NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument Ever since 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July, it’s been the space object everyone argues about. It’s only the third interstellar visitor ever found passing through our Solar System, it refused to sit neatly in the “just another […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument Ever since 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July, it’s been the space object everyone argues about. It’s only the third interstellar visitor ever found passing through our Solar System, it refused to sit neatly in the “just another […]
The quest to grow food beyond Earth has fascinated scientists and space agencies for decades, not only as a matter of survival, but as a critical strategy to sustain life on long-duration missions and future interplanetary exploration. Although many imagine leafy greens in space, the first vegetable ever to take root in microgravity was the […]
Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective cocoon, shielding the planet from harmful charged particles racing in from the Sun and deep space. But over the South Atlantic, that shield has developed an unusually weak patch known as the South Atlantic Anomaly. Recent observations show that this anomaly is not only expanding but also shifting, […]
There are moments in space exploration when a single picture forces scientists to pause, rethink and question everything they know. That is precisely what happened when NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a strange boulder sitting alone in the Jezero Crater region. Its texture, colour and placement immediately stood out. This was not the sort of rock […]
A long-running and highly publicised legal saga once promoted as the world’s first “space crime” has reached a definitive conclusion after Summer Heather Worden, the estranged partner of NASA astronaut Anne McClain, pleaded guilty to making false statements to federal investigators. Worden admitted fabricating claims that McClain accessed her bank account from the International Space […]
NASA is preparing to showcase new imagery of the interstellar comet 3I ATLAS, offering the public a closer look at one of the rarest visitors to our solar system. The comet, which was discovered by the ATLAS observatory earlier this year, is only the third confirmed object to enter our solar system from elsewhere in […]
NASA has released a set of extraordinary radar images showing an asteroid spinning so fast that it has forced scientists to rethink long-held assumptions about small bodies in space. The asteroid, known as 2025 OW, is tiny compared to the large space rocks we normally hear about, yet its behaviour is anything but ordinary. Detected […]
Venus has always been known as Earth’s hostile twin, but new findings suggest it is becoming even more unpredictable for upcoming space missions. The planet already challenges spacecraft with extreme heat, crushing pressure, and corrosive clouds. Yet, scientists now believe its atmosphere is behaving in ways that increase the risks for orbiters, flybys, and potential […]
The first full-colour photograph of Earth marked a turning point in how humanity understood its planet, shifting the view from fragmented satellite snapshots to a vivid global portrait. During the late 1960s, NASA was expanding its experimental satellite programme, exploring how colour imaging could enhance weather forecasting and planetary observation. This period saw rapid innovation […]
