Something of a late addition to this part of the site, in this post I tell you why you should have bought everyone’s favourite space rocket simulator-come-game yesterday.
UPDATE (May 2): NASA has regained full control over the Opportunity rover after uploading a new set of commands on May 1.
X-ray data from the Chandra observatory has shed new light on the origin of “Kepler’s Supernova”, first seen in 1604 by Johannes Kepler himself.
NASA announced on April 6 that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been selected for development in its latest round of Explorer-class mission proposals. The satellite is scheduled to launch in 2017.
Multiple millionaire Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the Blue Origin aerospace company, has successfully recovered some of the massive F-1 engines from Apollo era Saturn V rocket debris on the ocean floor.
The Planck mission has released a new sky map of the cosmic microwave background radiation – the after-echo of the Big Bang, revealing unprecedented detail.