SpaceX's prototype Starship launches in a short first flight test at the company's facility in Boca Chica, Texas.SpaceXThe fifth prototype of SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket passed its most critical test yet, taking off and landing in a short flight on Tuesday at the company's facility in Texas.Starship prototype Serial Number 5, standing at about 100…
Just a few months after a group of researchers trumpeted their discovery of the world's tiniest dinosaur, the same researchers have retracted their findings, noting it was likely a lizard instead.The reclassification of the reptile, known as Oculudentavis khaungraae, comes after a separate group of researchers questioned the findings and study methodology that had been published on the bioRxiv server."We, the authors,…
Plunging back to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Sunday amounted to a high-speed thrill ride, astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken reported Tuesday. The fiery, flawlessly-controlled descent to splashdown went off without a hitch — a major step toward certifying the vehicle for operational flights. "What a ride!" Behnken tweeted, sharing long-range tracking…
Illustration of a star's wobble in space. (Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF) The hunt for exoplanets in our galaxy is a deeply important endeavour. The more exoplanets we find, the better we can understand our own Solar System - and how life emerges in the Universe. To date, over 4,000 exoplanets have been confirmed - but a…
Home News Spaceflight SpaceX just flew a full-size prototype of its Starship Mars-colonizing spacecraft for the first time ever.The Starship SN5 test vehicle took to the skies for about 40 seconds this afternoon (Aug. 4) at SpaceX's facilities near the South Texas village of Boca Chica, performing a small hop that could end up being…
By Joey Roulette(Reuters) - U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, home two days from a landmark mission as NASA's first crew to fly a privately built vehicle into orbit, recounted on Tuesday the loud, jarring ride they experienced through Earth's atmosphere before a safe landing at sea.Their splash-down on Sunday in the Gulf of…
The big metal silo can fly! GIF by Eric Mack/CNET Elon Musk and SpaceX took their latest step toward Mars and the stated goal of making humanity a multi-planetary species ... by shooting a giant metal thermos into the Texas sky Tuesday evening. The company performed an almost 500-foot (150 meter) "hop" of its SN5 Starship…
Plunging back to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Sunday amounted to a high-speed thrill ride, astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken reported Tuesday. The fiery, flawlessly-controlled descent to splashdown went off without a hitch — a major step toward certifying the vehicle for operational flights. "What a ride!" Behnken tweeted, sharing long-range tracking…
MILAN (Reuters) - New car registrations in Italy fell for the seventh consecutive month in July, declining 11% from the previous year to 136,455 vehicles, the transport ministry said on Monday. Sales at Fiat Chrysler (FCA) (FCHA.MI), the country’s largest automaker, fell 9% year-on-year in July. Its market share stood at 22.75% compared with 21.87%…
9:03 AM ETAdam RittenbergESPN Senior Writer Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.The Big Ten will play a 10-game, conference-only football schedule that begins Labor Day weekend and includes ample flexibility, the league announced Wednesday morning.Each team has two open weeks, and the schedule has four weeks built in to…
They don’t want no scrubs.Screenshot: Work It trailer/NetflixIn Stephen King’s IT, a sort of curse lies on the town of Derry, Maine. Every 27 years, the demonic spirit of Pennywise returns to the town and preys on its children. It turns out a similar curse hangs over Hollywood, but instead of a literal demon returning…
Above: Some runner-up favorites. For titles and artists see below.If you follow me on Instagram you have quite likely also come across Posterphilia, a movie poster-centric feed curated by poster connoisseur Jahan Singh Bakshi. Jahan is kind of my counterpart on the other side of the globe: an art director and film marketing strategist from…
coronavirus-related deaths Thursday, according to officials with the Florida Department of Health.Florida’s COVID-19 death toll grew Thursday, reaching 144. As of Thursday, more than 1,100 people statewide are hospitalized with severe cases of the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus.Some of those fatalities were reported in Central Florida, including in Flagler, Lake, Orange, Osceola,…
Actor Varun Dhawan, who is currently busy with the promotions of his upcoming film Street Dancer 3D, shared a new picture of himself in ripped shorts as he posed alongside two adorable dogs. This gave enough fodder to his industry friends who did not kill time in making fun of the actor.Varun’s Sui Dhaaga co-star…