On Saturday, a new era in the American space program began as two veteran astronauts readied for liftoff aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon en route to the International Space Station, reported CBS News. During the launch, and shortly after the booster rocket had detached from the craft, viewers on YouTube…
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Source: The Mind Unleashed The existence of parallel universes sounds like science fiction, but over the years a number of prominent physicists have come to believe the idea is not only compatible with conventional physics but that it may explain some of the anomalies in quantum theory. A new discovery…
Source: NASA A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one of which is located in the star’s habitable zone. If made of rock, this planet may be around twice Earth’s size. The new worlds…
Scientists are scratching their heads at the recent discovery of a large mass of unknown material located on the Moon’s largest crater. Some, however, have tried to explain the odd findings in a study titled ‘Deep Structure of the Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin,’ which was published in the April 2019…
Source: Express An asteroid binary first spotted 20 years ago will make another close encounter with Earth this week. US space agency NASA has been tracking the brace of space rocks, dubbed KW4. And grainy footage shows the asteroid growing steadily brighter as it approaches Earth ahead of its closest…
Last week, India intentionally destroyed one of its satellites with a missile and NASA is now saying the test has created so much space debris that it could threaten the International Space Station (ISS) and the astronauts on board. Although Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi essentially called the event a…
Source: Spaceflight Now A day before NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft closes in on a frozen outpost nicknamed Ultima Thule 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) from Earth, basic facts about the city-sized object continued to elude scientists Sunday as the ground team braced for a deluge of data and imagery…