It is endlessly amazing that the UK is able to hold a state funeral with only 10 days’ notice, complete with gun salutes, leaders of the free world, and a procession of some 4,000 soldiers marching in time to a single pendulum. Beat… Still, ask a train operator to do something seemingly simple like take … Read more
In December 2020, a small landing capsule brought rocky particles from the asteroid Ryugu to Earth’s material from the beginnings of our solar system. In December 2020, a small landing capsule brought rocky particles from the asteroid Ryugu to Earth’s material from the beginnings of our solar system. The Japanese space probe Hayabusa 2 collected … Read more
Starting this weekend, sky hunters will be seeing a rare view of Jupiter’s grandeur as it appears to be the biggest and brightest in decades. Jupiter would be one of the coolest, if not the most, natural bodies in the night sky. On Sunday, Jupiter will reach its closest distance from Earth in 59 years … Read more
On Labor Day, 80 million people along the East Coast were under watch or flash flood warnings, while another 50 million in six western states were under severe heat warnings. With rain in parts of Georgia falling “once every 1,000 years,” Salt Lake City hit a record 103 degrees, and Long Beach, California, hit 108. … Read more
Scientists around the world are delighted with the results obtained from a 5.4-gram rock sample of the asteroid known as Ryugu. It’s not an ordinary sloppy at all. Dirt was brought from the asteroid on the Hayabusa2 spacecraft and landed in the sands of South Australia nearly two years ago. It has provided researchers with … Read more
Wellington Strike School 4 Climate Out Parliament. picture: RNZ / Crystal Gibbins Climate change protests have begun in four cities, as New Zealanders join a global climate strike. Thousands of students across the country are absent from school today – some of whom have been given permission – to join the global protests calling for … Read more
United Arab Emirates: The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC), the United Arab Emirates, and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) announced two payloads of PHI-1 missiles. Under the Memorandum of Understanding signed last year at the 72nd International Astronautical Conference (IAC) held in Dubai, the United Nations Office for Outer Space … Read more
This year, the world population will exceed eight billion. Nature faces enormous challenges, mainly because humans are consuming more than the planet can handle. At the same time, when we must work together across borders to solve these challenges, humans still squabble over politics, religion, commerce, and land, just as we have done for thousands … Read more
Register now to get free unlimited access to Reuters.com Register PARIS (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia plans to send two astronauts to the International Space Station aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX capsule, becoming the latest Gulf country to strengthen ties with private US space companies, according to three people familiar with the matter. arrangement. The sources, who … Read more
Astronomers now routinely discover planets that orbit stars outside the solar system – they are called exoplanets. But in the summer of 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found a few intriguing planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their parent stars. One planet is 30% larger than Earth and orbits its … Read more
