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Credit: ZME Science/SORA. What would happen if you threw a paper airplane from the International Space Station? It’s the sort of idea that might emerge from a curious child — or a physicist with a flair for wonder. Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki, researchers at the University of Tokyo, decided to find out. Their answer is part serious engineering analysis, …

As the International Space Station passes over India this weekend, many of those looking up to catch a glimpse as it goes by will be excited schoolchildren, who, like millions across the country, have their eyes, hopes and dreams pinned on astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to visit the ISS. “What if the astronauts find evidence of intelligent life …

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. To continue reading this article: Register now and get3 free articles every month. You’ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at any …

The website Atlas Obscura likes quirky roadside attractions nearly as much as I do. It’s a fun site to check out, but I was a little hurt recently that Alabama was left of its list of “14 Roadside Dinosaur Attractions Worth the Stop.” If you have a dino-obsessed family member, Alabama has no shortage of attractions to see and learn …

The astronomical community is abuzz over a newly discovered “interstellar object,” only the third of its kind ever seen, which is currently shooting toward us on a one-way trip through the solar system. The race is now on to study the alien interloper, named 3I/ATLAS, before it leaves forever. “We only have one shot at this object and then it’s …

Thanks to NASA’s steadfast commitment to blasting robots into space, we now get regular images from another planet beamed back down to Earth. The current generation of Mars rovers began their adventures – finding strange rocks and potentially getting caught up in the center of electrified dust devils, among other important planetary research – in 2012 and 2021. But before …

TOKYO — NASA officials say there is a “strong chance” that the next test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle will be uncrewed as work continues to fix issues with the spacecraft. To continue reading this article: Register now and get3 free articles every month. You’ll also receive our weekly SpaceNews This Week newsletter every Friday. Opt-out at …

Iliamna Volcano in Alaska ‘rumbling’ after being inactive for a century  NewsNationView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

A groundbreaking discovery in southwestern Kenya has sent shockwaves through the world of archaeology. In the region near Lake Victoria, archaeologists have uncovered ancient stone tools that could rewrite the history of early human development. These tools, which could be up to 3 million years old, were found at a site near fossilized remains of Paranthropus, a distant human ancestor. …

We don’t really know if there is other life in the universe, but due to one failed Moon landing in 2019, we know there is terrestrial life on the Moon… kind of. One small cockup by “man”, one giant spill for tardigrade kind In February 2019, SpaceIL, a private Israeli non-profit that worked in partnership with the Israel Aerospace Industries …