Scientists have dashed any remaining hopes of finding life on Venus, the second-closest planet to the Sun. Clouds on Venus don’t contain enough water to sustain even organisms that are adapted to live in extreme environments on Earth, they reveal. The researchers, led by Queen’s University Belfast, looked at data from various scientific probes, including Galileo, … Read more
How important is the presence of liquid water? It is now widely believed that Mars holds a reasonably large volume of water. However, the surface of the planet is so cold, this water exists only as ice. In order for life to exist on a planet, many scientists believe it is essential for the world … Read more
A trio of British-built satellites due to launch on a SpaceX rocket tomorrow will have to wait a bit longer for their trip to orbit, after the firm delayed the launch. ‘[The] team is taking additional time for pre-launch checkouts ahead of the Transporter-2 mission,’ Elon Musk‘s company announced, without giving a new date for the … Read more
A trio of British-built satellites launch on a SpaceX rocket tomorrow with the aim of monitoring climate change and tracking endangered wildlife around the world. The satellites are due to lift off from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-2 ride share mission at 19:56 BST (14:56 ET) on Friday. UK companies … Read more
Hubble Telescope’s ailing 1980s-era computer may not be as easy to fix as first thought as NASA says memory issues are a symptom not the cause and malfunction could be other hardware The Hubble Space Telescope has been offline for more than a week; NASA says the issue may be bigger than first believed NASA … Read more
Thousands of people have applied to become a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut including nearly 2,000 from the UK after the call for applications closed. ESA is looking for six full time astronauts and up to 20 reservists that will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) and one day on to the NASA Lunar … Read more
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has made its EIGHTH successful flight on the Red Planet NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed its eighth successful flight on Mars The 4-pound helicopter flew 525 feet (160meters) for 77.4 seconds. It landed roughly 440 feet (133.5m) away from Perseverance It captures its own shadow, 14 days after its seventh flight By Chris … Read more
Father and son, 7, join volunteer team and help discover two new gaseous planets orbiting a star 1.5times the size of the sun more than 350 light-years away – by poring over NASA data Two exoplanets orbiting a star larger than the sun 352 light-years from Earth have been spotted by citizen scientists The star, … Read more
With NASA and the European Space Agency set to send three missions to Venus in the not-too distant future, researchers are anxious to learn more about the seismic activity of ‘Earth’s evil twin.’ Enter a balloon. In a new study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech were successful … Read more
NASA is struggling to fix an issue with a 1980s-era computer that controls science instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope, a week after it stopped working. The telescope, a partnership between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), has been in space over 30 years and made countless astronomical discoveries. The computer stopped working on Sunday, … Read more