It was a Friday morning when NASA astronaut Alan Shepard climbed into the Freedom 7 capsule and blasted off to space to make history. Just 23 days prior, the Soviet Union had successfully sent Yuri Gagarin to space, a setback in the race for space for the United States. It’s been 58 years since Shepard became […]

Prof Stephen Hawking’s final research paper suggests that our Universe may be one of many similar to our own. The theory resolves a cosmic paradox of the late physicist’s own making. It also points a way forward for astronomers to find evidence of the existence of parallel universes. The study was submitted to the Journal of […]

Going back millions of years into Earth’s history, our planet’s magnetic field has frequently gone its own way. The magnetic north pole has not only wandered through the north, but it has changed places with the south magnetic pole, taking up residence in the Antarctic. Going back millions of years, there’s a regular pattern of […]

Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Lyakhov, who logged almost a year in Earth orbit living aboard three different space stations, has died at the age of 76. The Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, where Lyakhov prepared for his three space missions in Star City, Russia, confirmed he died on Thursday(April 19), noting only that it was sudden. “A bright […]

On Sunday there will be a full pink moon hanging over the U.S. The term is used to refer to April’s full moon, but don’t expect to look up to the sky and find a blast of cotton-candy-pink. Despite its name, the pink moon is not rose colored, but that doesn’t make it any less spectacular […]

SYDNEY – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will receive A$500 million ($379.10 million) in new funding to restore water quality and protect the coral from starfish attacks, government ministers announced on Sunday. Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg said in a televised interview that some of the money would go directly to farmers to modify their practices “to […]

The spider was first observed by Australian biologist Barbara York Main in 1974, shortly after it was born. Australian scientists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest spider, a creature that had most likely outlived the previous record holder by about 15 years. In a study published in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology and cited […]

April 25 (UPI) — As recently as a century ago, the people of New Guinea were carving daggers from the thighbones of cassowaries, flightless, dinosaur-like birds. The most feared and respected warriors, however, wielded daggers carved from the femurs of either their vanquished enemies or their deceased fathers. A new study, published this week in the journal […]

Elon Musk, the man behind the continued success and popularity of the SpaceX, continues to dominate the world of space explorations. As based on the recent report from the SpaceX, the entire purpose of the company is to develop a sustainable and feasible model of transportation on the interplanetary that can transport humans to the […]

NASA has partnered with The Fairchild Challenge — an annual standards-based environmental outreach programme which reaches more than 125,000 students annually — to help determine which edible plants might be suitable for growth in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in the Veggie growth chamber. Not only scientists with advanced degrees but students are also […]