Video caught the strange moment the California skyline was lit up by unidentified "space debris" following a rocket launch. Jenna Kushi, 30, caught the bizarre scene on her phone at 1.30am in Camarillo, Ventura County, CA, on April 2. A SpaceX rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7.30pm on April 1.
Friendly Fire A scientist who's been working on NASA's Voyager mission for more than half a century has truly seen it all — and now, he says that the probes are straight-up catching strays. In an interview with Mashable, Alan Cummings, a cosmic ray physicist at NASA and Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who's been on the […]
The world’s highest mountain continues to draw climbers willing to risk their lives as they clamber past frozen corpses on their way to the top.
It’s not easy to collect rocks on a budget when the rocks are 140 million miles away.
Scientists have reacted with alarm to the spread of the H5N1 virus - a type of bird flu - in cattle and milk across the US.
Hubble Trouble NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken down yet again, bringing scientific activities to a grind. Scientists were forced to put the telescope, which was launched in 1990, into safe mode last week due to an "ongoing gyroscope issue," according to a NASA update. Fortunately, Hubble's instruments are "stable and the telescope is in […]
New ideas will be key to making the mission happen after a report criticised its timescale and cost.
A mysterious 12-sided object from the Roman era is to go on show in Lincolnshire. The hollow dodecahedrons continue to baffle archaeologists with their elusive purpose. Only 33 have been discovered in Britain - with the latest recently unearthed during a 2023 amateur archaeology dig near Lincoln and set to go on public display. This artefact, one of the largest of its kind found, measures 8cm tall and weighs 254g. Its significance lies not only in its size but also in its discovery "in situ", wh
Scientists say there is the urgent need to address destructive fishing practices globally.
Newly deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed, according to Italian researchers.
Egglescliffe School, Stockton-on-Tees has celebrated the launch of a new dedicated STEM learning facility supported by Cummins.
NASA has been a leader of space exploration for decades, being the only organization to put humans on the moon. As part of their Artemis missions, for the first time in over 50 years, NASA hopes to repeat that feat and put a human on the moon in 2026. One of the biggest differences this time: the private sector is helping them do it. In addition to major companies, like Boeing (BA) and Lockheed Martin (LMT), one of the businesses assisting in NASA’s mission is SpaceX. The private company, co-founded by Elon Musk, introduced a new commercial era of space exploration. In 2023 SpaceX executed 96 successful missions, launching a rocket on average every four days. There are many companies following SpaceX’s lead. Yahoo Finance got an inside look at one of those businesses: Firefly Aerospace. Firefly is also playing a role in NASA’s mission as part of the $2.6 billion Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, aimed at developing reliable transportation options to the moon for supplies and research. Later this year, Firefly will be the third American company to attempt an unmanned lunar landing with their Blue Ghost spacecraft. That mission is backed by a $112 million contract from NASA. While Firefly plans to continue its work with NASA, the company is expecting the commercial side of space to become a larger part of its business, with the industry expected to grow to $1.8 trillion by 2035, according to the World Economic Forum. In an effort to capitalize on this, and maximize speed and cost efficiency, Firefly’s mission is to become an end-to-end space transportation company. The company is manufacturing rockets, including an upcoming medium launch vehicle in partnership with Northrop Grumman (NOC), orbital vehicles to service spacecraft on their missions, and landers, like Blue Ghost. If you’re going to future-proof your portfolio, you need to know what’s NEXT. In this series, Yahoo Finance will feature stories that give a glimpse at the future, and show how companies are making big moves today that will matter tomorrow. For more on our NEXT series, click here, and tune in to Yahoo Finance Live for more expert insight and the latest market action, Monday through Friday. Editor's note: This article was written by Luke Brooks.
A Chinese spacecraft returned to Earth on Tuesday with three astronauts who completed a six-month mission aboard the country’s orbiting space station. The Shenzhou-17 craft carrying Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin landed at the Dongfeng site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the Gobi Desert shortly before 6 p.m. It comes roughly four days after the Shenzhou-18 mission docked with the station with their three-member replacement crew. China built its own space station after being excluded from the International Space Station, largely because of U.S. concerns over the Chinese military’s total control of the space program amid a sharpening competition in technology between the two geopolitical rivals.
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