Successful launch for Russian supply rocket

Russian rocket

An unmanned Russian rocket successfully lifted off with a cargo of supplies for the crew of the International Space Station on Sunday, two months after a similar rocket crashed in Siberia. The Progress 45 freighter is slated to dock with the station on Wednesday with three tons of food, fuel, water … [Read more...]

Space junk near a tipping point

Space junk near a tipping point

S ometime today, we'll get a stark reminder that gravity is more than just a theory -- it's the law. A six-ton scientific satellite will fall from its orbit into the Earth's atmosphere and, because of its size and composition, will break into large pieces that will rain down on the planet's … [Read more...]

Hair DNA reveals 2 migration waves out of Africa

Hair DNA reveals 2 migration waves out of Africa

Long, long ago, a bold race of the first modern humans left Africa and transferred across vast expanses of southern Asia to Australia - the massive human migration that followed thousands of years later by a second wave of African migrants who want only in Europe and northern Eurasia continent. The … [Read more...]

Astronomers spot Star Wars-like planet with two suns

two suns

WASHINGTON (IM TECHNO NEWS) – Astronomers have identified the first circumbinary planet, a planet orbiting two stars, similar to the one seen in the 30-year-old Star Wars film. The planet, which has been dubbed Kepler-16b, is located some 200 light-years from Earth and has been described as … [Read more...]

Tiny Neutrinos May Have Broken Cosmic Speed Limit

Neutrinos,albert einstein

The physics world is abuzz with news that a group of European physicists plans to announce Friday that it has clocked a burst of subatomic particles known as neutrinos breaking the cosmic speed limit — the speed of light — that was set by Albert Einstein in 1905. If true, it is a result that … [Read more...]

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