The Pigeon Express
A popular stop-motion sheep is about to go from Mossy Bottom Farm to the moon. Shaun, the title character from the animated television series “Shaun the Sheep,” has been assigned a space on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, targeted for launch later this month. The unusually clever Shropshire lamb will fly well beyond the moon on […]
One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions on the planet blasted such a massive amount of water vapor high into the atmosphere that it’s likely to temporarily warm the Earth’s surface, according to detections from a NASA satellite. When the undersea Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on January 15, 40 miles north of Tonga’s capital, […]
High-speed solar winds from a “hole” in the sun’s atmosphere are set to hit Earth’s magnetic field on Wednesday, triggering a minor G-1 geomagnetic storm. Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) made the prediction after observing that “gaseous material is flowing from a southern hole in the sun’s […]
A third of Russians believe that the Sun orbits the Earth, according to a survey on scientific misconceptions published on Tuesday. The number of Russians that did not believe the Earth revolves around the Sun, 35%, had grown from the 28% that believe such in 2007, VCIOM, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public […]
The temperature on the Moon can vary from boiling to freezing depending on whether it’s night or day, but scientists think there might well be sheltered pits and caves where the temperature is quite reasonable no matter what time it is. In such spots, the temperature hovers around 17 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit), according […]
On July 29, the Earth broke its record for the shortest day as it completed a full spin in 1.59 milliseconds less than its standard 24-hour rotation. According to reports, the planet recently has been increasing its speed. Back in 2020, the Earth saw its shortest month that has ever been recorded since the 1960s. […]
Debris from a Chinese rocket is expected to crash to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry this weekend. The probability of it landing in any populated area is extremely low. But it has raised questions about how different countries take responsibility for their space junk. There have previously been calls by Nasa for the Chinese space […]
China has launched the second of the three main modules that will make up its planned space station, bringing Beijing a step closer to meeting the ambitious goal of having the orbiting outpost fully operational by the end of the year. The 23-tonne laboratory module called Wentian, was carried into space by China’s most powerful […]
Astronomers detected a radio signal coming from another galaxy, which happens to be nearly 3 billion light-years away from Earth. However, this is not the first time that such a thing has happened. Once earlier, such a repeating signal was detected by scientists. The findings have been published in the science journal Nature. The researchers […]
A rocket built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin carried its fifth group of passengers to the edge of space, including the first-ever Mexican-born woman to make such a journey. The 60-foot-tall suborbital rocket took off from Blue Origin’s facilities in West Texas vaulting a group of six people to more than 62 miles above the […]
The US-New Zealand Rocket Lab company has taken a big step forward in its quest to re-use its launch vehicles by catching one as it fell back to Earth. A helicopter grabbed the booster in mid-air as it parachuted back towards the Pacific Ocean after a mission to orbit 34 satellites. The pilots weren’t entirely […]
A rocket expected to crash into the Moon in early March was built by China, not SpaceX, as originally announced by astronomy experts. A rocket will strike the lunar surface on March 4 but, contrary to what had been announced, it was built not by Elon Musk’s company, but by Beijing, experts now say. The […]