Written by 
China has unveiled an ambitious road map to surpass the United States and become the world leader in space science by 2050. The national development programme for space science was released on Tuesday by the China National Space Administration, China Manned Space Agency and Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is the first such plan unveiled […]
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading… Source link
Named after the Chinese observatory and South African programme that detected it in 2023, the ‘comet of the century’ may have formed at a distance of up to 400,000 times that between Earth and the Sun. Its coma, or head, measures about 130,000 miles (209,000km) in diameter, with a tail extending 18m miles (29m km). […]
Negative space in photography is one of those features that some purist photographers often decide to keep their distance from, but it is one of the most fantastic ways of composing a photograph due to the interesting nature of its composition. What is Negative Space in Photography? Negative space, by definition, is the empty space around […]
submitted by /u/HighwayTurbulent4188 [comments] Source link
LAKE FOREST, Calif. – To cheers and applause from kids wearing spacesuits and star-studded T-shirts, a tree was planted in California that is out of this world. The so-called “Moon Tree” — grown with seeds that were flown around the moon — was wheeled out in a wagon accompanied by several students carrying […]
There are so many amazing-looking space games on the horizon, but one that’s really captured the imaginations of gamers that love to look starward is Falling Frontier. This RTS of course prides itself on strategic combat, but it also takes a leaf out of No Man’s Sky’s book by weaving in procedurally-generated solar systems. With […]
A Nasa spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search for life, but rather determine whether conditions there […]
This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. SpaceX has reached an important milestone in testing Starship, the spacecraft it wants to use for crewed missions to the Moon and Mars. Following a test launch yesterday, the Super Heavy booster that launches Starship returned to Earth and landed at its […]
Nasa is poised to send a spacecraft to a frosty moon of Jupiter where extraterrestrial life may eke out an existence in an enormous ocean hidden beneath its ice-covered surface. The Europa Clipper mission is due to blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12.06pm local time on Monday after the original plan […]