SpaceX’s SN series’ rockets are heavy-lift launch vehicles that’s being developed to carry cargo and human passengers to Earth’s orbit and beyond. Unlike the Falcon series, Starship is a two-stage reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle, consisting of ‘Starship’ and ‘Super Heavy Booster rocket’. It would be functioning for service missions to[Read More…]

For the first time ever, scientists have collected environmental DNA (eDNA) from the air. The practice, still at its primary stage, could revolutionize forensics, anthropology, and even medicine. The scientists first took air samples from a room that had housed naked mole rats and showed that air DNA sampling could[Read More…]

A new region of the Milky Way was detected by astrophysicists, and it’s filled with hot, luminous stars which are nearing their death through a supernova explosion.   The researchers have named the region, the Cepheus spur, while they were studying our galactic neighborhood. The astronomers teamed up with the European[Read More…]

NASA has discovered there may be a lot fewer galaxies than initially believed, opening up the possibility that humans are alone in the universe. The data provided by New Horizons Mission determines that the number of galaxies is anywhere in the hundred billion range rather than 2 trillion as supposed[Read More…]

Over the night sky of Vermont, a meteor streaked through on Sunday 7th March, creating a spectacular light show and shook the bones of people as it burned through the atmosphere.  The meteor’s explosive trajectory through the atmosphere released the energy equivalent of 440 pounds or 200 kilograms of TNT,[Read More…]

A new study has found that hot rock surging from deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean may be driving the continents on either side apart. Claiming that each year, the Americas get a few centimeters farther away from Europe and Africa. The tectonic plates underlying those continents are drifting apart. Researchers[Read More…]

A Spacecraft Named For ‘Hidden Figures’ Mathematician Katherine Johnson Has Arrived on the International Space Station Katherine Johnson has been named in honor of Katherine Johnson, a Black NASA mathematician, who played a critical role in the success of the first U.S. crewed spaceflight, Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. The S.S. Katherine[Read More…]