NASA and SpaceX have set a date for the first crewed space mission to be launched into orbit from U.S. soil since the space shuttle fleet's retirement nearly nine years ago. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is due to launch NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship at 4:32 p.m. ET (1:32 p.m. PT) May 27, sending them to the International Space Station for an...
Today, NASA announced that its crewed SpaceX flight will launch on May 27th, The Washington Post reports. The flight will mark the first astronaut launch from US soil since 2011, and it will be the first SpaceX flight carrying passengers, not just...
An ambitious "cloud brightening" experiment has been carried out over Australia's Great Barrier Reef in an early-stage trial that scientists hope could become a futuristic way to protect coral from global warming. Results from the trial were "really, really encouraging", the project's lead scientist Daniel Harrison from Southern Cross University said on Friday. "All the research is...
A comparison of weather records since 2000 with similar time frames in past centuries has led researchers to conclude that we're in the midst of a megadrought of historic proportions. The assessment draws upon tree-ring data from nine Western states, stretching from Oregon and Idaho down through California and New Mexico, plus part of northern Mexico. The patterns in the tree rings served to...