Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed that the Justice Department move forward with a probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation following the recent release of documents aimed at undermining the legitimacy of the enquiry that established that Moscow interfered on the Republican’s behalf in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Bondi has directed a…
An 80-year-old Agra-born adventurer-cum-businessman, Arvinder ‘Arvi’ Singh Bahal, lifted off to the edge of space aboard Blue Origin’s NS-34 mission along with five other crew members on Sunday. The suborbital flight lifted off from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas at 6:00 p.m. IST, marking another milestone in private human spaceflight.Bahal was part…
In a rare and remarkable scientific achievement, scientists have detected a 13-billion-year-old microwave signal from a period known as the Cosmic Dawn. It is a time just after the Big Bang when the first stars and galaxies began to form. What makes this achievement remarkable is that the signal was picked up not from space,…
In the early 2000s, a coronavirus infecting bats jumped into raccoon dogs and other wild mammals in southwestern China. Some of those animals were sold in markets, where the coronavirus jumped again, into humans. The result was the SARS pandemic, which spread to 33 countries and claimed 774 lives. A few months into it, scientists…
Though women remain severely underrepresented in the aerospace field worldwide, they do regularly escape the Earth’s atmosphere. More than 100 have gone to space since Sally Ride became the first American woman to do so in 1983. If an all-women spaceflight were chartered by, say, NASA, it might represent the culmination of many decades of…
(Blue Origin’s all-female crew returns safely on Earth after spaceflight | Image source: BBC) In a milestone for commercial spaceflight and gender representation in space, six women—including global celebrities and professionals from diverse fields—safely returned to Earth after completing a suborbital journey aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. The mission, launched on April 14, 2025,…
What do you wear for your first trip to space? If you are like most people, probably whatever spacesuit or astronaut outfit the company (or government agency) you are flying with provides. However, if you are Lauren Sánchez — journalist, pilot, children’s book author, philanthropist and fiancée of Jess Bezos — the second-richest man on…
In a record-breaking crossover between the space and entertainment industries, international pop icon Katy Perry will be blasting off into space aboard Blue Origin‘s next NS-31 mission. It’s a historic first, with Perry set to join an all-female crew—the last time a space mission had an all-female crew was in 1963, when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina…
Blue Origin’s all-female space mission with Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez launches April 14 Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is preparing to launch its 11th human spaceflight mission, NS-31, featuring a groundbreaking all-female crew. This event marks a pivotal moment in commercial spaceflight history and global…
In this image from video provided by SpaceX, the company’s SpaceX’s Falcon rocket, carrying NASA’s newest space telescope, Spherex, lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Nasa’s latest space telescope was launched into orbit on Tuesday with the mission to create an unprecedented map of the entire sky, observing hundreds of millions of galaxies and…