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NASA’s Parker Probe: Fastest object ever built to make closest approach to sun today | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The fastest object ever built by humans will fly within a whisker of the sun today. The Parker Solar Probe will race past at 435,000mph as it studies the sun’s surface and atmosphere. That’s so fast it would cover the distance between London and New York in just 29 seconds. It has picked up such…
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Mystery object that crashed into Florida home last month was ‘discarded space junk’, NASA says | Science & Tech News
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A mystery object that fell from the sky before crashing into a home in Florida last month was a piece of space junk, NASA has said. The space agency said on Monday the cylindrical chunk of metal, which weighed 0.7kg (1.6lbs) and was 10cm (four inches) tall and around 4cm (1.5 inches) wide had been…
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Mysterious new object found in Milky Way that could be black hole-star pairing | Science & Tech News
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A new and mysterious object has been discovered in the Milky Way and could be a combination of a black hole and a special type of star. Found 40,000 light years away in our galaxy, the potentially new type of space entity appears to have unique qualities. It falls within what researchers call the ‘black…