Topline Pioneering zoologist and animal rights activist Jane Goodall has died, according to a statement from the Jane Goodall Institute, which said it learned of her passing Wednesday morning. Goodall’s passing was announced Wednesday. Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa (Photo by Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images) dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Key Facts Goodall died of…
Elon Musk boasts he will launch a squad of Optimus humanoid robots to Mars aboard his Starship super-capsules, but a leading U.S. robotics scholar predicts their quick demise (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images) CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images While SpaceX founder Elon Musk has pledged to despatch a crew of Optimus…
NASA’s ex-Administrator told Congress the U.S. is in danger of losing the new space race to the Moon due to SpaceX’s cascading delays in perfecting its Starship lunar lander. (Photo by Loren Elliott/Getty Images) Getty Images Even as a backlash to SpaceX’s hold-ups in perfecting its Starship lunar lander builds across the U.S. Congress, Elon…
Modern science has yielded immense benefits to society, yet it has also suffered greatly at the hands of several major nations. Politics and ideology, not religion, have been the reason. The brutalities of Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and Maoist China effectively erased what should have been vital centers of research from the landscape of global…
Topline The northern lights could make an appearance in eight northern U.S. states Thursday night, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ahead of an expected much weaker auroral showing Friday night. The northern lights have a small chance at showing in eight U.S. states. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Copyright 2023 The Associated Press….
SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission coming to an end; 4 astronauts to return from International Space Station on Aug. 7, 2025 Almost five months into the mission, the crew — NASA’s Anne McClain (commander) and Nichole Ayers, JAXA’s Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos’s Kirill Peskov — were flying over Mongolia when a workload scenario was suddenly imposed including…
One of history’s most famous space photographs transformed a lunar crater, and now it has shown researchers how to look for alien life. This view, made possible by the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) launched in April 2023 and on its way to Jupiter, shows a test of JUICE’s radar system conducted…
In early August 2025, Rocket Lab successfully launched QPS-SAR-12 (nicknamed Kushinada-I), a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite built by Japan’s iQPS (Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space). This mission, called “The Harvest Goddess Thrives” in honor of a Japanese goddess of harvest and prosperity, was Rocket Lab’s fifth dedicated launch for iQPS. The 59-foot (18-meter) Electron…
Expedition 73 welcomed Crew-11 in an early morning port visit at 3:46 a.m. EDT when the hatches between the International Space Station (ISS) and SpaceX Dragon spacecraft were opened, allowing for Crew-11 to transfer over to join the team on board the orbiting laboratory. The event was also live-streamed on NASA+ but returned shortly after…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has returned to Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field, capturing over 2,500 galaxies across cosmic history. It is part of JWST’s JADES survey, re-imaging the same patch in infrared. Webb’s infrared cameras (NIRCam and MIRI) see much fainter objects than Hubble. While Hubble’s UDF showed about 10,000 galaxies in visible light,…