[ad_1] A SpaceX rocket carried an unprecedented number of satellites into space on Sunday, setting a new record for the most spacecraft ever deployed on a mission. Dubbed Transporter-1, the mission transported 143 spacecraft to Earth orbit, including compact nano- and microsatellites from different countries and companies. This breaks the previous record of 104 satellites, … Read more
[ad_1] January 26, 2021 – The crew of the first fully private orbital space mission will include the second oldest person to launch into space, the second Israeli in space, the 11th Canadian to fly into space and the first former astronaut from NASA to return to Earth orbit, the company’s historic flight organization announced. … Read more
[ad_1] Another interesting object is in Joe Biden’s office – a moon rock. NASA has loaned a moonstone for display in the White House Oval Office at the request of administration Joe Biden. The Moonrock now sits in the Oval Office in symbolic recognition of the ambitions and achievements of previous generations, and in support … Read more
[ad_1] When black holes swallow huge amounts of matter from the space around them, they’re not exactly subtle about it. They spit out huge flares of x-rays, generated by the material heating to intense temperatures as it is sucked into the black hole, so bright we can detect them from Earth. This is normal behavior … Read more
[ad_1] Something to look forward to: NASA’s latest explorer rover is expected to make contact with the surface of Mars next month, February 18. This is an important step for the space agency, and not just because of the rover itself: its cargo is just as important. The Perseverance rover carries the very first “Mars … Read more
[ad_1] As NASA warns of five more space rocks heading towards Earth, a Finnish astrophysicist proposes human colonization of the asteroid belt itself within the next 15 years. As Earth stretches back to the first month of 2021, NASA released a brief, advising that five other asteroids potentially between 25 and 100 meters (82 and … Read more
[ad_1] Reenactment of the life of a Spinosaurus wading in water and fishing. Credit: © Nicholls 2020 New research from Queen Mary University in London and the University of Maryland has reignited the debate around the behavior of the giant dinosaur Spinosaurus. Since its discovery in 1915, the biology and behavior of the enormous Spinosaurus … Read more
[ad_1] As the rubber and plastic burden on the planet grows steadily, scientists look to the promise of closed-loop recycling to reduce waste. Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University have discovered a potentially revolutionary new molecule with broad implications for keeping this promise. A team of scientists led by Paul Chirik, chemistry … Read more
[ad_1] Scientists have looked at what causes a strange electrical phenomenon called blue lightning. The instruments of the International Space Station did what was impossible for terrestrial scientists. According to the Science News breakdown, blue jets – which shoot up clouds of lightning into the stratosphere, rather than down to the ground – have been … Read more
[ad_1] ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change pushes global temperatures higher and higher. In total, about 28 trillion tonnes of ice have melted from the world’s sea ice, ice caps and glaciers since the mid-1990s. Each year, the rate of melting … Read more