The US space agency’s New Horizon’s spacecraft will soon make the most distant flyby of a cosmic object ever, zipping by an object called Ultima Thule — a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on January 1 NASA Images
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Videographic on the InSight mission. InSight’s primary goal is to study how the solar system’s rocky planets, including Earth, formed and evolved. The robot is now expected to arrive on Mars on November 26. NASA images
Videographic locating a huge meteorite crater discovered in Greenland. The crater is the first of its kind ever found there — or under any of the Earth’s ice sheets — and is among the 25 largest known on Earth. NASA images
After liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on august 11, the Parker Solar Probe will become the first to fly directly into the sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona.
The lunar eclipse of 2018 will be visible on the 27th July in large parts of Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. Totality will last for 103 minutes, making it the longest eclipse of the 21st century.
The Grace-FO satellites, set to be launched next week, will monitor how large bodies of water move around the Earth.
Virtual and augmented reality gadgets are expected to hog the limelight at Berlin’s mega consumer electronics show IFA this week, as Pokemon Go gave a tantalising preview of the appetite for reality-altering technologies. Videographic explaining virtual reality.
SpaceX chief Elon Musk unveiled on Tuesday ambitious plans to establish a Mars colony by sending 100 humans at a time on massive spacecraft, possibly costing as low as $100,000 per person. A brief history of Mars exploration in videographics.
Biologists say they have devised a new weapon against malaria by genetically engineering mosquitoes to produce mostly male offspring, with the hope of eventually wiping out the vectors of the killer disease.
Lightning is a huge spark of electricity. It strikes when an electric current is able to travel through what would normally be an insulating material, in this case the air.
Eye-tracking data can reveal a wealth of information about what interests us and attracts our attention — from where we look, to what we block out and how our pupils respond to visual stimuli.