Leonardo da Vincis painting, Saviour of the World, sold for $450m on 15 November. The price, which includes a buyers premium, makes it the most expensive painting ever sold at an auctionNov 16, 2017
According to Nasa, the space nuclear reactor tech could literally empower future Mars habitats, transforming Mars resources into water, oxygen and fuel – all the necessary requirements for humans to live on Mars long-term.The Kilopower could produce continuous electricity for 10 or more years in the harsh and extreme environments of the Red Planet. The technology is not dependent on solar power, which means that it could meet power demands even at night or during prolonged sunlight-reducing dust storms.Nov 16, 2017
A fireball flew across the sky over Phoenix, Arizona, at around 8:30pm on Tuesday, 14 November. This video was captured on a security camera from the Chandler Police Departments Chandler Heights Substation.Nov 16, 2017
European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) astronomers at the La Silla Observatory in Chile discovered that the red dwarf star Ross 128 is orbited by an 'exoplanet' every 9.9 days.Nov 16, 2017
A dash of light which was a meteor was spotted in Phoenix. According to the Arizona Republic, the incident occurred around 8:30 pm on November 15.Nov 16, 2017
The launch of NASA satellite which will be used to study the behaviour of plasma located in the Earth's ionosphere has been shifted to early next year.Nov 11, 2017
Abu Dhabi opens its Louvre museum on 11 November, positioning itself as a city of cultural tourism with a display of hundreds of works that it hopes will draw visitors from around the world.Nov 10, 2017
Over a period of two-and-a-half years, NASAs Hubble Space Telescope observed the light echo of supernova SN 2014J in galaxy M82, located 11.4 million light-years away. The echo happens when light from the explosion bounces off a cloud of a giant cloud of gas and dust near the supernova.Nov 10, 2017
NASA' Planetary Defence Coordination Office is developing the test of a technology that could be further developed to prevent asteroid impacts.Nov 6, 2017