In a landmark discovery, NASA researchers have revealed data indicating that Venus, long believed to be a barren, hot desert planet, might indeed be geologically active. The new discovery overturns long-standing theories about the surface of the planet and its inactivity with respect to tectonic motion. Using advanced modeling techniques, scientists re-examined decades-old radar data…
Launched more than 50 years ago, the Soviet-era Kosmos 482 probe is due to reenter Earth this month in an uncontrolled fashion. Part of a 1972 mission to Venus, the spacecraft was unable to escape Earth’s gravity when its rocket failed. Trapped ever since in low Earth orbit, the spacecraft has been slowly falling. Now,…
Xavier Le Pichon, a French geophysicist whose pioneering model of the earth’s tectonic plates helped revolutionize how scientists understand movements of the earth’s crust, died on March 22 at his home in Sisteron, in the south of France. He was 87. His death was announced in a statement by the Collège de France, France’s highest…
Crew members will attempt to exit the spacecraft without medical assistance after re-entry, helping researchers study astronauts’ post-spaceflight capabilities. Unlike previous missions, Earth’s polar regions have remained unseen by astronauts, including those aboard the ISS and Apollo missions. (Photo: AP) Source link
SpaceX launched the “Fram2 mission” on Tuesday (local time), marking the first human spaceflight over Earth’s polar regions.The privately funded mission will carry four astronauts on a days-long orbital journey. Fram2 is named after the famous 19th-century Norwegian ship used for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Poll Do you believe private companies will play a significant…
SpaceX is gearing up for a historic mission, set to launch the first human spaceflight over Earth’s polar regions. The privately funded Fram2 mission will carry four astronauts on a four-day orbital journey.The launch is scheduled from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the crew aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon…
Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore (ANI and AP images) Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have finally returned to Earth on Tuesday, marking the end of nine-months extended and unplanned stay in space. Their SpaceX capsule successfully splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, just hours…
With the addition of 2024, yet another record-hot year, the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest in nearly 200 years of record-keeping, the World Meteorological Organization reports. “That’s never happened before,” said Chris Hewitt, the director of the W.M.O.’s climate services division. It marks the first time since record keeping began that all…
A private company is aiming to heave a microwave oven-size spacecraft toward an asteroid later this week, its goal to kick off a future where precious metals are mined around the solar system to create vast fortunes on Earth. “If this works out, this will probably be the biggest business ever conceived of,” said Matt…
Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s. The world’s glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons (231 billion metric tons) annual from 2000 to 2011, but that…