ISTANBUL (AA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has postponed the launch of its rover to explore the moon for a second time. Rashid Rover, the Arab world’s first lunar mission, was originally scheduled to blast off on Wednesday, but was delayed for one day until Thursday before it was postponed once again. iSpace, a […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UAE has announced the postponement until Thursday of the launch of its spacecraft to explore the moon. “Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre announces new launch date for the Emirates Lunar Mission, tomorrow, 1st of December at 12:37 PM (UAE time),” or 0837GMT, the official Emirates news agency said in a Wednesday [&helli...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia will leave the International Space Station (ISS) project in two years, the head of the Russian Space Corporation (Roscosmos) Yury Borisov has said. After 2024, it was decided to leave the ISS, Borisov added. He, however, said Russia would continue to fulfill its obligations in the program. During a meeting with [&hel...
On Tuesday, the U.S. House Intelligence Committee received a classified briefing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Unidentified Flying Objects. It’s the first time in a half-century the two are being addressed as potential foreign threats to the nation. Committee member Congressman Rick Crawford said intelligence agencies must prevent poten...
Researchers have discovered the first known interstellar meteor to hit Earth, according to a recently released United States Space Command document. An interstellar meteor is a space rock originating from outside the solar system. The meteor, known as CNEOS 2014-01-08, crash-landed along the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea on Jan. 8, 2014...
U.S. biotechnology company Moderna plans to invest more than $500 million in a vaccine and drug manufacturing facility in Kenya. Leaders of the African nation signed a memorandum of understanding with Moderna on Monday in the capital Nairobi. The new facility will help address the problem of vaccine inequity experienced across Africa. Kenyan P...
Environmental justice advocates say a methane plume seen last month from space is the latest evidence that fossil fuel emissions must be reined in. Geoanalytics firm Kayrros SAS detected the plume of invisible greenhouse gas, which spanned 56 miles across Louisiana, Bloomberg reported. It’s the largest concentration of the gas seen via satelli...
The three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020 had sent a litany of racist social media posts and texts. That’s according to the second day of testimony Tuesday in the federal hate-crimes trial for Arbery’s murder in Georgia’s Brunswick U.S. District Court. Father and son, Greg and Travis McMichael, and their neighbor [&hell...
Graphene, a “wonder material” thinner than paper and 200 times stronger than steel, has many potential uses such as energy generation and tissue engineering. It’s also one of the most expensive materials to produce. But Arsheen Allam, founder and CEO of the Durham, North Carolina based cleantech startup GOLeafe, has developed a low-cost, susta...
COVID-19 survivors are at a greater long-term risk of developing heart disease, strokes, blood clots, and other cardiovascular disorders, according to a new study released Monday. Published in Nature Medicine, the study found people who survive COVID-19 are more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease a year later. That’s even if t...
