NASA reported Saturday that an asteroid is headed towards Earth one day before the U.S. election day this year, though the chances of an impact are less than one percent. Scientists labeled the asteroid 2018VP1, and data reveals it is 0.002 km or about 6.5 feet, CNN reported. The celestial object was first discovered at the Palomar Observatory in California […]
SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Sunday, following up an historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in yet another first for Elon Musk’s company. With test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken poised to take over manual control if necessary, the SpaceX Dragon capsule pulled up to the station and docked automatically, with […]
NASA’s Jeff Williams and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin were shown blasting off into orbit en route to the International Space Station on NASA TV. The six-hour ride to the International Space Station showed a Russian Soyuz capsule carrying U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams and cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin as they lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome […]
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden about former NASA mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday: “Katherine Johnson once remarked that even though she grew up in the height of segregation, she didn’t think much about it because ‘I didn’t have time for that… don’t have a feeling of inferiority. […]
Research scholar and astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink believes that the announcement by NASA of the discovery of water on Mars comes with egregious headlines, overblown by mass media. Speaking on a RTB podcast, Dr. Zweerink thinks the significance of the find is being blown out of proportion and people ought to take a breath. He said the find does not mean […]
NASA scientists in a mind blowing revelation have announced that they have discovered strong evidence of liquid water on the red planet – Mars. This news has not only gone viral, but also got members of the scientific community excited. “The existence of liquid water, even if it is super salty briny water, gives the possibility that if there’s life […]
