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We answer some common questions about the America's Perseverance rover mission to...
We answer some common questions about the America's Perseverance rover mission to...
The completion of the BeiDou-3 navigation system comes as tensions rise between Beijing and...
Tracking wildlife before, during and after lockdown will aim to analyse the slowdown in human...
Tukwila, Wash.-based LeoStella cast a spotlight today on the delivery of its first two built-from-scratch satellites for the BlackSky Earth-watching constellation — with their launch on a SpaceX rocket set for Thursday. In a news release, LeoStella said the two 110-pound satellites were delivered to Florida on June 1 in preparation for liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. They'll...
MONDAY 22. JUNE 2020
The milestone comes as Siberia — and the Asian continent as a whole — have experienced unusually warm conditions since the start of...
Temperatures are believed to have hit 38C (100F) in one Siberian town after a persistent...
Large-scale tree planting to fight climate change may backfire, two new studies have...
The findings could have a big impact on future space...
Virgin Galactic says it has signed an agreement with NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas to develop a new readiness program for private-sector astronauts heading to the International Space Station. Theoretically, such astronauts could include the likes of Tom Cruise, who is looking into making a movie at the space station, according to NASA. "I'm all for that," NASA...
"This is an unprecedented find of major significance within the UK," said archaeologist Vincent...
Just 1.5% of top bosses at UK companies are black. compared to 3% of the...
SUNDAY 21. JUNE 2020
Scientists have proposed tethering asteroids together to prevent them from hitting Earth -- and without creating...
Skywatchers photographed the "ring of fire", where the moon passes between the Earth and the...
This leaves four-fifths - twice the area of Mars - still to be surveyed to a modern...
SATURDAY 20. JUNE 2020
Why lockdown silence was golden for science. From acoustic engineers in Britain to marine biologists in Canada, researchers made the most of the drastic drop in noise from human...
It has only been visited once before, 30 years...
With the discovery of thousands of exoplanets over the years, NASA Is now funding research into technological civilizations in the...
Sixty years after his father did it first, Kelly Walsh dives to the deepest point in Earth's...
By Troy Sutton, The ConversationIt’s quiet in the laboratory, almost peaceful. But I’m holding live SARS-CoV-2 in my hands and this virus is not to be taken lightly.As I dilute the coronavirus to infect cultured cells, I hear the reassuring sound of purified air being blown by my respirator into my breathing space. There are three layers of nitrile and protective materials between me and the...
As a new commercial-centric era dawns for the International Space Station, Boeing is realigning its top managers for the space station program — and for the program that's working to send Starliner capsules there and back. Mark Mulqueen, who has served as Boeing's space station program manager since 2015, will be retiring July 2. During his 35 years at Boeing, Mulqueen has served in a...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signaled today that astronauts would soon be cleared to take suborbital spaceflights aboard the commercial rocket ships being tested by Virgin Galactic and by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture. "NASA is developing the process to fly astronauts on commercial suborbital spacecraft," Bridenstine said in a tweet. "Whether it’s...
FRIDAY 19. JUNE 2020
Crimson sunrises and sunsets will paint the eastern Texas sky next week, most likely not as any ill omen for the remaining months of 2020, but from dust.An "abnormally large dust cloud" from the Sahara is making about a 5,000-mile trek across the Atlantic, heralding the chance of red sunrises and sunsets across the Gulf Coast and suppressing tropical development in the Atlantic Basin....
Space Perspective said it wants to fly Spaceship Neptune, a 650-foot vehicle that includes a balloon and tethered capsule, for flights with...
Scientists estimate "lost allotments" in the UK could have provided 6% of the population with their "five-a-day"...
A new Russian-German space observatory produces the most detailed ever all-sky image seen in...