11 September 2019
First detection of atmospheric water vapour on 'super-Earth' in habitable zone
For nearly 30 years now, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionised humanity’s understanding of the cosmos, from helping to confirm the existence of supermassive black holes to determining the age of the Universe and now it ...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
... world and in orbit will help us learn even more about the different outbursts that light up the cosmos,” concluded Padi Boyd, a TESS project scientist at Goddard. If in the meantime, if you want to see a striking visualisation of how...
15 November 2019
First public test of Mars lander for China ahead of 2020 launch
... National Space Administration. During his welcome speech, Zhang said that the exploration for the vast cosmos is a shared dream for all mankind. The meeting was also a chance for China to carry out space...
02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
... in the dark about what could have been occurring. It is widely accepted that most of the matter in the cosmos at this stage was dark matter with the scant remaining ordinary matter comprised largely of neutral hydrogen...
