Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis stepped out of their Dragon Crew capsule to complete the first spacewalks on a privately funded mission. All four crew members donned newly designed spacesuits because the entire capsule was depressurized for the manoeuvre.
When a National Geographic documentary team discovered a boot and sock sticking out of a melting glacier on Mount Everest in September, they almost immediately recognized its significance as a clue to a century-old mystery.
DNA analysis sheds new light on the fate of the men in Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic voyage to explore the Northwest Passage, according to the latest research.
Two new shipwrecks aren’t all they found.
Full Steam Ahead NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was used to spot a completely new kind of alien planet: a watery, far-off "steam world" comprised almost entirely of hot water vapor. As detailed in a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the planet — unceremoniously known as GJ 9827 — is twice […]
A great white shark has been found dead on the coast of Haida Gwaii in northern B.C..It was discovered by Mike Miles, who says he saw it while driving just south of Tlell, B.C., off Haida Gwaii's east coast."I thought I was seeing a young orca, then thought it was a beaked whale," he told CBC News via text message. "Then, a great white shark! Cool and a bit sad."He reported it to the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), which has confirmed the species, saying it was a male measuring
Most animals retreated to small, warmer enclaves. But some, like humans, seemed to have stayed where they were.
Lunar Lodestar SpaceX is readying up for the next test flight of its Starship rocket — and NASA is officially pretty hyped about it, SpaceNews reports. The rocket's last test flight — the fourth — was in June, which saw both Starship's upper and lower stages survive re-entry. Now, after a long wait, the fifth […]
Get Wrecked New NASA data shows a supermassive black hole on a ______ killing spree, destroying one star before hunting down another. The discovery, made with the help of NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope “Imagine a diver repeatedly going into a pool and creating a splash every time she enters the water,” […]
Comet A3 hasn't been past Earth since the Neanderthals. It'll be visible across the Northern Hemisphere in October; here's where and when to view it.
We'll share when, where, and how to capture the beautiful scenes on your phone.
Another in a series of unusually strong solar storms hitting Earth produced stunning skies full of pinks, purples, greens and blues farther south than normal, including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City.
Flip Flop Tens of thousands of years ago, the Earth's magnetic field flipped — and now, scientists have recreated the haunting sound it made during that cataclysmic event. Using data from the European Space Agency's three-satellite Swarm mission delving deep into our planet's magnetic field, Danish and German researchers have managed to map and recreate […]
People in the southern hemisphere have already had a glimpse of the comet, but, as it comes to within approximately 44 million miles of Earth from Saturday, it could also be seen in the northern hemisphere. It visits the inner solar system roughly every 80,000 years, so it would last have been visible from Earth when the Neanderthals were walking the planet. It comes from a place called the Oort Cloud, which, according to Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), is "an incredibly large" distance from Earth, much further away than the planets and asteroids we are used to seeing.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration approved a license on Saturday for the launch of SpaceX's Starship 5 set for Sunday after earlier saying it did not expect to make a decision until late November. The FAA said on Saturday SpaceX had "met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements for the suborbital test flight" for the fifth test of the Starship and has also approved the Starship 6 mission profile. The Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket are a fully reusable system designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon and beyond.
These powerful ‘rivers in the sky’ provide a huge share of annual precipitation in many regions, including California. They can also melt sea ice, with global climate implications.
NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane Milton forced a delay.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.
Heroic Act Researchers say they've created real-life web-slinging technology like something straight out of "Spider-Man." Their prototype won't have you swinging from buildings anytime soon, but it does nail the gist of Peter Parker's nifty gizmo. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, when the researchers' specialized fluid is […]
As an award-winning scientist, Peter Dodge had made hundreds of flights into the eyes of hurricanes — almost 400. On Tuesday, a crew on a reconnaissance flight into Hurricane Milton helped him make one more, dropping his ashes into the storm as a lasting tribute to the longtime National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration radar specialist and researcher. “We knew it was a goal of NOAA to make it happen.”
Conspiracy theories advanced by people such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene don’t take into account how much energy it would take to produce massive storms such as hurricanes.
