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08 December, 2023
By Charles Nwali
On Friday, Dec. 8, Halley’s Comet will commence with its 38-year journey to Earth. The popular space rock orbits the sun following a flattened elliptical orbit that drives it near to our star before taking...
08 December, 2023
By Charles Nwali
China is one of the top space agencies hoping to retrieve samples from the Martian terrain. While NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are already making plans to return samples from the Mars Perseverance...
08 December, 2023
By Charles Nwali
Finding signs of life in the Universe has remained the primary objective of most astrobiologists. In the last decade when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was still in operation in the Saturnian system, it turned...
08 December, 2023
By Charles Nwali
India recently announced its long-term vision for lunar exploration. The country is looking forward to establishing a base on the moon before 2050.Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman...
07 December, 2023
By Charles Nwali
SpaceX just launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit in the early hours of Thursday (December 7). The batch of 23 Starlink spacecraft stacked atop a Falcon 9 rocket for orbital...
06 December, 2023
By Charles Nwali
Astronomers recently discovered one of the building blocks of life in our Milky Way Galaxy. The researchers used two radio telescopes to detect the key life ingredient, phosphorous on the edge of the Milky...