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The Perseid meteor shower is set to peak on 12 August. Expected to produce up to 150 meteors per hour, it is one of the brightest shooting star displays of the year. Here are what you need to know about the meteor shower.
Space
The Perseid meteor shower is set to peak on 12 August. Expected to produce up to 150 meteors per hour, it is one of the brightest shooting star displays of the year. Here are what you need to know about the meteor shower.
Space
The Perseid meteor shower is set to peak on 12 August. Expected to produce up to 150 meteors per hour, it is one of the brightest shooting star displays of the year. Here are what you need to know about the meteor shower.
Space
Nasais looking for a Planetary Protection Officer to protect the Earth from aliens. The role involves preventing astronauts and robots from biological contamination during space exploration. The US governments site posted the job, which is open to US citizens and nationals. They will pay you a six figure salary up to $187,000 a year.
Space
Nasa released a breathtaking time-lapse video on Friday (30 June) captured by Expedition 52 that showcases a rotating view of the Earth as an aurora dances above its surface on 25 June.
Space
In the Milky Way alone, there are millions of stars and billions of planets, many of which are potentially habitable, meaning they could have the conditions right for life. With an estimated two trillion galaxies in the universe, the universe should be teeming with alien life. So where is it?
Society
NASA is displaying a concept Mars rover passenger vehicle that the space agency hopes will inspire public interest in interplanetary travel. The rover, which looks like an SUV that may have been designed for Batman, seats six humans. It is meant to be a general design concept for the kinds of vehicles that could potentially transport explorers across the surface of the red planet.
Space
Newly released footage from NASA shows an ultra high definition view of Europe as the International Space Station orbited 250 miles above the Earth.
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Newly released footage from NASA shows an ultra high definition view of Europe as the International Space Station orbited 250 miles above the Earth.
Space
Scientists have discovered mystery signals coming from a star 11 light years away. The very peculiar pulses appear to be unique to the red dwarf, scientists say, with observations of similar nearby stars showing no similar behavior.
Space
Two years after its New Horizons spacecraft sent the first images of Pluto, NASA has created two flyby videos by compiling data received from the mission. The videos were released July 7 to celebrate the second anniversary of the spacecraft flying within 7.800 miles of Pluto. It released two videos, one of Pluto itself and a second of Plutos largest moon, Charon.
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A robot scuttles across a dry and arid moonscape but it is not in outer space, it is on Europes most active volcano, Mount Etna, and being used for research by the German Aerospace Centre, testing robots ahead of the next mission to the moon.
Society
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite captured the moment of a gigantic solar eruption on June 19. NOAA spokesman John Leslie said the footage showed NOAAs ability to track potentially dangerous space weather.
Society
From the pages of Playboy Magazine to the lightsaber from Star Wars and KFCs fried chicken sandwich, here are 5 weird objects that were sent to space or are going up in space this year.
Space
In the last four centuries, this latest would be asteroid 2014 JO25's closest approach to Earth made so far and it will remain the nearest one for around next five centuries.
Space
The Event Horizon Telescope is the product of a global collaboration between 13 institutes, representing 10 different nations.
Society
IBT Singapore has compiled a collection of images representing some of the most impressive views in our universe.
Science
Alien theorists believe a mysterious unknown object, an 'alien probe', is set to fly past Earth in 2017.