NASA May Be Forced to Send Boeing’s Busted Spacecraft Back Empty
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stranded on the International Space Station for almost 2 months, since arriving on a mission that was supposed to last only 2 weeks. Their ride back, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, has experienced ongoing technical issues that have delayed their return indefinitely. NASA has not announced a new […]
Scientists Explored Hydrogen Forests—and May Have Uncovered Hidden Dark Matter
Scientists used a powerful simulator called PRIYA along with data to study a phenomenon called “hydrogen forests” in deep space where hydrogen atoms cluster. Hydrogen forests form around sources of gravity and their light signature can be detected via spectroscopy techniques. They are believed to show where dark matter is concentrated since hydrogen is drawn […]
Saudi Arabia calls Haniyeh killing a ‘blatant violation’ of Iran’s sovereignty
Saudi Arabia criticized the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran as a “blatant violation” of Iran’s sovereignty. This was the first comment by Saudi Arabia on the killing. Saudi Deputy FM and OIC chair echoed concerns, saying the killing risks wider conflict in the Middle East. A statement held Israel fully responsible. Iran […]
A Wild Discovery Suggests Earth Had Multiple Hidden Moons
A new study from the University of Nevada proposes that shortly after the Earth-Moon system formed from a giant impact about 4.5 billion years ago, there may have been multiple “polar moons” or circumbinary particles orbiting close to Earth and the moon. These hypothetical moons would have been in high polar or inclined orbits relative […]
A Deeply Mysterious Antihelium Particle Has Appeared in Space
In 2016, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment on the International Space Station detected around 10 antihelium particles in cosmic rays. If confirmed, this would be significant since antihelium has only been created in labs previously. Antimatter particles like antihelium should not exist naturally according to the Standard Model of Physics. The detection challenges current understandings. […]
Pakistani man with ties to Iran is charged in plot to carry out political assassinations on US soil
A Pakistani man named Asif Merchant has been charged in a plot to carry out political assassinations in the U.S. Merchant allegedly has ties to Iran. He traveled to New York in April seeking to hire hitmen, paying $5,000 to undercover law enforcement officers who were posing as assassins. No potential targets are identified in […]
A Torrential Rainstorm Washed Over a Dig Site—and Revealed a 233-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur
– Heavy rains in southern Brazil uncovered the fossil remains of a carnivorous dinosaur from the Triassic period around 233 million years ago. – The dinosaur belongs to the Herrerasauridae family and was an eight-foot long bi-pedal reptile that lived during the time of the supercontinent Pangea. – This would make it one of the […]
10 new dead star ‘monsters’ discovered at the heart of the Milky Way
– Astronomers have discovered 10 new pulsars (rapidly spinning dead stars also known as neutron stars) located together in the globular cluster Terzan 5 near the center of the Milky Way. – Pulsars are neutron stars that emit beams of radiation from their magnetic poles as they spin, like a celestial lighthouse. Terzan 5 already […]
James Webb telescope confirms the earliest galaxy in the universe is bursting with way more stars than we thought possible
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest galaxy ever observed, called JADES-GS-z14-0. It formed around 290 million years after the Big Bang. Surprisingly, JADES-GS-z14-0 contains many young stars that formed very rapidly, about 200 million years after the Big Bang. Current models suggest galaxy formation was a slower, more gradual process in the […]
What happens if someone dies in space?
If someone dies in low-Earth orbit (such as on the ISS), their body could be returned to Earth within hours on a returning capsule. If death occurred on the Moon, the body could be returned in a few days using existing NASA protocols. Preservation would likely not be a major concern in these quick-return scenarios. […]