NASA space probe ‘phones home’ in landmark mission to solar system’s edge
NASA’s New Horizons explorer successfully “phoned home” on Tuesday after a journey to the most distant world ever explored by ...
NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed
A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, ...
Astronauts return safely to Earth from Space Station
Three members of the International Space Station’s crew returned safely to Earth on Thursday, landing in Kazakhstan on a Russian ...
NASA deep space probe reaches asteroid deemed potential Earth threat
NASA’s deep space explorer Osiris-Rex flew on Monday to within a dozen miles of its destination, a skyscraper-sized asteroid ...
Genetics summit holds breath for Chinese baby-editing details
Organisers of a conference that has been upended by gene-edited baby revelations are holding their breath as to what the ...
Coloured bird, dinosaur eggs in same evolutionary basket
Birds have more in common with dinosaurs than previously thought as new research showed Wednesday they inherited coloured eggs ...
NASA retires its planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope
ORLANDO, Fla. : The Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and will be retired after a 9-1/2-year mission in which it detected ...
Nobel chemistry laureate Shimomura passes away at 90
He shared the 2008 Nobel prize for the discovery and development of a jellyfish protein that later contributed to cancer ...
Giant galaxy supercluster found lurking in early Universe
Scientists have discovered a primitive “supercluster” of galaxies forming in the early Universe, just 2.3 billion years ...
China to launch lunar lighting in outer space by 2020
China is planning to launch its own ‘artificial moon’ by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban ...