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According to new research, the massive heft of Jupiter may have disturbed Venus's orbit to the point where it was no longer capable of hosting life.

Science & Energy

Research: Jupiter Likely Turned Venus Into an Uninhabitable Hellhole

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent tweet, Elon Musk argued that fusion energy will probably be more expensive than wind and solar. Experts are divided.

Elon Musk: Fusion Will Probably Be More Expensive Than Wind, Solar

By Victor Tangermann

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency just handed out a $14 million dollar contract to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion system in space.

DARPA Is Considering a Nuclear Rocket for Moon Missions

By Victor Tangermann

China just showed off a rocket that could send astronauts to the Moon — but when is still a big question mark.

China Reveals Rocket to Send Astronauts to Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just spotted a brief, but extremely intense event: a star self-detonating star some 70 million light-years away.

Science & Energy

Hubble Just Watched a Star Explode In a Massive Supernova

By Victor Tangermann

CNBC reports that side effects of several COVID vaccines can include high fever, exhaustion, and headaches. They mostly don't last for more than a day.

COVID Vaccines Can Have Some Nasty Side Effects — But Only For a Day

By Victor Tangermann

It may be many years away — but the Space Force is already considering the possibility of putting the first troops into space and establish a base there.

US General: Space Force May Build a Moon Base

By Victor Tangermann

Following a landmark European court ruling, Facebook is warning that it may pull out of Europe entirely, as The Guardian reports.

Facebook Threatens to Pull Out of Europe Entirely

By Victor Tangermann

A new video shows a Marine Corps F-35B fighter jet crashing into the ground in a massive ball of flame after colliding with a tanker aircraft.

Robots and Machines

Watch a US Fighter Jet Smash Into the Ground in a Huge Fireball

By Victor Tangermann

Washington state emergency responders were able to get early access to SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband service for regions affected by wildfires.

SpaceX Gives Early Starlink Internet to Towns Destroyed by Wildfires

By Victor Tangermann

As their eerie name suggests, "zombie storms" occurs when strong tropical climates cause storms to come back from the dead.

Science & Energy

National Weather Service Warns of “Zombie Storms”

By Victor Tangermann

According to an update, NASA's ground analysis concluded that the leak on board the International Space Station "appeared to grow in size."

International Space Station

NASA Says the International Space Station Is Leaking Faster Now

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has officially set the date for SpaceX's long awaited Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station for 2:40 am Eastern time on October 31.

NASA: Next SpaceX Astronaut Launch Will Be on Halloween

By Victor Tangermann

A UK helicopter emergency services charity is in talks with Gravity Industries to allow paramedics to jetpack up a mountain to provide first aid.

Robots and Machines

Paramedics Test Jetpack For Daring Mountain Rescues

By Victor Tangermann

Japan Outlines Plan to Power Spacecraft With Moon Ice

Japan Outlines Plan to Power Spacecraft With Moon Ice

By Victor Tangermann

Investigations reveal that hundreds of elephants died due to cyanobacteria, toxic microscopic algae found in larger bodies of blue-green water.

Hundreds of Elephants Suddenly Dropped Dead Because of Neurotoxin, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

An open-source hearing aid built using off-the-shelf parts could slash the price of otherwise prohibitively expensive hearing aids to a single dollar.

Prosthetics and Devices

Researchers Invent $1 Hearing Aid

By Victor Tangermann

A number of airports in Europe are working to bring 30 minute COVID-19 tests to airports, in the hopes of breathing new life into the industry.

Advanced Transport

Airports Are Rolling Out 30 Minute COVID Tests

By Victor Tangermann

In a recently uploaded preprint, researchers argue that the discovery of phosphine on Venus could be chalked up to asteroids grazing Earth's atmosphere.

Science & Energy

Life May Have Hopped From Earth to Venus on Asteroid, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

NASA engineers working on the Orion capsule meant to carry astronauts to the Moon have a smelly problem: how to design a space toilet that doesn't smell.

The Space Station Toilet Apparently Smells Horrible

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists claim they have determined a way to figure out if there's life living underground on faraway places, including the Moon and Mars.

Science & Energy

Harvard Study: We Shouldn’t Rule Out Underground Life on the Moon and Mars

By Victor Tangermann

California governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order today that calls for a complete ban of the sale of any new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

California Is Banning All Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars in Just 15 Years

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have turned the first ever image of a black hole released last year into a short animation by digging through their archives.

Science & Energy

Astrophysicists Release Landmark “Movie” of Wobbling Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Watch Japan’s 60 Foot Gundam Robot Take a Gigantic Knee

Watch Japan’s 60 Foot Gundam Robot Take a Gigantic Knee

By Victor Tangermann

During Tesla's Battery Day event Tuesday evening, CEO Elon Musk showed off a video of its upcoming "Plaid" version of its Model S sedan.

Tesla’s “Plaid” Model S is Real and It’s Fast as Hell

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just deliberately blew up its latest Starship prototype test tank during a pressure test Tuesday night at the company's test site in Texas.

Watch a SpaceX Starship Test Tank Explode Spectacularly

By Victor Tangermann

By digging through infrared images of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, scientists have found "strong evidence" of "fresh ice" in its northern hemisphere.

Science & Energy

NASA Finds Evidence of “Fresh Ice” on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

By Victor Tangermann

The Wyoming Banking Board just voted to approve Kraken, a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, as a special purpose depository institution.

For the First Time, a Cryptocurrency Exchange Is Becoming a US Bank

By Victor Tangermann

According to a short-seller report, Nikola Motors lied about its One electric semi truck, claiming it was capable of propelling itself in 2018. It couldn't.

Tesla Competitor Admits It Rolled Semi Truck Prototype Down a Hill in 2018 Promo Because It Couldn’t Drive

By Victor Tangermann

Aerospace multinational Airbus is investigating a new way for airliners to save fuel: fly in formation, just like a herd of migrating geese.

Advanced Transport

Here’s Why Airliners Might Soon Fly in Formation Like Birds

By Victor Tangermann

During Tesla's Battery Day event on Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk revealed how batteries could be integrated into the structural elements of the car.

Elon Musk: In Future Teslas, “Structural Battery” Will Be Part of the Car’s Frame

By Victor Tangermann

During an event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that his company is planning to get a $25,000 electric car into production within the next three years.

Elon Musk Promises $25,000 Tesla by 2023

By Victor Tangermann

According to a statement by Russian space agency Roscosmos, Russia wants to become the first country in the world to shoot a movie in space.

Russia Wants to Be the First to Shoot a Movie In Space

By Victor Tangermann

During its latest drone delivery trial, retail giant Walmart started delivering at-home COVID-19 tests in North Las Vegas.

Walmart Is Delivering COVID Tests Via Drone

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is yet on another budget crunch in its efforts to realize the Trump administration's ambitious plans to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024.

NASA Unveils Flabbergasting Budget For Moon Missions

By Victor Tangermann

To anticipate the massive amounts of hype surrounding Tesla's Battery Day, Elon Musk clarified something "important:" the tech is still two years away.

Elon Musk: Tesla’s Next Gen Battery Tech Still Two Years Away

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spotted some strangely light colored rocks on the surface of asteroid Bennu — likely from an entirely different asteroid.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Spot Bits of Entirely Different Asteroid on Surface of Bennu

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a "pi Earth," an Earth-sized planet that orbits its star every 3.14 Earth days.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover “Pi Earth” Planet That Orbits Every 3.14 Days

By Victor Tangermann

European aerospace corporation Airbus has come up with three "ZEROe" airplane designs that rely on hydrogen power — not polluting aviation-grade kerosene.

Airbus Unveils Three Designs for Hydrogen-Powered Planes

By Victor Tangermann

German Aerospace Center (DLR) has come with a fully modular futuristic vehicle concept that looks unlike anything we've seen before.

Advanced Transport

German Space Agency Shows Off Outrageous Modular Vehicle Prototype

By Victor Tangermann

Nikola founder and executive chairman Trevor Milton is officially stepping down from the company's board of directors following fraud allegations.

Founder of Tesla Competitor Nikola Steps Down Amid Fraud Scandal

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has built a system that could make landing on the Moon or Mars a whole lot less risky — and it already has plans to test it out on an upcoming mission.

NASA Has Figured Out a New Way to Safely Land on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

"Pandemic fatigue" is causing numbers of confirmed cases of COVID-19 to surge in parts of Europe, particularly in France and Spain.

WHO Says Europe Is Headed Into Another Potential Pandemic Crisis

By Victor Tangermann

During a media briefing, a Ford VP claimed that the company's upcoming F-150 EV pickup will be a "real" work truck" — not a "lifestyle" truck.

Advanced Transport

Ford VP Disses Cybertruck, Calling Electric F-150 a “Real” Work Truck

By Victor Tangermann

According to raw video footage uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, Lucid completed a lap of Laguna Seca in a blistering 1:33 using a tri-motor Air prototype.

Tesla Competitor Lucid Beats Model S Prototype Record on Racetrack

By Victor Tangermann

According to satellite imagery and ship tracking data, China is preparing to launch its Chang'e-5 sample return mission to the Moon.

China Planning to Launch Lunar Sample Return Mission in November

By Victor Tangermann

The Trump Administration is taking the unprecedented step of barring Chinese-owned mobile apps WeChat and TikTok from US app stores starting Sunday.

Trump Admin to Shut Down TikTok App Downloads on Sunday

By Victor Tangermann

Last month, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took a gorgeous new close-up image of Jupiter some 406 million miles from Earth, with Europa off to the left.

Science & Energy

Hubble Catches Massive New Storm Brewing on Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

Space Hero, a US-based production company, has figured out a way to secure a spot on a 2023 mission to the International Space Station

International Space Station

Reality TV Show Says It Will Send Contestant to International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers are suggesting we could use one of the most common organic polymers on Earth to construct shelters on Mars.

Scientists: We Could Build Mars Shelters Out of Insect Polymers and Martian Soil

By Victor Tangermann

Beijing-based private space mining company Origin Space is launching its first ever "space mining robot" in November on top of a Long March series rocket.

Chinese Startup Launching Space Mining Robot in November

By Victor Tangermann

Thousands of people in northwest China have caught a bacterial disease after a leak caused an outbreak at a biopharmaceutical last year, CNN reports.

Thousands Infected by Bacteria After Leak at Chinese Pharmaceutical Factory

By Victor Tangermann

German startup Volocopter just announced its taking reservations for the first-ever public electric air taxi rides on board its VoloCity aircraft.

Advanced Transport

This Company Just Opened Reservations for Public Air Taxi Flights

By Victor Tangermann

Human "safety driver" Rafaela Vasquez was charged with one count of negligent homicide following a 2018 deadly car crash involving an Uber self-driving car.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Uber’s “Safety Driver” During Deadly Self-Driving Car Crash Charged With Negligent Homicide

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, a team of astronomers has detected a massive planet orbiting a white dwarf at a very close distance, circling it every 34 hours.

Astronomers Detect First-Ever Planet Closely Orbiting a White Dwarf

By Victor Tangermann

Military contractor Dynetics has revealed a full-scale model of its human landing system designed to return NASA astronauts to the Moon in 2024.

New Video Shows Inside of NASA Contractor’s Proposed Lunar Lander

By Victor Tangermann

Walmart just kicked off its own drone delivery pilot, a collaboration with Flytrex, an end-to-end drone delivery company.

Walmart Just Started Delivering Stuff With Drones

By Victor Tangermann

In a preprint paper, physics professor Vitaly Vanchurin from the University of Minnesota Duluth argues that the entire universe may be a neural network.

Artificial Intelligence

Physicist: The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network

By Victor Tangermann

Here’s Why Smartphones Are Struggling to Take Pics of Apocalyptic Skies

Here’s Why Smartphones Are Struggling to Take Pics of Apocalyptic Skies

By Victor Tangermann

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to carry what will soon become the International Space Station's first privately-built airlock.

International Space Station

The ISS Is About to Get Its First Commercial Airlock

By Victor Tangermann

Russian space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin called Venus a "Russian planet" on Tuesday at an industry exhibition taking place in Moscow.

Head of Russian Space Program Says Venus Is a “Russian Planet”

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has teamed up with legendary Italian carmaker Lamborghini to create... an electric go kart from hell?

Advanced Transport

This Electric Lamborghini Go-Kart Looks Fun as Hell

By Victor Tangermann

Private New Zealand-based space company Rocket Lab is already working on sending a probe to Venus's atmosphere to look for signs of life.

Science & Energy

Life on Venus? This Rocket Company Is Already Planning a Mission to Have a Closer Look

By Victor Tangermann

Prosthetics and Devices

The Next Apple Watch Will Track Your Blood Oxygen Level

By Victor Tangermann

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