Groups of protesters remained in place through the night and into Wednesday morning at several locations, blocking the road at Marble Arch and Oxford Circus. In The Hague on Tuesday, activists occupied the global criminal court building. Elsewhere on Tuesday, 29 people were arrested after hundreds of activists from the Extinction Rebellion Scotland group occupied Edinburgh's North Bridge, brin... [Full Article...]
Despite an admission a year ago that it may be impossible to stop the 8.8 ton asteroid Bennu from annihilating life on Earth , the perennial optimists at NASA have nevertheless granted SpaceX a $ 69 million contract to assist in the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ), meant to save Earth from interstellar armageddon. [Full Article...]
Doron said that the spacecraft's engine turned off shortly before landing. He said the spacecraft was in pieces scattered at the planned landing site. NASA has made its Deep Space Network available to transmit data and has installed a small laser retroreflector aboard the lander to test its potential as a navigation tool. [Full Article...]
This use of the focus also deepens the blacks, which improves the quality of the black holes center. "We have seen and taken picture of a blackhole" said Sheperd Doeleman , EHT director and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics in Cambridge. [Full Article...]
Unable to remain upright, the rocket tipped over and fell into the ocean. "The safety of our team always takes precedence". "We do not expect future missions to be impacted", he said. This is the first time the company has lost a landed stage on the way back to port. 'Three for three boosters today for the Falcon Heavy'. While the Arabsat-6A Falcon Heavy core (B1055.1) may have been lost, it was... [Full Article...]
The amounts of water detected by the sensors were far too high to have come from the meteorites themselves or from vaporized soil, the researchers suggest. They found that water spiked in the thin lunar atmosphere at the same times the Moon found itself being pummeled by meteor streams. The team said that the discovery may lay the groundwork for future investigation into the origin and fate of w... [Full Article...]
The demonstration, which XR describes as non-violent civil disobedience, comes on the back of similar action in November that saw thousands of protesters occupy five bridges in central London. "We are still in this position, and still facing this crisis", she said. "We wish to make peace with ourselves by making peace with our neighbour Earth and with our God". [Full Article...]
The 90-year-old female was one of only four Yangtze giant softshell turtles left on the planet. Local staff and worldwide experts had attempted to artificially inseminate the female 24 hours before she died. The male Yangtze giant softshell, now over 100, is still housed at the zoo but the other two remaining creatures are living in the wild in Vietnam and their gender is unknown. [Full Article...]