DUBAI: The Senior Director and Project Manager of Emirates Mars Mission, Omran Sharaf, is also the Director of the Programmes Management Department at the UAE Space Agency’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre gave some insights on space missions. Working with […]
The first NASA mission to fly by a total of eight ancient asteroids is ready for launch. Weather conditions will be 90% favorable on the morning of October 16, when the Lucy mission is set to leave Cape Canaveral Space […]
Astronomers have picked up a bizarre set of radio signals coming from the centre of our Milky Way. Experts are particularly confused by this set of signals because they don’t match any known astrophysical radio source. Ziteng Wang from the […]
DUBAI: Expo launches Space Week in the upcoming days, presenting an array of content, discussions, and more that will probe the benefits, solutions, and challenges of exploring beyond our planet’s orbit. The out-of-this-world event, which runs from October 17-23 and […]
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates Space Agency announced the commencement of a new Emirati interplanetary mission, designed to further accelerate the young nation’s space engineering, scientific research, and exploration capabilities and drive innovation and opportunity in the country’s private sector. […]
Telescopes are time machines. One day, they could take us to a time before starlight. When astronomers peer out into the vast distances of space, they’re also looking back in time. That’s because faraway light takes a long time to […]
In a recent publication featured in University of Florida Press’ new book, “Picturing the Space Shuttle: The Early Years” several rare NASA images have come to life. It chronicles the shuttle program from 1965 until 1982, ending just a year […]
NASA keeps a keen eye on Near-earth Objects (NEO) through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena. Recently, the observatory-cum-laboratory traced the 1000th near-earth asteroid (NEA), named ‘2021 PJ1,’ as it passed by Earth at a distance of 1.7 million kilometres. […]
UAE’s space program has now set its course for the moon. The space mission named the Emirates Lunar Mission is aimed to visit the moon by 2024 via the Rashid lunar rover. It has now begun temperature testing. Recent visuals […]
The biggest planet of our solar system, Jupiter will be appearing bigger and brighter on August 20, 2021. Mighty Jupiter will be in opposition to the sun on the night of August 20. That’s when Earth will fly between the […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates: The Kindergarten Starters has been approved to become an all-through school from the beginning of the 2021-22 academic year, serving students from kindergarten all the way up to Grade 12. As a result, the school will […]