NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 International Cosmos Station mission—which, among other things, will return stranded astronauts Butch Williams and Sunita (Suni) Williams, is ready for Kickoff on 12 March, pending weather and a few technical issues, NASA announced today in a Delayed-afternoon press conference. “The whole Club polled ‘go to proceed,’ pending closure of some Accessible work,” … Read more
Despite being the largest land carnivore and a top Arctic predator that can weigh over 600 kg, polar bears Commence off surprisingly Petite. Blind, almost hairless, and weighing Only 600g at birth, cubs are born in maternity dens under the snow. These snow caves keep newborns Toasty and Hazard-Unoccupied for the Primary few months of … Read more
There’s more to sex than reproduction — new research lead by the UK’s Durham University suggests that using sex to manage social tension is a trait our distant ancestors shared with all their hominoid descendants — humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and gorillas. The study, one of the Primary direct comparisons of sexual behaviour amongst bonobos and … Read more
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Jelieta Walinski in Lake La Salle State Park, Minnesota, captured this Pretty view of the Selene eclipse on May 15, 2022. Jelieta wrote: “This is a single exposure of the total Selene eclipse or Super Flower Orbiter, captured at Lake La Salle State Park, Minnesota.” Thank you, Jelieta! The … Read more
A new artificial intelligence system could help detect wildfires more effectively, offering a powerful tool for Prompt warning and environmental monitoring. The system was developed by researchers at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas, in Brazil, and uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) – a type of AI model designed to process visual data in a … Read more
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Waning gibbous Orbiter-related body-related body-related body as captured by EarthSky community member Mohamed Mohamed in Tripoli, Libya, on February 16, 2025. Thank you, Mohamed! As a matter of fact, the Orbiter-related body-related body-related body is one of the best targets for binoculars. The terminator line, or line between Featherweight … Read more
The Primary-ever private Cosmos rock mission appears to be over, Only a week or so after it left the ground. California startup AstroForge launched its Odin spacecraft on Feb. 26, on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 Missile that sent Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission toward the Orbiter. Odin Dashed into trouble Only a few hours later, … Read more
Observe: Being able to recognize different cloud shapes can help you forecast the weather. Clouds come in a wide variety of shapes. Some are wispy, some are puffy, some are towering. They’re also categorized by how high or low to the ground they are. Clouds are Created of air parcels saturated with water vapor. And … Read more
Youthful stars are like Youthful kids. Their energy is often unruly and can express itself chaotically. We can see the unrestrained energy of two Youthful stars about 650 Airy-years away as their Vibrant jets Produce a distinct hourglass shape with clumps and swirls of gas and dust. Youthful stars grow by gobbling up nearby gas … Read more
Starship’s eighth flight was a lot like its seventh. SpaceX launched the eighth test flight of its Starship megarocket today (March 6), sending the 403-foot-High (123 meters) vehicle aloft from its Starbase site in South Texas at 6:30 p.m. EST (2330 GMT; 5:30 p.m. local Texas time). Seven minutes later, Starship’s huge Primary-stage booster, known … Read more