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Nasa’s moon rocket moved to launch pad ahead of debut flight

Nasa’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad on Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322ft rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late on Tuesday, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Centre workers. It took nearly 10 hours ...

17 Aug 2022 at 15:29

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WATCH: Nasa tests defence technology by crashing spacecraft into asteroid

Nasa has successfully crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid as part of a planetary protection test mission. While this asteroid – named Dimorphos – posed no threat to Earth, the aim of the mission was to demonstrate that dangerous incoming ...

27 Sept 2022 at 10:56

National News

Nasa postpones its launch of moon rocket because of tropical storm

Nasa is postponing next week’s launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that’s expected to become a major hurricane. It’s the third delay in the past month for Artemis I, the lunar-orbiting test flight featuring ...

24 Sept 2022 at 19:16

Arts & Entertainment

James Webb telescope shows spectacular photos of the outermost planet

Nasa has released new shots of Neptune, the solar system’s outermost planet, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The pictures, taken in July, show not only Neptune’s thin rings, but its faint dust bands, never before observed in ...

22 Sept 2022 at 13:30

National News

James Webb telescope reaches final destination, a million miles from Earth

A month after it lifted off on a quest to discover the dawn of the universe, the world’s most powerful space telescope has reached its final destination a million miles from Earth. The 10 billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope ...

25 Jan 2022 at 11:35

Arts & Entertainment

LISTEN: NASA releases recording of what a black hole sounds like

Ever wondered what a black hole sounds like in our galaxy? Now is your chance as US space agency NASA has released a rare recording of a black hole which has listeners intrigued. This certain black hole lies in the center of a ...

24 Aug 2022 at 12:04

National News

Mars rover collecting samples to determine if there was life on the red planet

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has collected the first rock samples from Mars that could be returned to Earth in the first step towards answering if the red planet ever hosted life. The samples come from the floor of Jezero crater,...

27 Aug 2022 at 14:54

National News

'On the brink of something really exciting' - New moon rocket from Nasa set to launch

Nasa is set to launch its new Moon rocket on Monday, marking the next chapter in putting humans back on the Moon. The flight is the first in the agency’s Artemis programme and will be uncrewed this time. However, there will ...

27 Aug 2022 at 12:33

Arts & Entertainment

Nasa spacecraft makes close approach to Jupiter moon Europa

Nasa’s Juno spacecraft has made the closest approach to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in more than 20 years. Juno on Thursday zipped within 222 miles of Europa, thought to have an ocean flowing beneath its thick frozen crust, ...

01 Oct 2022 at 10:46

National News

'It's all quite incredible' - James Webb Telescope captures dramatic new images of Jupiter

The world’s newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before – auroras and all. Scientists released the shots of the solar system’s biggest planet on Monday. The James Webb Space Telescope took the ...

22 Aug 2022 at 17:53

National News

38-year-old NASA satellite set to fall from sky this weekend

A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky. NASA said the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low”. Most of the 5,400lb (2,450-kilogram) satellite will burn up upon re-entry, ...

07 Jan 2023 at 10:01

National News

NASA launches spacecraft destined to crash into rogue meteors

A NASA mission to deliberately crash a spacecraft into an asteroid to demonstrate the world's first planetary defence system, lifted off from its base at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday ...

24 Nov 2021 at 15:14

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