A new batch of supplies is headed to the International Space Station. Russia tonight (February 14) launched a Progress 87 robotic cargo ship on a Valentine’s Day delivery mission to the International Space Station. The cargo ship was launched on a Soyuz rocket from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:25 p.m. EST (0325 GMT,…
NASA is counting on a second spacecraft, being developed by a different company, to accomplish the first American lunar landing in over 50 years following the failure of a lunar landing mission last month. The lunar lander, also known as Odysseus, or Odie for short, is scheduled to launch on Wednesday at 12:57 a.m. ET…
Humans have been captivated by the idea of time travel for millennia, but up until recently, it was only a fictional concept. Though it’s on a small scale, scientists have found proof of actual time travel. Time reversibility during the ageing of materials is a novel study authored by Till Bohmer and Thomas Blochowicz that…
This Thursday at 1:33 a.m. EST, NASA’s satellite mission to investigate ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate for the benefit of humanity successfully launched into space. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Plankton, Aerosol, Climate, and Ocean Ecosystem satellite, or PACE, took out from Space Launch Complex 40 at…
A step closer to its historic moonshot, a private lunar lander has made progress. Today, January 31, the robotic Nova-C spacecraft got prepared for liftoff by being enclosed inside the payload fairing of its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In a call with reporters this afternoon, Trent Martin, vice president for space systems at the Houston-based…
Is Dasher in here? Is that Prancer? It’s an Ursid, not that! It’s important to remember that the Ursid meteor shower will be active in December, so don’t confuse it with a shooting star in the night sky around Christmas. Every year, around the time of the Winter Solstice, when the day grows shorter and…
A 75 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur’s stomach contained its last meal, which was remarkably well-preserved and provided information about its diet. Researchers at the University of Calgary have discovered that the hind legs of small dinosaurs that resembled birds were discovered within the stomach of the juvenile tyrannosaur Gorgosaurus libratus. Among the most fearsome carnivores of…
Saturn’s elegant rings have been a sight to behold for more than 400 years, enthralling stargazers with their cosmic splendor. But time is of the essence, and these famous rings might appear to disappear from Earthly perspective by 2025. This celestial phenomena is an optical illusion produced by the play of angles and alignment rather…
The “NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar” (NISAR) Earth observation satellite is the result of a joint venture between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is poised to transform the field of study on Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems and their effects on the global carbon cycle, ultimately impacting the dynamics of climate change.…
Boxing’s status as an Olympic sport is in doubt going forward after the International Olympic Committee said on Monday that it would be “on hold” for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. Every Olympics since 1920 have included boxing, and the Paris Games will continue this tradition. However, the International Boxing Association was essentially banned from…