Himalayan hazards are becoming more complex. Our warning systems need to catch up
The exact timeline of the recent Nepal flooding disaster is becoming clearer. At 8:37am, instruments recorded what was…
What Could SpaceX (SPCX) Flight 14 Mean For Its Reusable Rocket Push?
Space Exploration Technologies (NasdaqGS: SPCX) is targeting its first orbital Starship mission with Flight 14, marking a shift…
No escape from thermodynamic limits
HOW do you explain what Charles Dickens called “The best of times, and the worst of times?” We…
Watching Wildlife: How to Share the Shore and Sea with Marine Animals
This weekend, many of us will take to the water and the beach to bask in the last…
The Moon’s planned first spaceport will have no runways, taxiways or gate announcements—NASA’s Gateway will follow an invisible orbit sculpted by the gravity of Earth and the Moon, and engineers have now published the first detailed strategies for keeping visiting spacecraft safely separated while they wait to dock.
Gateway is often described as the Moon’s first spaceport, but almost nothing about it resembles an airport on…
Panama Canal begins reducing crossings due to El Niño
The Panama Canal has begun to reduce the number of ships passing through due to a drought caused…
Isar Aerospace Calls Off 4 September Spectrum Launch Attempt
Credit: Isar Aerospace German launch services provider Isar Aerospace appears to have scrubbed a planned 4 September attempt…
Scientists filmed a sperm whale giving birth and watched females from another family line help bring the calf into the world — then repeatedly lift the newborn to the surface and support it there while it was still too weak and uncoordinated to swim properly on its own
Blood clouded the water off Dominica just before noon, and eleven sperm whales pressed in closer instead of…
NASA’s 1.8-kilogram Ingenuity helicopter flew through Martian air roughly 100 times thinner than Earth’s—its counter-rotating blades spun at about 2,400 revolutions per minute, nearly five times faster than a conventional passenger helicopter’s main rotor, to generate enough lift.
On Earth, a 1.8-kilogram helicopter would be a small machine. On Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity had to become something…
‘Don’t panic’: How two men were rescued from a flood-stricken Nepali power plant
Kathmandu, Nepal — Nine days after flash flooding washed away valleys and buried entire villages, rescue workers in Nepal…
Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war, report says
The United States does not have enough engineers, technicians and assemblers to rebuild military space assets destroyed in…
Radiation changes hardness and stiffness in nuclear fuel, study finds
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have measured the mechanical properties of irradiated…