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“Yes, it was indeed gruyère, and it almost caused a disaster!” Crisis Averted During an important rocket test, some students decided to strap some cheese onto one of the craft’s landing legs — and got a crucial lesson in physics. As Interesting Engineering reports, the student-built Gruyère Space Program in Lausanne, Switzerland beat out the European […]
Crew-8 astronauts splash down on SpaceX Dragon Endeavour after weather delays (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) [embedded content] Four space station crewmates are safely back on Earth after an extended mission and a long wait for the weather to cooperate. SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps all with NASA and Roscosmos cosmonaut […]
Massive, bustling Perseus galaxy cluster dazzles in new telescope image (Image Credit: Space.com) This scene of cosmic chaos shows a section of the immense Perseus galaxy cluster, revealing several giant elliptical galaxies, a dusty spiral whose arms are fading, and several edge-on galaxies, some of which appear to be experiencing interactions or mergers with their […]
Listen to haunting sounds of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago in eerie new animation (Image Credit: Space.com) A captivating new video shows how Earth’s magnetic field went haywire and almost completely disappeared during our planet’s most recent “polar reversal event,” around 41,000 years ago. A haunting soundscape of “alien-like” creaking sounds emphasizes the […]
A meteorite 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid helped life on Earth flourish (Image Credit: Space.com) There is probably no better example of the destructive power of space rocks upon our planet than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs along with three-quarters of Earth’s plant and animal species around 66 million years ago. Now, […]
NASA’s solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom in Earth orbit (photo) (Image Credit: Space.com) NASA’s technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released photo shows. The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects of solar sailing, a next-gen propulsion strategy NASA thinks could greatly […]
NASA Astronaut Hospitalized Immediately After Returning to Earth (Image Credit: futurism-com) Mysterious Circumstances After landing back on Earth, a NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an unidentified health issue — and there’s still a lot we don’t know about the situation. In an update, NASA said that all four members of SpaceX’s Crew-8 […]
NASA’s retired space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA’s first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space, on Thursday (Oct. 24). The two-armed, two-legged robotic testbed launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Discovery’s final mission in 2011. […]
SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut hospitalized in Pensacola after Dragon splashdown, in ‘stable condition’ (Image Credit: Space.com) The astronauts of Crew-8 were taken to a Florida hospital as a precaution, shortly after their successful splashdown on Friday (Oct. 25), NASA said. The SpaceX Crew-8 group of four astronauts was evaluated at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, a hospital […]
China launches new set of classified Yaogan spy satellites (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) [embedded content] China has added a new batch of three spacecraft to a classified series of orbiting Yaogan satellites. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 9:09 p.m. EDT on Oct. 22 (0109 GMT and 9:09 […]
