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Gaia mission finds parts of the Milky Way much older than expected

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Frederick Blake |

Utilizing information from ESA’s Gaia mission, space experts have shown that a piece of the Milky Way known as the ‘thick circle’ started framing 13 billion years prior, around 2 billion years sooner than anticipated, and simply 0.8 billion years…

Watch the trailer for ‘Return to Space’ on Netflix chronicling SpaceX’s historic 1st astronaut launch

Posted on March 20, 2022 by Frederick Blake |

SpaceX made history in May 2020 when it launched its two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on a private rocket and spacecraft. That feat, which restored American access to space from U.S. soil, is now the focus of…

Officials Confirm Several Geomagnetic Storms Are Hitting Earth This Week

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Kevin Ruiz |

The Sun is continuing its rowdy behavior, with flares and coronal mass ejections almost every day since mid-January. That means the inevitable has happened: some of those eruptions have blasted in the general direction of Earth, which means we’re in…

CD sales just rose for the first time in almost two decades

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Kevin Ruiz |

Disc deals in the US for 2021 expanded without precedent for just about twenty years, as per information distributed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Shipments rose from 31.6 million out of 2020 to 46.6 million of every…

Does Covid-19 Trigger Diabetes in Children? Here’s What the Research Shows So Far

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Frederick Blake |

Research out this week is the most recent to recommend that Coronavirus might be connected to a higher danger of type 1 diabetes in youngsters. The investigation discovered that detailed diabetes cases at an enormous kids’ emergency clinic in San…

Defense Department seeks nuclear propulsion for small spacecraft

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Kevin Ruiz |

The US Defense Department’s ambitions beyond Earth just grew a little clearer. SpaceNews has learned the department recently put out a call for privately-made nuclear propulsion systems that could power small- and mid-sized spacecraft. The DoD wants to launch missions…

Blue Origin auctions New Shepard ride with Jeff Bezos for $28 million

Posted on June 13, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

Blue Origin’s month-long sale for an excursion to the edge of room with its very rich person author Jeff Bezos finished on Saturday with an end cost of $28 million. The trip on board New Shepard, scheduled for July twentieth,…

The Hoover Dam reservoir is at an all-time low

Posted on June 10, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

Lake Mead, the supply made by the Hoover Dam, that feeds water to 25 million individuals across Western states, is verifiably low. On June ninth, the water level plunged to 1,071.57 feet above ocean level, barely beating a record low…

Say goodbye to the Keystone XL pipeline, for real this time

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

It’s official: the Keystone XL is going away for good. The pipeline’s developer announced Wednesday that it’s terminating the project. For years, the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have gone back and forth on allowing the massive transcontinental project to…

SpaceX’s Starlink is in talks with ‘several’ airlines for in-flight Wi-Fi

Posted on June 9, 2021 by Frederick Blake |

The group behind SpaceX’s developing satellite web network Starlink is in chats with “a few” aircrafts to radiate web to their planes, the undertaking’s VP said during a meeting board on Wednesday. Growing Starlink from rustic homes and onto aircrafts…