Launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a cosmonaut commander, a guest flier from Belarus and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson was aborted at the T-minus 20-second mark Thursday, delaying the crew’s planned flight to the International Space Station. With veteran commander Oleg Novitskiy at the controls, flanked on the left by Belarus spaceflight participant Marina … Read more
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander touched down on the moon Thursday after a historic, nail-biting descent following a last-minute navigation sensor malfunction, becoming the first U.S.-built spacecraft to stick a moon landing in more than 50 years and the first ever by a private company. After delaying the final descent by one orbit to press an experimental NASA navigation … Read more
Macron’s comments come as European nations grapple with the looming consequences of Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House, with the NATO-skeptic ex-president on track to win the Republican nomination. In the U.S., further military aid for Ukraine is also stalled in Congress, with Republican lawmakers reluctant to continue funding Kyiv. Ukraine has been … Read more
BENGALURU: The Congress government in Karnataka is poised to take the ordinance route to enforce the allocation of 60% signboard space in all business establishments to Kannada, replacing the existing 50:50 ratio.The government’s announcement came a day after some activists of the Karnataka Rakshna Vedike vandalised signboards in Bengaluru not adhering to the 60:40 ratio.The … Read more
After 19 years of service, BioWare veteran Mac Walters announced his departure from the studio back in January. Walters worked as project director for the wonderful Mass Effect: Legendary Edition before leaving, which compiled the original Mass Effect trilogy, the successful release of which felt like the right note to go out on. In an … Read more
TOKYO — Japan’s cabinet on Monday approved a bill to set up a 1 trillion yen ($6.7 billion) fund for JAXA, the country’s space agency, as a way to catapult the country’s private sector into the global race for new rocket and satellite technologies. The bill aims to create a trillion-yen endowment over the next … Read more
Galactic 05 will be Virgin’s final mission of 2023 A space researcher has shared a sweet video of her reuniting with her daughter after completing a commercial suborbital flight Galactic 05, launched by Virgin Galactic. According to the Independent, Kellie Gerardi conducted three experiments in fluid dynamics and biomedical research while on board the VSS Unity spaceplane. The … Read more
Astronomers studying data from NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven “scorching” planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space agency said Thursday. NASA described the newly found planets as “sweltering” and “bathed” in radiant heat emitted by the host star that was described … Read more
A spacecraft exploring an asteroid belt successfully “phoned home” to NASA after a high-speed asteroid encounter on Wednesday. The spacecraft, named Lucy, has a primary mission of exploring Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, a series of asteroids trapped in the gas giant’s orbit. The new high-speed encounter was with a small main belt asteroid that NASA called … Read more
The Pentagon has launched a digital form allowing current or former government employees, contractors or service members to report “direct knowledge of U.S. Government programs or activities related to” Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs, the formal government name for objects that had previously been known as UFOs. The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office says it will … Read more