Venus to Shine at Peak Brightness Over Oman Skies on September 22: How and When to See the Evening Star
With over 30 years of journalistic experience spanning from Jordan to the UAE, Khitam has spent the past…
T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant
For most of the last century, T. rex was pictured as a sluggish, tail-dragging reptile that had to…
When Hubble swings from one galaxy to another, engineers fire no thrusters—Hubble has none. They change the speeds of four internal reaction wheels, making the observatory rotate the opposite way, while magnetic bars push against Earth’s field to bleed off excess momentum: a propellant-free steering system used since 1990.
When the Hubble Space Telescope finishes observing one galaxy and turns toward another, nothing fires into space. There…
In 2011, NASA sent a solar sail the size of a small apartment into orbit; the thin reflective sheet flew without fuel |
A photo of the experimental solar sail, NanoSail-D. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Spacecraft have historically relied on transporting…
Pythons vs vipers: Venom, size, hunting by constriction or fangs, native range and how each family reproduces |
Image: Left/Python/Right/Viper/Canva They might both command a great deal of attention (and fear), but pythons and vipers have…
Astrophysics study suggests Venus may have swallowed its moon
A California-based astrophysicist has presented a new theory to explain why Venus, the planet most like Earth in…
Join us Wednesday as we discuss KSC, space and Central Florida – Orlando Sentinel
The nation’s space program and Central Florida have been closely linked since the first rocket blasted off from…
Physicists find Einstein’s ‘spooky’ quantum effect inside Higgs boson decays
ATLAS physicists found strong evidence that pairs of massive Z bosons produced in Higgs decays emerge with entangled…
Bear-y good neighbors: humans and animals are learning to live together in an expanding LA | Los Angeles
Every year, as summer draws to a close and fall begins, California’s bears get hungry. Black bears have…
Scientists may have solved a 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls mystery
A longstanding mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls may have a new explanation. Researchers have debated for decades…
Venus to reach peak brightness in Oman’s evening sky on Tuesday
MUSCAT: Venus will reach peak brightness in Oman’s evening sky on Tuesday, appearing as a brilliant point of…
Twenty-two years of X-ray timing suggest the disk around pulsar 4U 1626−67 may have flipped from rotating backward to forward in 2008, turning years of spin-down into spin-up — though the evidence remains indirect.
For decades, the ultracompact X-ray binary 4U 1626−67 has behaved like a machine that periodically changes gear. Its…