[ad_1] Draconid meteor Yuri SmityukTASS / getty It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s another meteor shower! The draconid meteor shower occurs every October, but this year’s shooting star show is expected to peak on October 8 in the early evening and nightfall. Astronomers might even witness a few showers on the nights leading … Read more
[ad_1] Jostled by a constant flow of charged particles from the solar wind, the Earth is not without its protection. Our planet is enveloped in a bubble of magnetism called the magnetosphere, spun from deep inside the planet. As the solar wind blows, scientists have speculated that the edges of this bubble ripple in a … Read more
[ad_1] The boundary of the Earth’s magnetic bubble (blue) forms an apparently standing wave across most of its front. Credit: Imperial College London The energy of the solar wind interacting with the magnetospheric “bubble” around the Earth creates waves of energy that seem to stop. This new discovery, resulting from research by Imperial scientists, improves … Read more
[ad_1] Credit: Washington University in St. Louis A single device that generates both fuel and oxidizer from water and, when a switch is flipped, converts fuel and oxygen to electricity and water, has many application benefits land, space and military. From low environmental impact to high energy density, the development of efficient unitized regenerative fuel … Read more
[ad_1] Scientists on the OSIRIS-REx mission thought that sampling a piece of Bennu would be like a walk on the beach, but the surprisingly steep surface proved more difficult. Credit: NASA / Goddard / University of Arizona Scientists believed the surface of Asteroid Bennu would resemble a sandy beach, abundant in fine sand and pebbles, … Read more
[ad_1] As World Space Week is in full swing around the world, Disney Plus takes center stage with its fascinating new ‘Among the Stars’ docuseries lighting the fuse of six episodes starting today (6 October). Filmed over the course of two years just before the pandemic broke, this journey behind the curtain begins following veteran … Read more
[ad_1] NASA crew members of the SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station. In the photo on the left, NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada. Credit: NASA Nasa reassigned astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada to the agency EspaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station as part of the Commercial Crew Program. … Read more
[ad_1] Populations of ancient humans using Acheulean stone tools persisted in India until around 177,000 years ago, shortly before the first expansions of our own species, Homo sapiens, across Asia, according to a study released Wednesday. The oldest tool-making tradition in prehistoric times, known as the Acheulean, was characterized by oval and pear-shaped stone axes … Read more
[ad_1] Credit: NASA You may be familiar with what it feels like to see Jupiter through your own telescope. If this gives you the chills, like it does to me, then you will know what the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team felt when they turned around with their spaceship – yes, the orbiter who faithfully turns … Read more
[ad_1] He can even skate and slackline. Take it away from me Researchers at Caltech have opened the gates to hell and allowed a creepy robot that can walk on two slender feet and even fly to enter our world. The terrifying biped, called LEONARD (Drone LEgs ONboard), or LEO for short, is essentially the … Read more