View Post

Blue Origin will launch a New Shepard test flight Tuesday. Here’s how to watch., ,

In Space by Leave a Comment

Update for 11 a.m. ET: Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Shepard spacecraft on the NS-13 mission. Read our full story here. Original story Blue Origin will launch its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on an uncrewed test flight Tuesday morning (Oct. 13), and you can watch the liftoff live. New Shepard is scheduled to launch from Blue Origin’s West …

View Post

China’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe snaps epic deep-space selfie (photos), ,

In Space by Leave a Comment

China’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe is seen by a tiny camera ejected from the spacecraft in a photo captured 15 million miles from Earth. (Image credit: CNSA) China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft has beamed home some deep-space selfies snapped by a small camera jettisoned during its journey to Mars. A small camera with wide-angle lenses on both sides was ejected from the outside …

View Post

Scientists call for serious study of ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’, ,

In Space by Leave a Comment

The U.S. Navy recently admitted that, indeed, strangely behaving objects caught on video by jet pilots over the years are genuine head-scratchers. There are eyewitness accounts not only from pilots but from radar operators and technicians, too. In August, the Navy established an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force to investigate the nature and origin of these odd sightings and …