WASHINGTON: A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts back to Earth splashed down off Panama City early Sunday, a Nasa livestream showed. Boats were retrieving the spacecraft and crew after their six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. The crew reported they were feeling well, Nasa said. The capsule […]
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And the little chopper could take to the skies for the first time on Sunday (April 11). NASA’s little Mars helicopter has opened its eyes on the Red Planet. The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper, known as Ingenuity, snapped its first color photograph on Saturday (April 3), shortly after being lowered […]
SAN FRANCISCO: The world’s premier video game trade show will return in June as a free, virtual event after the annual gathering was cancelled last year because of the pandemic. Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) shop talk and game revelations will be solely online in a show that will take place […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Facebook makes it so easy for us to automatically link our accounts to other features, sites, and other apps. But here’s a little reminder to check up on the kind of personal data you’ve added on the widely used platform, as Israeli cybersecurity company Hudson Rock co-founder Alon […]
Emerging data hint that COVID-19 can trigger diabetes in some people, although the exact reason remains unknown. Scientists around the world noticed an uptick in new diabetes cases last year and, in particular, saw that some COVID-19 patients with no history of diabetes were suddenly developing the condition, Scientific American […]
A new theory takes a swing at the bizarre 2017 mystery object. Back in 2017, a point of strange light flashed through the solar system. Three years later, a team of scientists claims to have figured out what it was. That light was the first interstellar visitor ever detected in […]
A supermassive black hole is racing across the universe at 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h), and the astronomers who spotted it don’t know why. The fast-moving black hole, which is roughly 3 million times heavier than our sun, is zipping through the center of the galaxy J0437+2456, about 230 million light-years […]
Thousands of craters scar the Koźle Basin, remnants of the war’s devastation. Toward the end of World War II, Allied planes dropped tens of thousands of bombs on a region of Germany that’s now part of Poland, and the devastation is recorded in thousands of craters that remain to this […]
The Hubble Space Telescope made the find. Scientists think they’ve spied an alien world that lost its atmosphere — then conjured itself a new one. That’s according to a new analysis of Hubble Space Telescope observations gathered in 2017 of a planet dubbed GJ 1132 b. The world tightly orbits […]
Quantum scale gravity has long been a mystery to physics, but things could be starting to change. Physicists have measured the smallest gravitational field ever recorded, in an experiment that could help in the search for a unified theory of physics. Of the four fundamental forces known to physics — […]