NASA fires off printed rockets
NASA has successfully tested the most complex rocket engine parts ever designed by the agency and printed with additive manufacturing – or 3D printing – on a test stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre.
NASA decodes black hole rhythm
Astronomers have uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare type of black hole, 12-million light-years away, by sifting through archival data from NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite. The signals have helped astronomers identify an unusual midsize...
Asteroid impacts changed Earth
New research has highlighted the impact giant asteroids had on the shaping of the surface of the Earth.
New galaxy, seen 9,6bn years ago
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass. It pictures how the galaxy looked 9,6-billion years ago, with the monster elliptical galaxy breaking the previous record-holder by 200-million years.
