SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted an image of the Raptor Engine system part of the Super Heavy booster that will eventually power its massive Starship vehicle into orbit – and it looks like something out of Star Wars. The photograph highlights a maze of connecting fuel lines that one Twitter user suggests looks like Sarlacc … Read more
The International Space Station (ISS) averted a disaster on Thursday after a newly arrived Russian module suffered a concerning mishap. In a worrying episode for NASA, the ISS was thrown out of control when jet thrusters of the 22-ton Nauka research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it docked. Nauka, which is designed to serve … Read more
How important is the presence of liquid water? It is now widely believed that Mars holds a reasonably large volume of water. However, the surface of the planet is so cold, this water exists only as ice. In order for life to exist on a planet, many scientists believe it is essential for the world … Read more
Is this Europe’s first hunting dog? Jawbone of a huge canine dating back 1.8 MILLION years is discovered alongside human remains in Georgia The jawbone of a young adult Eurasian hunting dog was found in Dmanisi Experts have dated the dog’s remains back to around 1.77–1.76 million years ago This predates the widespread dispersal of hunting … Read more
Some 4.5 billion years ago, a lump of molten rock began to form in the solar system that eventually evolved into present-day Earth. David A. Roberts, an artist and computer scientist, created the evolutionary story of the planet in a mesmerizing video that puts billions of years of transitions into a four-minute simulation. The epic … Read more
Some 4.5 billion years ago, a lump of molten rock began to form in the solar system that eventually evolved into present-day Earth. David A. Roberts, an artist and computer scientist, created the evolutionary story of the planet in a mesmerizing video that puts billions of years of transitions into a four-minute simulation. The epic … Read more
Astronomer finds exoplanet 35 light-years from Earth which has a surface temperature hot enough to bake cookies on at 320 degrees Fahrenheit Researchers have directly imaged an exoplanet to 35 light-years away, the closest one to be imaged COCONUTS-2b orbits its star 6,000 times farther than the Earth orbits the sun At 320 degrees Fahrenheit, … Read more
Relax! People are quicker to jump to conclusions when they’re STRESSED – even if it’s based on weak evidence, study finds University College London scientists performed tests using a computerised task People under stress reached undesirable conclusions based on weaker evidence So stress can make us more likely to conclude the worst scenario is true, they … Read more
Astronomer finds exoplanet 35 light-years from Earth which has a surface temperature hot enough to bake cookies on at 320 degrees Fahrenheit Researchers have directly imaged an exoplanet to 35 light-years away, the closest one to be imaged COCONUTS-2b orbits its star 6,000 times farther than the Earth orbits the sun At 320 degrees Fahrenheit, … Read more
Is this Europe’s first hunting dog? Jawbone of a huge canine dating back 1.8 MILLION years is discovered alongside human remains in Georgia The jawbone of a young adult Eurasian hunting dog was found in Dmanisi Experts have dated the dog’s remains back to around 1.77–1.76 million years ago This predates the widespread dispersal of hunting … Read more