Sci-tech
China launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life
China, however, can take confidence from the successes of its two recent Yutu lunar rovers, the second of which made the first ever soft landing on the far side of the Moon previous year. In the sci-fi movie "The Martian", Mark Watney, a botanist who is trapped on Mars, eventually returns to Earth under joint rescue operation by China and the United States; in another film "The Wandering Earth",... [Full Article...]
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission to ISS set for September launch
ET and ended at 12:41 p.m. ET, after five and a half hours. "RiTS provides thermal and physical protection for tools stored on the outside of station, not only freeing up room on board but also allowing the Canadian Space Agency's Dextre robot to access them more quickly", RiTS Hardware Manager Mark Neuman said in a news release from NASA. [Full Article...]
China to launch unmanned probe to Mars today
Stressing that human exploration of Mars is on the horizon, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said that the agency is planning its first round-trip voyage to Mars to take about two years during which the crew could spend about a month on the Martian surface. [Full Article...]
Scientists capture first direct photo of sun-like star with two planets
He said it provides "a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our solar system but at a much earlier stage of its evolution". "Even though astronomers have indirectly detected thousands of planets in our galaxy , only a tiny fraction of these exoplanets have been directly imaged", said study co-author Matthew Kenworthy, an associate professor at Leiden University. [Full Article...]
Tom Cruise to Film Aboard the International Space Station
Tom Cruise is set to star in a movie shot in outer space, Nasa has revealed. NASA administrator, Jim Bridenstine, confirmed the talks were involving the US space agency with a tweet he posted on May 6th, pointing out that popular media would be useful to inspire the next generation of NASA engineers and scientists. [Full Article...]
Polar bears could be extinct by end of the century
If the females don't get enough food they aren't able to make enough milk for their cubs which means fewer will make it to adulthood and overall numbers will drop. Last year was one of the worst years on record for Greenland's ice sheet, which shrank by hundreds of billions of tonnes in a high-pressure environment brought on by unusually clear skies and warmer temperatures, a study found in April. [Full Article...]
First hurricane of the season forms in eastern Pacific
A tropical storm in the Atlantic could strengthen to a hurricane by the end of the week, according to the National Hurricane Center . Locally heavy rain will be possible. According to Phillip Klotzbach, a Colorado State University meteorologist, it is now the earliest 7th-named storm ever in the Atlantic basin . If this system were to attain tropical storm status it would be named Hanna. [Full Article...]
Life on Mars? NASA set to send new rover to planet
Perseverance aims to response inquiries about the probable for lifetime on Mars, which includes trying to get indicators of habitable situations in the planet's historic past and looking for evidence of microbial daily life. Beijing, for its section, is perfectly conscious of the prospective prestige it could get by outstripping the U.S. in place. China has invested tremendous resources to chall... [Full Article...]