Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ digital tool helps businesses looking to go electric
The newly launched Van Fuel Advisor (EV4me) tool supports businesses in selecting the engine type best suited to their working…
Observatory opens doors for new light nights festival
AN OBSERVATORY which usually welcomes visitors to gaze at the night sky is making the most of the summer with…
Shining a Light on Dark Matter
Dark matter, although invisible, makes up most of the universe’s mass and creates its underlying structure. Dark matter’s gravity drives…
Rocket-Borne Telescope Detects Super-Fine Strands on the Sun
New images from a NASA sounding rocket provide the highest-resolution views ever captured of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona,…
Hubble Finds Best Evidence for Elusive Mid-Sized Black Hole
Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class…
Interstellar Comet Borisov Reveals Its Chemistry and Possible Origins
On Aug. 30, 2019, when amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov gazed upward with his homemade telescope, he spotted an object moving…
Hubble Spots Stretching Spiral
This sparkling spiral galaxy looks almost stretched across the sky in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.…
This Week in NASA History: Apollo 16 Launches – April 16, 1972
This week in 1972, Apollo 16 launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Apollo 16 was the second of three science-oriented…
30 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope
On April 25, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery. Here, Hubble…
Hubble Hooks a One-Arm Galaxy
NGC 4618 was discovered on April 9, 1787, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel, who also discovered Uranus in 1781.…
Business Durham to lead North East space and satellite innovation
Business Durham has been appointed to lead the North East Satellite Applications Centre of Excellence until March 2022, having successfully…
How NASA’s Perseverance Mars Team Has Adjusted to Work in the Time of Coronavirus
From the moment the mission began in 2013, the women and men working on what would become NASA’s Perseverance Mars…
NASA’s Webb Telescope to Unravel Riddles of a Stellar Nursery
A bustling stellar nursery in the picturesque Orion Nebula will be a subject of study for NASA’s James Webb Space…