Experts at the Seti Institute, an organisation dedicated to tracking extraterrestrial intelligence, are developing state-of-the-art techniques to detect signatures from space that indicate the possibility of extraterrestrial existence.
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Two defunct satellites, racing across the sky at around 53 000km/h, narrowly missed smashing into each other on Thursday. They may have come within 47m of each other at their closest approach.
Elon Musk’s rocket company has one last, major hurdle to clear before it attempts an historic first flight of astronauts for Nasa: proving it can safely abort a mission if something goes wrong after takeoff.
Scientists claim to have created the world’s first living robots using stem cells from frog embryos. The tiny hybrids are “entirely new lifeforms” known as xenobots and are able to move about.
A few months ago, a group of Nasa exoplanet astronomers, who are in the business of discovering planets around other stars, called me into a secret meeting to tell me about a planet that had captured their interest.
Around two-thirds of the satellites orbiting Earth are dead, posing a “very big danger” to the planet, European space ministers have heard.
Nasa has revealed a concept of what a future moon lander might look like, as it aims to return astronauts to the moon by 2024.
In the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of quantum mechanics, two different observers are entitled to their own facts.
China invited observers to a successful test of its Mars lander as the country pushes for inclusion in more global space projects.
Nasa’s Voyager 2 has reported back with its initial cosmic findings, a year after becoming the second man-made object to “leave” the solar system.