A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying 3 astronauts has blasted off on its way to the International Space Station
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying 3 astronauts has blasted off on its way to the International Space Station.
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying 3 astronauts has blasted off on its way to the International Space Station.
The astronauts stranded on the International Space Station are still not able to come home, Nasa has said. Two astronauts went to the space station almost 50 days ago as part of a test of Boeing’s Starliner capsule. Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to visit the orbiting lab for about a week and return in mid-June, but thruster failures and helium leaks on Boeing‘s new Starliner capsule prompted Nasa and Boeing to keep them up longer.
Pinpoint Stars In 2003, when the International Space Station was a mere three years old, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit took a gorgeous picture of the Earth's atmosphere, with countless stars frozen in time in the background. But as Pettit revealed in a Reddit post earlier this week, the same photo "cannot be taken anymore" — […]
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has made what could be its most astonishing discovery to date: possible signs of ancient life on the Red Planet.The quest to confirm ancient Martian life is far from over, however.
After weeks of testing, NASA and Boeing officials say they better understand the issues plaguing the Starliner spacecraft, but still aren’t ready to name a return date.
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Mighty Likely NASA's Perseverance Rover has found a rock on Mars that scientists believe may contain signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. As the New York Times reports, NASA researchers aren't quite ready to declare that they've found definitive biosignatures — the scientific term for "signs of life" — in the piece of ancient […]
Last week, NASA made a shocking announcement. It would not be sending its $450 million rover, called the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the Moon, where its state of the art capabilities were anticipated to uncover secrets about water ice just beneath the lunar surface. The reason, according to NASA officials, is that […]
STORY: These platypuses are waddling into what researchers hope is something like paradise.::Platypuses They're at the world’s largest conservation center for the Australian duck-billed mammals.::Dubbo, AustraliaThere are streams, waterfalls, and banks of earth to burrow in, custom-built to simulate a habitat threatened by humans - and extreme weather.Research shows platypus numbers have taken a dramatic dive in recent decades with possibly half their number disappearing.But Platypus Rescue HQ - hopes to reverse that trend.:: THIS EARTHTo help these little guys, researchers need some answers to questions that came up after some of Australia's worst wildfires in recent memory.Dr. Phoebe Meagher from the Taronga Conservation Society Australia told Reuters the species' habitat is now 40% smaller than it used to be.:: Phoebe Meagher/Conservation Officer/Taronga Conservation Society Australia“So in 2019, end of 2019, early 2020, we were hit with the Black Summer fires. This was also on the back of a drought that had just happened and platypus habitat was being lost at a really alarming rate. We were getting calls up and down the east coast asking Taronga if we could help rescue platypus that were being left without anywhere to swim and forage and live. We were able to rescue seven from southern Australia. But that's all we had capacity for. So this made us realise that in fact the need to have facilities to rescue catchment scale levels of platypus populations was critical if we wanted to make an impact for the species.”This research facility was built at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, some 240 miles from Sydney so that researchers can study platypuses in a natural-like setting because we don't know as much about the way they live as we should.::Dr Alisa Wallace/Senior Veterinarian/Wildlife Hospital/Taronga Western Plains Zoo“We really don't understand a whole lot about their biology and the things that drive them to breed or not breed and how they might be impacted by changes in water temperature or air temperature, changes in water conditions.”The zoo hopes to breed platypuses for release back into the wild.To make that happen, four of them were tested and quarantined for 30 days before being released into the HQ as part of a pioneering batch.“In the short term, we would love to see some puggles or some baby platypus in the facility and understand what led to that reproductive success. In the long term, we want to have a really defined list of triggers that we can follow and other conservation organisations can follow in a drought or in a bushfire of how to go in, how to rescue a platypus population, how to transport them back to a facility and then look after them as an insurance population until that location is ready for those animals to be reintroduced to. I think this facility will allow us to not only save species in the immediate threats of climate change, but also in the long term, be able to repopulate those populations.”The facility was set up after ten of the animals were successfully reintroduced into the country's oldest national park south of Sydney last year, where they hadn't been seen in half a century.
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