Category: Technology

NASA’s Psyche mission is off to explore the metal-rich asteroid that may shed light on our own planet’s formation. Watch the Psyche spacecraft launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 UTC) Friday, Oct. 13. The mission […]

Seeing elephants in the wild is a timelessly awe-inspiring experience. There are only three living species today: the African savannah elephant, African forest elephant, and Asian elephant. They are the remnants of a once prosperous lineage of megaherbivores called proboscideans, whose evolutionary epic spanned 60 million years and some 200 species. The African continent was […]

The Ring of Fire: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse – Live The Ring of Fire: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse, official NASA broadcast. Watch live as a “ring of fire” eclipse travels across the United States on Oct. 14, 2023, from Oregon to Texas. This event occurs when the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun, […]

Nissan Hyper Adventure Concept EV Nissan Hyper adventure concept EV is a sports SUV designed for people passionate about outdoor adventures and an eco-friendly lifestyle. Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. unveiled the Hyper Adventure EV concept, for the Japan Mobility Show on October 25. The Hyper Adventure concept and its V2X technology are envisioned to sustain […]

SpaceX Starship Factory SpaceX is under construction of an ambitious plan to mass-produce Starship rockets at a new factory in Starbase, Texas. Starship, the largest rocket ever created will send massive payloads into orbit at an affordable cost. SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket – collectively called Starship – represent a fully reusable transportation […]

There are estimated to be nearly 8 million species of animals living today, making up the majority of Earth’s documented biodiversity and inhabiting almost all of its environments. However, for most of Earth’s history animals were completely absent. The date of the first animals marks a shift in the history of life on Earth. Of […]

On September 24 this year, a Nasa capsule parachuted down to Earth carrying a precious cache of material grabbed from an asteroid. The space agency has now revealed images and a preliminary analysis of the space rocks it found after lifting the lid off that capsule. The mission to the asteroid was called Osiris-Rex, and […]

An ExTrA special planet hunter. The white pearl on the left side of this picture is one of the Exoplanets in Transits and their Atmosphere telescopes — ExTrA for short. Located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory at an altitude of 2375m, ExTrA is a French national project comprising three 60-centimeter telescopes that are working towards […]

It’s unlikely to be a bad omen, but Nasa’s mission Psyche is currently due to launch on Friday 13 October. Lifting off at 10.19 EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, it faces a perilous journey and isn’t scheduled for arrival at its namesake asteroid, 16 Pscyhe, until 2029. Asteroid 16 Psyche (meaning “soul” in […]

Wingcopter drones, groceries from the air, delivered everyday goods for the first time to remote districts in Germany. A pilot project from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and Wingcopter started in the region of Odenwald, Germany. They have launched the “DroLEx – Drohnen-Lastenrad-Express-Belieferung“ (“Drone-Cargo Bike Express Delivery”) project. Under the name “LieferMichel,” the pilot […]