Space exploration

NASA has struck deals with four private enterprises involving collection of Moon soil, including a contract involving a cost of just one dollar, to further its understanding of the Moon’s resources, the US space agency has said.

Newly released footage shows the dramatic final moments of the Arecibo Observatory – the second-largest radio telescope on Earth – which collapsed earlier this week, in yet another major loss for humanity in 2020.

NASA’s planetary defense specialists are warning of a close flyby due to take place on Thursday as an asteroid that’s larger than the Statue of Liberty enters Earth’s vicinity traveling at over 100,000kph.

The Chang'e-5 probe has finished collecting lunar surface samples more than a day earlier than planned, China's space agency has said.

Direct observation of live brains is difficult and requires invasive and dangerous surgery to cut through skin and bone. Now scientists can peer through skulls thanks to powerful technology borrowed from the field of astronomy.

Scientists combing through radio astronomical data have been left dumbfounded by the discovery of a series of ghostly circles hovering in space that are unlike any known type of object that has ever been discovered.