After two unsuccessful efforts due to adverse weather, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space enterprise, SpaceX, launched another Falcon 9 rocket into orbit on Monday. The night sky above Southern California was illuminated when the Falcon 9, carrying 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit, took launch from the Vandenberg Space Force Base. The rocket launched at […]
San Francisco: SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who claims to be living in a modest $50,000; 37-square-metre prefab guest house in Boca Chica; Texas, has bought a $250,000 ticket to space from fellow billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. The Wall Street Journal reports that Musk had bought a ticket for his space ride before […]
British billionaire Richard Branson flew into space on Sunday aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel; a voyage he described as the “experience of a lifetime” ; Also, one he hopes will usher in an era of lucrative space tourism. “Congratulations to all our wonderful team at Virgin Galactic for 17 years of hard, hard work to […]
Personality vs. Handwriting Our personality is a combo of our inner emotions and outer expressions. There are various ways we can deduce an individual’s personality. Even handwriting. Yes. I know it sounds crazy but a person’s handwriting tells you a lot about them. So, let’s do a quick and fun experiment. Go ahead and write […]
If you look at the sky at night you can see many stars. Some of these are not stars but planets. They shine because they reflect the light of other stars. Some of the planets you see at night are actually revolving around the sun, just like our own planet Earth. These planets, together with […]
WASHINGTON: The US space probe Osiris-Rex on Monday left the orbit of the asteroid Bennu; from which it collected dust samples last year, to begin its long journey back to Earth. The probe still has a vast distance to cover before it lands in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023. Osiris-Rex is “now moving […]
The idea of the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope, or LCRT, has been in development for ages. The project just received a $500,000 boost upon entering the second phase of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program. The lunar telescope would involve robots hanging wire mesh within a crater on the moon’s far side to create a radio […]
A Long March 5B rocket carrying a platform for a Chinese space station lifts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Wenchang, southern Hainan Province of China, in this April 29, 2021, file photo released by the China’s Xinhua News Agency. The central rocket section that launched the 22.5-ton heart of the newest space […]
Scientists say they have observed water vapor escaping high up in the thin atmosphere of Mars. It is offering exciting new clues as to whether the Red Planet could have once hosted life. The traces of ancient valleys and river channels suggest liquid water once flowed across the surface of Mars. Today, the water is […]
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics this Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes. Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany, and Andrea Ghez explained to the world these dead ends of the cosmos that prey light and even time. According to both science fact and fiction, black holes are still […]
