This asteroid is so precious that it could cause the collapse of the global economy. The space object is located between Mars and Jupiter, about 750,000 million kilometers from Earth, and contains many heavy metals – for example gold, iron and nickel – for every inhabitant of the planet to receive a trillion dollars. NASA […]
Welcome to “On This Day … in Space!” where we peer back in our archives to find historic moments in spaceflight and astronomy. So enjoy a blast from the past with Space.com’s Hanneke Weitering to look back at what happened on this day in space! On April 28, 2001, the world’s first space tourist hitched […]
In late April, skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will get a view of the Lyrid meteor shower, the dusty trail of a comet with a centuries-long orbit around the sun. The Lyrid meteors streak across the sky between April 16 and April 25, so skywatchers have a chance to see them during that window, weather […]
