Betelgeuse, an 8.5 million-year-old bright reddish star located in the Orion constellation, has been fainting, or getting dimmer, for some time now. Up until recently, the fading has been somewhat steady, but earlier this month scientists detected a dramatic change which prompted them to believe the red giant may be…
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Source: Sputnik Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, is expected to take part in a Bilderberg Meeting scheduled to take place this week in Montreux, Switzerland, according to CNBC. The media outlet reported, citing local media, that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will also attend…
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…
An alleged tweet from Twitter account BNL NEWS reported Israel’s lunar spacecraft, Beresheet, was carrying a holocaust memorial plaque that honored the millions of Jews who lost their lives in World War II: “MORE: Crashed Israeli spaceship Beresheet was meant to deliver a placque to the lunar surface in memoriam…
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: Engadget Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has successfully touched down on the surface of asteroid Ryugu to accomplish one of its ultimate goals: collect samples for scientists back on Earth. The probe has briefly landed on the asteroid to fire a bullet into its surface and kick up dust, rocks and…
Source: RT In a move straight out of a dystopian blockbuster, a Russian startup wants to put giant luminous billboards into orbit to bombard a “potential audience of 7 billion people” with advertising from space. StartRocket aims to use a formation of tiny cube satellites to create programmable displays in…
Old data retrieved from the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has recently revealed unusual rocky zones called “cratons” exist beneath Antarctica. Five years ago, GOCE plunged into our planet’s atmosphere after running out of orbital-maneuvering fuel. After analyzing data found in the craft’s debris, a new study…