A Russian spacecraft that launched more than 50 years ago will finally crash back down to Earth, but nobody knows where it will land or even if it will fully break apart upon reentry. Kosmos 482, a chunk of a Cold War-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus, is now expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphereContinue Reading
A doomed 53-year-old Soviet lander currently tumbling back to Earth could be trailing a parachute, new images of the spacecraft reveal. The Kosmos 482 probe, which launched in 1972, was built to land on Venus as part of the former U.S.S.R.’s Venera program. But a malfunction in the rocket it was mounted on caused theContinue Reading
In the May 1st Frontier Airlines earnings call, airline executives shared plans to return to profitability by capacity cuts on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday through mid-November to reduce unprofitable flying. Frontier Airlines had a first-quarter 2025 net loss of $43 million, or $0.19 per share. However, Frontier Airlines was ableContinue Reading
As part of its Q1 results presentation, Icelandair has confirmed that it will end twin-aisle jet passenger operations by 2029, with its last Boeing 767-300ER exiting the fleet within the next decade. The Icelandic carrier currently has three passenger 767-300ERs, and one converted 767-300ER freighter.Continue Reading
Computex 2025 is approaching, and it’s sure to bring a ton of announcements about the latest chips, laptops, gaming devices and more from leading brands. The event in Taipei will kick off on Monday, May 19 with a keynote from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at the Taipei Music Center…Continue Reading
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced its reconciliation provisions Wednesday after nixing a $20 universal vehicle registration fee and boosting a fee on electric vehicles to $250, easing party concerns about the controversial charges. That decision to remove the fee, part of the panel’s initial plan to greatly boost highway and infrastructure funding over 10Continue Reading
Scientists at the University of Florida have generated the chromosome-scale genome assembly for the primocane-fruiting, thornless tetraploid blackberry BL1. The post Researchers Sequence Genome of Blackberry appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…Read MoreContinue Reading
AI in Space! – URSA’s Dr. Bell on Robots, Rovers, and Autonomous Frontiers – YouTube Watch On Seems we can’t go through an hour without hearing news about artificial intelligence these days. There are a lot of exciting developments, and some of the most exciting when thinking about space are coming from the USRA’s ResearchContinue Reading
Jupiter-size WD 1856b is nearly seven times larger than the white dwarf it orbits every day and a half. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected the first planet seen orbiting a dead star, offering new insights into how planets evolve during the final stagesContinue Reading
This is the fourth in our series of posts about the winners of this year’s public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ve already covered the Best Remix, Best Deep Cut, and Best Visuals, and today we’re looking at the winner of the Best Adaptation category: Calder’s Circus byContinue Reading
This morning on ABC’s Insider’s program, Shadow Infrastructure minister Bridget McKenzie said that Electric Vehicle drivers should pay a road usage charge and that this will be considered should they win Government at the upcoming Federal Election. The announcement comes during an interview with host David Speers…Continue Reading
The Boeing 777X is the latest generation of the venerable ‘Triple-Seven’ family, and it is expected to enter service in 2026. This means that Boeing is now at a transition point where it finishes fulfilling the remaining backlogs of the old variant and gears up to pump out the newContinue Reading
Just a few days after news broke that American Airlines would be filing suit against JetBlue on account of their failed attempt at establishing a Northeast Alliance, the airline was reported at the end of the day on Friday to be filing a lawsuit against Chicago-O’Hare International Airport (ORD). TheContinue Reading