Category: Space

Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Protecting Elon Musk If His Rockets Explode and Kill Workers

Moreover, the bill expands the definition of “spaceflight entity” to include any entity authorized to conduct spaceflight activities, beyond ones solely associated with the United States Federal Aviation Administration, opening up which entities in the broader industry will qualify for the expanded immunity. The bill also cuts out language ascribing liability to spaceflight entities for […]

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Scientists Discover Time When Our Laws of Physics Didn’t Apply, And We Exist Because of It

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Scientists have discovered new evidence that the universe was briefly governed by different physical laws than it is today, producing a violation to which we owe our very existence, reports a new study. The results open a window into the mysterious epoch […]

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Black Holes Might Really Be Giant Structures Made of Spacetime, Physicists Propose

Image: Johns Hopkins University ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Black holes might really be strange defects in spacetime called topological stars that are generated by hidden cosmic dimensions, reports a new study.  Topological stars are completely hypothetical and only exist as mathematical constructions at this point. However, they […]

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Florida Passes Bill to Protect Billionaires if Their Exploding Rockets Kill People

H.G.: Definitely. And, can I just add to this, Congresswoman Hayes, who was Teacher of the Year, out of Connecticut. And Latoya Cantrell, who is the mayor of New Orleans. She didn’t come out of education and teaching, but she came out with a strong identity as a mother and an activist, post-Katrina. I think […]

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Astronomers capture largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed

It started as an unremarkable flicker in the night sky. But closer observations revealed that astronomers had captured the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed, an event thought to have been triggered by a giant cloud of gas being gobbled up by a supermassive black hole. The flare-up, traced to 8bn light years away, is more […]

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Possible meteorite crashes into bedroom in New Jersey

A possible meteorite crashed into a bedroom of a New Jersey home, puncturing a hole into the roof and leaving residents rattled, though they were not home at the time. The metallic object in the Monday incident looks like a shiny rock, about 4in by 6in, police in Hopewell Township said. The rock appeared to […]

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China revises military conscription laws in space warfare push

China’s government has revised its conscription laws, allowing retired service people to re-enlist and increasing recruitment focused on expertise in space and cyberwarfare. The amended regulations, approved by the state council and the central military commission, came into force on Monday, and covered all aspects of China’s military recruitment and personnel deployment processes, for domestic […]

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Japanese firm’s pioneering moon landing fails

A Japanese startup attempting the first private landing on the moon has lost communication with its spacecraft and said that it assumes the lunar mission had failed. Ispace said that it could not establish communication with the uncrewed Hakuto-R lunar lander after its expected landing time, a frustrating end to a mission that began with […]

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Flash in sky over Kyiv caused by satellite reentering atmosphere

A powerful flash in the sky over the Ukrainian capital that triggered an air raid alert late on Wednesday was caused by a Nasa satellite reentering the atmosphere, city authorities said. “According to preliminary information, this phenomenon was the result of a Nasa space satellite falling to Earth,” the head of Kyiv’s military administration, Serhiy […]

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