Boeing launches new capsule on first test flight with NASA astronauts toward the space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing launches new capsule on first test flight with NASA astronauts toward the space station.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing launches new capsule on first test flight with NASA astronauts toward the space station.
Trapped Gases NASA has released a new visualization that shows copious amounts of carbon dioxide swirling around the Earth's atmosphere. The video shows how concentrations of the gas move across the planet, driven by wind and atmospheric circulation, from January through March 2020. The level of detail is truly astonishing, allowing us to "zoom in […]
Mighty Likely NASA's Perseverance Rover has found a rock on Mars that scientists believe may contain signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. As the New York Times reports, NASA researchers aren't quite ready to declare that they've found definitive biosignatures — the scientific term for "signs of life" — in the piece of ancient […]
NASA's $450 million lunar explorer, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), will not be going to the Moon. Something else will be taking its place, though — and given the costs involved, the decision is bound to raise a few eyebrows, if not serious questions about the space agency's budget situation. The rover, which […]
A Taiwanese startup aims to become the first foreign firm to launch a rocket from Japan by early next year, part of a plan industry advocates say will aid Tokyo's ambitions of becoming a space hub in Asia. The planned suborbital launch by TiSpace has faced regulatory hurdles and delays amid questions over whether Japan should embrace overseas business as part of its effort to double the size of its 4 trillion yen ($26 billion) space industry over the next decade. The private firm, co-founded in 2016 by current and former officials from Taiwan's space agency, has not had a successful launch.
Pinpoint Stars In 2003, when the International Space Station was a mere three years old, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit took a gorgeous picture of the Earth's atmosphere, with countless stars frozen in time in the background. But as Pettit revealed in a Reddit post earlier this week, the same photo "cannot be taken anymore" — […]
A Martian rock sample collected by Perseverance contains "chemical signatures and structures" that could've been formed by ancient microbial life from billions of years ago.
The shark never resumed feeding or other normal behavior after the collision, researchers say
Seven-year-old James dug up a prototomus tooth during an activity at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival.
The FAA said it did not find any public safety issues in the anomaly that occurred during the failed July 11 launch and the rocket can return to flight operations while the overall investigation continues. SpaceX said in a post on X that it was ready to return the rocket to flight as soon as Saturday, July 27. In a statement on Thursday, SpaceX said that a liquid oxygen leak led to excessive cooling of one of its engine components and damaged its hardware.
It may be the smallest planet in the solar system but Mercury could be hiding a big secret. A layer of diamond beneath the crust of Mercury could be up to 10 miles (18km) thick, new research suggests. The researchers think two processes could have resulted in the diamond layer.
Mounting evidence shows rainfall is becoming increasingly variable, making the dry times drier and the wet much wetter. New findings confirm research into rainfall variability in Australia.
The changes have come at a time when extreme weather, market conditions and sudden rises in input costs are putting farms under immense pressure.
A man accused of a series of sexual assaults on his wedding night and honeymoon has been found not guilty on all charges in a Sydney court.
The "Late Show" host mocked the former president over one curious claim.
Commuters were noticeably annoyed by the disturbance, one man told Yahoo, and were 'shifting away' from the men in question.
The former president put debate plans on pause, and critics are calling him out over it.
"Something about the question mark after 'old and quite weird' is taking me out."
Rafa Nadal has left the tennis world stunned. Find out more here.
Hundreds of Aussie tourists are being denied entry into Indonesia’s island paradise for one reason.
The royal staff member reportedly let go is a relative of Queen Camilla.