US defence experts have raised the alarm as China amasses a huge military space network in a major threat to Taiwan and its allies. The US Space Force issued the stark warning earlier this week as Beijing looks set to triple the
Russia has raised fears it may plan a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space just months after it reportedly obtained anti-satellite weapons. The country’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, vetoed on April 24 a resolution sponsored by the US
A U.S.-led resolution that would prevent using nuclear weapons in outer space received dozens of co-sponsors, but Russia vetoed the measure amid reports it has deployed a weapon that can destroy satellites. “The detonation of a nuclear weapon in space would destroy
China’s space agency is making final preparations to send a new crew to its space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put people on the moon by 2030. The three-member crew of the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft will
For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived temporarily of oxygen, taught to camp in the snow, and schooled in physiology, anatomy, astronomy, meteorology, robotics, and Russian. On Monday, the
The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) has reportedly been left baffled after discovering “drug-resistant bacteria” on board. Researchers orbiting Earth have confirmed the presence of the bacteria, which poses a risk of evolving into even more resilient strains that could
A driver took brutal revenge on their neighbour who had been parking in their space for three years. A 30-minute clip posted on YouTube by towing company Everything Auto saw the company called by the driver who explained their parking woes before
An incredible human drama in space exploration ended with the miraculous safe return of the three Apollo 13 astronauts on this day in history, April 17, 1970. “In Mission Control, pandemonium erupted,” NASA reports of the joy that overwhelmed the command center
The world will end with a “big crunch”, say scientists monitoring dark matter acriss the universe. The good news is that boffins working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic group say there is plenty of time until the cosmic event would happen. The
NASA has confirmed that a mystery object that wreaked havoc in a Florida home by crashing through its roof originated from the International Space Station. The peculiar occurrence took place in Naples, Florida, last month. The cylindrical object was analyzed at the