9+ hour, 18+ min ago  (595+ words) A chilling discovery was made when a spacecraft carrying dead astronauts executed a flawless touchdown on Earth - after the crew had died more than 100 miles away. On 30 June 1971, commander Georgi Dobrovolsky, flight engineer Vladislav Volkov and research engineer Viktor Patsayev…...

2+ hour, 57+ min ago  (202+ words) New climate modeling suggests our planet’s living systems may have a different endurance level than previous estimates suggested. The future of life on Earth is closely tied to the survival of plants, which form the foundation of almost every food…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (1818+ words) How do you map something you can’t see? Scientists may have found a way If there’s one thing everyone knows about black holes, it’s that nothing escapes their grasp – not even light. Even if you could send a probe into…...

20+ min ago  (705+ words) The centre of Earth is easy to imagine wrongly. It is not a cavern, not a furnace of molten rock, and not a smaller version of the mantle pressed into a ball....

1+ hour, 20+ min ago  (372+ words) The Daily Galaxy A decade of observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has uncovered an unexpected pattern inside the young supernova remnant G292.0+1.8, revealing that its debris is not expanding uniformly through space The findings, published as a preprint on…...

49+ min ago  (691+ words) Artistic rendering of Penrose super-radiance: electromagnetic waves with selected rotation patterns are amplified as they interact with a system that appears to rotate at superluminal speeds. (CREDIT: Dalila Pasotti and Hadiseh Nasari A black hole may be millions of light-years…...

43+ min ago  (1024+ words) CPT symmetry holds that the laws of physics remain unchanged when charge, spatial coordinates, and the direction of time are all reversed simultaneously. (CREDIT: Physical Review Letters) The Big Bang may not mark the absolute beginning of everything. A controversial…...

54+ min ago  (273+ words) CIA developed the highly secret A-12 Oxcart as the U-2’s successor, intended to meet the nation’s need for a very fast, very high-flying reconnaissance aircraft that could avoid Soviet air defenses. The A-12 represented the Genesis of Stealth. The SR-71 that…...

5+ hour, 41+ min ago  (587+ words) The US has approved the first test of a 'Sunlight on Demand' space mirror after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorised Reflect Orbital to launch Earendil-1, an experimental satellite designed to reflect sunlight back to Earth. The approval allows the…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago  (411+ words) SpaceX has taken an important step in the implementation of the project of an orbital constellation of data centers called Starmind. The company has launched the official website of the project, which describes in detail the technical parameters of the…...