The lunar lander was part of India's unmanned Chandrayaan-2 mission and was meant to search for signs of water on the moon. It's been over two months since India's mission to land on the Moon was cu...
We haven't had it consistently but at the moment we've got a front moving on to the South Island. 'It will probably peter out. Rey, an Australian woman living in Wellington, snapped some of these ...
Beshir Marzouk said the Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the important meteors showers seen from earth, where the average rate of Quadrantid showers flow will be 80 Quadrantid meteors per hour...
Amazon reportedly updated its policy a year ago to require a "business justification" to talk publicly about the company, which can take up to two weeks to get approved. Critics said at the time that ...
A group of Canadian firefighters are also assisting in Australia for the first time to tackle the bushfires which have so far killed at least 15 people, destroyed nearly 1300 homes, and burned mor...
His gravestone was actually a cenotaph, a stone with his name on it but no body buried underneath. The organisation estimated that his remains would have been placed around 1916. Another escape involv...
During the shower's greatest activity, a single observer with a dark sky could see anywhere from 60 to 120 meteors per hour. Unfortunately, a forecast of light rain in the Northeast overnight on Fri...
The 46-year-old Moorhead replaced Dan Mullen at Mississippi State after a decorated tenure as offensive coordinator at Penn State from 2016-17. "It could be the strength of the conference or even the ...
The video starts off with the astronauts getting out of what obviously is a Tesla Model X , and making their way to the launch pad to board the Crew Dragon via the jet bridge. Boeing and SpaceX were ...
Prince William is looking ahead to the next decade with a plan to solve some of the world's biggest environmental problems. The Instagram post announcing the Earthshot Prize featured a photo of...
Known as "Jane" and "Petey", these fossils were unearthed in Carter County, Montana by paleontologists from the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Illinois. To assess the age and growth r...
Signs of the Quadrantid meteor shower began in the tail end of December, but the event peaks in early January. The best chance to see the shower is to position yourself looking North East after midn...
The insertion was completed successfully today at 0902 hrs IST (0332 GMT) as expected, utilizing the onboard propulsion system. If the mission continues as planned, India will become the fourth coun...
With the widespread power and communications outages across the South Coast please share this information to as many affected people as possible. Police in New South Wales said Tuesday that two men,...
The two-minute clip that Musk tweeted on Monday shows flight crew boarding the capsule-like spaceship Crew Dragon , countdown, take off and separation of the vehicle from the Falcon 9 rocket. A d...
The closest entrance will be from the smallest of the asteroids with a diameter is just 55 feet and it will supposedly fly by 415 thousand miles away at 18:39 GMT. They range from 98 to 256 feet in ...
Along with this, various devices are also being sent to help understand the nature of the surface of Mars. This enables scientists to identify the chemical composition of rocks and soil that the rove...
The previous record holder was Peggy Whitson from NASA, who served as Station Commander at the International Space Station , but Koch's stay in space is by no means over. The record for the longest...
But even if we still have eons to go for Betelgeuse to go, there are plenty of other stars in the sky. According to science and space writer Robert Walker, Betelgeuse's explosion will probably b...
Speaking on Dr. Berlin's " Informed Pregnancy " podcast , Amy said: "Even through the birthing centre has an operating room and doctors at the ready.my instincts were just like, no". "He's on the spe...
The peak of the Quadrantids can be spectacular but quick, lasting just a few hours most years. Luckily, the moon's light won't significantly obscure the shower during its peak times since it will be a...
She said to Radio 4: "It really helps to get out of this depression because it feels like you have an impact". Ms Sands said: 'Greta is not actually judgmental towards individuals, accepting that ...
NASA astronaut Christina Koch on Saturday set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, eclipsing the record of 288 days set by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson in 2016-17. "It...
The court in Shenzen found him guilty of illegal practice and also fined him 3m yuan (US$430,000), according to the state news agency Xinhua. Zhang Renli was sentenced to two years in prison and fined...
Koch, 40, arrived at the International Space Station last March, and on Saturday her spaceflight surpassed the record set by her U.S. compatriot Peggy Whitson , who was 288 straight days in orbit. We...
The country was late to the space race - it didn't send its first satellite into space until 1970, just after the United States put the first man on the moon. Later in June, China launched seven satel...
The Sydney City Council gave the green light, although fire officials warned that the show could be canceled if catastrophic conditions were declared. Australia is in the grip of another heatwave with...
It could pave the way for future missions to the moon and Mars , as well as a manned test flight. China plans to build the Long March 5, or Changzheng 5, in a variety of configurations to achieve i...
There were several sightings of Starlink satellites reported worldwide during the holiday periods. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the astronomers' concerns, but ...
An incredibly rare black rhino has been born on Christmas Eve at a U.S. zoo, after years of planning and preparation. The Facebook page of the zoo, broadcast feed of the 12-year-old Doppsee delivering...
The proposal to a panel of experts is the first time the ministry has restricted the various options available to them. It is meant to tackle the huge headache for the plant's operator posed by the wa...
Big asteroids are known as planetoids. "Composed mostly of water ice with embedded dust particles, comets originally formed in the cold outer planetary system while most of the rocky asteroids forme...
Addressing media at Mudgee, in NSW, on Monday the prime minister hit back at the scathing criticism, claiming he was focusing on Australia rather than on the opinions of people overseas. This aerial i...
If the parachutes are deployed correctly, then it is safe for the crew on-board. "The initial tests completed successfully but the final test resulted in an anomaly on the test stand". With a successf...
Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, approving the establishment of a space force, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said at a regular briefing....
