Boeing has postponed its first uncrewed flight to the International Space Station under NASA’s human spaceflight program by at least three months. Industry sources said on Wednesday that it has also pushed its crewed flight until November. It was reported last month that NASA has warned Boeing and its rival contractor SpaceX of design and … Read more
A host of new liquid metals that have applications towards soft robotics can make movies like ‘The Terminator’ transcend make-believe. According to scientists, experimental liquid metals like gallium and other alloys, when supplemented with iron or nickel, are able to flex and mold into shapes with the use of magnets. This is much like the … Read more
The path towards innovation doesn’t always run smooth in a straight line. At times, it comes in U-Shape. In the month of September, a floating barrier about 2000-foot-long shaped as “U” was placed at Great Pacific Garbage Patch that lies between California and Hawaii. This is the place where close to 1.8 trillion plastic pieces … Read more
NASA’s spacecraft located about 4 Billion Miles away from Earth recently yielded the close-up pictures of a distant space object. Received on Wednesday, this picture revealed first of its kind celestial object that looked something like reddish snowman. This small and icy object was dubbed as Ultima Thule. This object was found consisting of 2 … Read more
A new set of images for Jupiter’s Jovian moon Io’s volcanic plume has been captured. This was done during the 17th flyby of Juno missionto the gas giant Jupiter. After at least one hour of proper observations by the systems JunoCam, Stellar Reference Unit (SRU), Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVS), Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), a … Read more
An unexplained abort post the launch of Russian Spacecraft Soyuz led to the journey for two-man crew to be cut short. The team had to return back a few minutes post the launch and postpone its plan to get to ISS (International Space Station). This unwanted abruption took place some weeks ago and now the … Read more
A NASA sun-studying spacecraft just made an entry into the record books. Long back in April 1976, the German-American Helios 2 probe made spaceflight’s closest-ever solar approach by cruising within 26.55 million miles (i.e 42.73 million kilometers) of the sun. Now NASA’s Parker Solar Probe zoomed inside that distance today on October 29th, crossing the … Read more
As of October 27th, the Hubble Space Telescope by NASA has completely resumed its normal operations post fixing of its faulty gyroscope by the controllers. The space agency released a statement stating that Hubble has effectively resumed the normal science based operations that it has been designed to perform since 9 p.m. EST October 26th. … Read more
NASA reported that a perfectly formed, rectangular ice sheet was spotted during a flyover in Antarctica on the 16th of October. The flyover was part of Operation IceBridge. This operation is NASA’s aerial survey of polar ice. It originated from Punta Arenas, Chile, on the 10th of October. Jeremy Harbeck, a senior support scientist spotted … Read more
Hawaii scientists found two very tiny baby octopuses floating on a plastic trash that they were cleaning up as they monitored coral reefs. Sallie Beavers, Marine ecologist of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park said today that the octopuses were the size of green peas. She said that they were likely either day octopus or night octopus. … Read more