years, the military’s Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security program has awarded 16...

A dust plume from the Sahara Desert is making its way across the globe to the southern United States, and it’s so big it can be seen from space. In...

OUTER SPACE – Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way. At...