The a doomed satellite looks like a Star Wars Tie Fighter spacecraft (Image: SWNS) The UK Space Agency has warned that a doomed satellite, which looks like a Star Wars Tie Fighter spacecraft, is set to crash into Earth next week. On
An asteroid flew past Earth on Monday closer than the distance to the moon after only being detected by scientists last week. The hurtling space rock, dubbed 2024 CY1, is the size of a double decker bus and potentially weighs 100s of tonnes.
Astronauts from Turkey, Italy and Sweden returned to Earth on Friday, ending a private three-week mission to the International Space Station. The trio were accompanied by a retired NASA astronaut who now works for Axiom Space, the Houston company that arranged the
There are an estimated 1.1 to 1.9 million asteroids in the Solar System’s asteroid belt, a vast stretch of space rocks that sit between Mars and Jupiter. While many of them will for their lives pose little threat, sometimes, their orbits can
The quest to find life on other planets has been boosted massively by the development of a revolutionary new technique to identify liquid water, a team of scientists has announced. The process involves measuring the amount of carbon dioxide in a planet’s
Black holes are perhaps the strangest of all that is found in space. The almost invisible regions are parts of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light and other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape. Essentially, they suck
An angry throng of shoppers were brought to a total standstill on Oxford street in a situation described as “hell on earth”. The visitors packed out the street above the Tube station as a mounting mass stood in a motionless crowd above
Real Madrid starboy Jude Bellingham has been snubbed in favour of Barcelona legend Lionel Messi after Real Betis defender Aitor Ruibal was asked if the England international was the best player in the world. Bellingham and Ruibal both scored on Saturday as
Scientists have been left stunned after a rare and extremely high-energy particle was spotted falling towards Earth. The cosmic ray has been named after the Japanese sun goddess, Amaterasu, and is one of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected, according to astrologists.
NASA released images of Earth from a unique angle that might cause most people to stop and stare. Rays from the sun were captured lighting up Earth’s atmosphere in a newly released image from the International Space Station. The images were taken