Britain pledged another £1 billion ($1.2 billion) in military aid to Ukraine Wednesday to help it fend off Russia’s invasion, including air-defence systems and drones. The fresh funds will bring Britain’s total military support to Kyiv since the start ...
A theatre sheltering civilians destroyed in March in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol was likely hit by a Russian airstrike in a war crime, Amnesty International said in a report published Thursday. “Until now, we were speaking about ...
Turkey said Wednesday it would seek the extradition of 33 alleged Kurdish militants and coup plot suspects from Sweden and Finland under a deal to secure Ankara’s support for the Nordic countries’ NATO membership bids. Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...
Moscow said Wednesday that the NATO summit in Madrid served as proof the alliance was seeking to contain Russia and that it saw Finland and Sweden’s NATO bids as a “destabilising” factor. “The summit in Madrid confirms and consolidates ...
NATO leaders meeting in Madrid Wednesday are set to label Russia a menace to their security as they overhaul the alliance’s defences in response to the war on Ukraine, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said. “We’ll state clearly that Russia ...
Iran warned the US to abandon the “Trump method” on Wednesday after the two sides opened indirect talks to revive a nuclear deal that was torpedoed by the former American president. But Iranian officials said they were hoping for ...
Sweden may have clinched a surprise deal with Turkey paving the way for its NATO membership, but Kurds and leftwing parties expressed concern Wednesday about the concessions made to Ankara. “We did not cave in to (Turkish President Recep ...
Indirect talks in Qatar’s capital between Iran and the US on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal have concluded with “no progress made”, a State Department spokesperson said late Wednesday. The negotiations in Doha were an attempt to reboot long-running ...
How to find M6 and M7. Best time to view M6 and M7 science. The clusters are in the thick of the Milky Way In a dark sky, you’ll see 2 famous star clusters – M6 and M7 – ...
The Tunguska explosion: June 30, 1908 Tunguska explosion largest in recorded history Understanding Tunguska The Chelyabinsk meteor impact Studying Tunguska to prepare for future events Future asteroid missions Photo from the Soviet Academy of Science 1927 expedition, led by ...
TALLINN, Estonia — Chinese state-owned and commercial companies are developing capabilities to launch liquid propellant rockets from sea platforms to boost the country’s launch options. China has already demonstrated the ability to launch the Long March 11 solid rocket ...
Photos of June’s deep sky A deep sky bat, squid, cat’s paws and eagle Dark nebulae A glorious star cluster in the deep sky Recurrent nova U Scorpii View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Ernest Jacobs in Eden, New ...
Earthshine is the result of sunlight reflected off Earth back toward the moon.
Liftoff is scheduled to occur Thursday during a two-hour window that opens at 6 p.m. EDT.
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Biological differences between men and women Hormonal differences Is it just humans? So how do we agree on the ideal temperature? We all have different preferences for when it’s the right time to bring out the winter blankets. And ...
The difficulty of removing stars from astrophotos Using masks to remove stars 3 quick tips for removing stars from astrophotos With the exception of targets like open star clusters, stars are generally not the main feature of astro images. ...
Asteroid ‘2021 QM1’ has been officially removed from ESA’s asteroid risk list. Another 1,377 asteroids remain. (Artist’s impression of an asteroid hurtling toward Earth.) Impact in 2052 ruled out as the European Space Agency (ESA) counts down to Asteroid Day ...
China Tianwen-1 Sends Back More Stunning Photos of Mars About Tianwen-1 Mission High-resolution photographs of the Martian south pole, where nearly all of the planet’s water resources are trapped, have been returned by China’s Tianwen-1 probe. Other views include ...
A view of Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Company in Ningbo City of east China’s Zhejiang Province. /CMG China’s leading oil producer Sinopec announced the country’s first successful trial production of bio-aviation kerosene on Tuesday, marking China’s solid step ...
NASA, Australia Launch Rocket To Identify Source of X-Rays Where Does X-ray Patch Come From? (Photo : Pixabay/Kanenori) Australia’s Historic Rocket Mission Seeks Source of X-Rays Coming From the Inner Galaxy, NASA Says NASA launched a sounding rocket from ...
The way rivers function is significantly affected by how much sediment they transport and where it gets deposited. River sediment – mostly sand, silt, and clay – plays a critical ecological role, as it provides habitat for organisms downstream ...
Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance’s Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she’s looking for. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite photograph or two from their mission. For Katie Stack Morgan, the ...
Tianwen 1, China’s historic Mars mission, has accomplished all its preset scientific tasks, according to the China National Space Administration. The administration said on Wednesday that the Tianwen 1 mission orbiter has obtained medium-definition images of the entire planet, ...
Baihetan, China’s first 2,000-tonne offshore wind farm installation vessel, was launched on Wednesday in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province. Built by China Three Gorges Corporation, the 126-meter-long, 50-meter-wide vessel has a full load displacement of 37,000 tonnes and integrates ...
SES has announced that the SES-22 satellite was successfully launched into space onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 5:04 pm local time. ...
Raytheon Technologies has been awarded a competitive, prototype phase through an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with Consortium Management Group, Inc. (CMG) on behalf of Consortium for Command, Control and Communications in Cyberspace (C5) to continue development of the U.S. ...
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) reports that its Lunar Photon spacecraft has successfully completed the third of seven planned orbit raising maneuvers, bringing the CAPSTONE spacecraft closer to the Moon. Owned and operated by Advanced Space on behalf ...
Terrestrial and marine habitats have been considered the ecosystems with the highest primary production on earth by far, i.e., the conversion of inorganic to organic carbon. Microscopic algae in the upper layers of the oceans and plants on land ...
The highly anticipated first photos from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope provided scientists with an emotional experience, NASA officials said Wednesday, two weeks before their public release. Thomas Zurbuchen, the head of NASA’s scientific programs, said the ...
European technology that allows satellite navigation signals to safely guide aircraft down for landing in the majority of Europe’s airports will now be put to use across Africa and the Indian Ocean. ASECNA, the Agency for Air Navigation Safety ...
A NASA aircraft will fly over the I-95 corridor from Washington to Baltimore and Hampton, Virginia, in support of an atmospheric campaign in the mid-Atlantic region between July 5 and 16, 2022. The four-engine turboprop P-3 aircraft, based at ...
Reemphasizing a critical joint partnership in all-domain warfare, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. met with his fellow service chiefs from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Space Force June 24 to share advancements and discuss ...
Just in time for worldwide Asteroid Day: a threatening space rock lingered at the top of risk lists around the globe for months, with a real chance of impacting Earth on 2 April 2052. Now, ESA’s asteroid team working ...
On June 29, 2022, Canadian students from Dalhousie University and the University of Victoria will be at Canadian Space Agency (CSA) headquarters to finalize the preparation of their CubeSats for launch. They are the first students from the Canadian ...
The three crew members of the Shenzhou XIII have recovered from the physical effects of their six-month mission and will return to routine training after medical assessment, according to the chief of the People’s Liberation Army Astronaut Division. Major ...
Reusable launch systems are exposed to high dynamic and thermo-mechanical loads during their return to Earth. The German Aerospace Center has now successfully tested high temperature structures, advanced measurement techniques and design tools for the re-entry phase with the ...
This Thursday, July 4, 2022, is remarkable for a number of reasons. It happens to be aphelion: the day where the Earth is at its most distant from the Sun as it revolves through the Solar System in its ...
The Zhurong The Planet Mars China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter spacecraft has managed to capture the entirety of the Mars planet via an image. They release several orbiter’s images across the surface of Mars. (Photo : Planet Volumes via Unsplash) The Tianwen-1 ...
SpaceX Falcon 9 Successfully Brings SES-22 Communications Satellite to Space About SES-22 Satellite An SES 22 communications satellite was launched into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday. The said satellite will offer C-band television and data ...