Apr 26 2024
A piece of space junk from Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew-1 craft recently crash-landed on a farmer’s property in Australia after it launched into space in November 2020. The family of farmer Mick Miners were alerted to the arrival of the […]
Sultan AlNeyadi will be the first astronaut from an Arab country to conduct a six-month mission on the International Space Station. The announcement will see the United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut fly to the orbiting lab on SpaceX’s Crew-6 mission, which is […]
Dubai-UAE: As we are reaching the end of June, a rare sight awaits in the pre-dawn sky: a parade of planets. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, all five planets that can be seen in the sky with just our […]
San Francisco: SpaceX has launched and landed three rockets in a span of 36 hours. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying a communications satellite for the Louisiana-based company Globalstar to orbit. […]
Abu Dhabi: From May 15, 2022, until today the world will observe a total lunar eclipse, which will not be visible from the eastern parts of the Arab world. Mohammed Shawkat Odeh, Director of the International Astronomy Centre (IAC), said, […]
FLORIDA: The third long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) safely returned to Earth early, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida to end months of orbital research ranging from space-grown chillies to […]
NASA announces plans to test a catapult that can fling objects into space at 5,000miles per hour. It works by revolving a carbon fibre arm within a steel vacuum chamber that measures 91 metres in diameter. The system first sounds […]
WASHINGTON: The first all-private team of astronauts comprising three businessmen and a former astronaut, arrived yesterday at the International Space Station (ISS), aboard a SpaceX rocket, Reuters reported. The Ax-1 mission commander, Spanish-American Michael Lopez-Alegria, along with Canadian Mark Pathy, […]
CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA’s next-generation moon rocket began a highly anticipated, slow-motion journey out of its assembly plant en route to the launch pad in Florida for a final round of tests in the coming weeks that will determine how soon […]
DUBAI: The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration was undertaken by an Arab nation, is returning a number of unique observations of Martian dust storms, providing an unparalleled depth of information and insight into the way in which these […]
Three thousand kilograms of space junk has just crashed into the moon at frightening speeds of 9,334 kilometres per hour as per calculations. It’s is said that the crash will send moon dust and flying rock into space. Sadly, telescopes […]
