Watch NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Attempt to Capture a Sample of Asteroid Bennu
Tonight (Tuesday 20th October) will see NASA attempt to set its' OSIRIS-REx spacecraft down to the surface of Bennu. The mission is a first for NASA, it will the US space agency attempt to scoop up a sample and bring it home from Bennu - a small...
Space Milestone to look forward to this year
Space missions to look forward to in 2020 Last year was an excellent year for space exploration, with the icing on the Christmas cake the first ever image acquired of a black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope. This year, 2020, is set to be interesting too. Here’s...
Computer simulations reveals how the Moons huge Orientale Crater formed
A collaboration between Imperial College London and Brown University has allowed Scientists to create a new model of how they think the Orientale impact basin, a huge bullseye-shaped crater on the Moon, was formed. The Orientale crater can be found in the south-western region of the Moon (the...