A cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured stunning images of the record-setting Soyuz aircraft launch that brought three of his colleagues to the orbiting laboratory.
It was at 1.45 a.m. EDT on Wednesday when NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov were transported...
An experimental medication that was recently shown to slow the progression of the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has now demonstrated the potential to also prolong patient survival. The findings come from a clinical trial conducted by investigators at the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS...
Congratulations to Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty! In a new Instagram post today, October 15th, Her Pinkness confirmed the birth of her first child, a baby boy. Via TMZ, the birth took place on Wednesday, September 30th.
Minaj didn’t reveal the child’s name or any baby pictures. But...
The oxygen supply system providing the Russian segment on board the International Space Station with air has failed, Agence France-Presse reports — the same Zvezda module that’s slowly leaking air into space.
Russian space corporation Roscosmos maintains that the crew is still in no danger. Repairs have reportedly already started.
“Nothing...
Venture Beyond Earth is the theme of this year's Jasper's Dark Sky Festival, Oct. 16 to 25.
It's the tenth anniversary of the hugely popular event.
Niki Wilson, a science journalist who has hosted the festival for seven years, said she's pleased to offer festival-goers an exciting program.
“Jasper National Park is...
Hey, remember Betelgeuse? It caused quite a kerfuffle both among astronomers and normal people in late 2019 and early 2020 when the star's brightness dropped precipitously. There was much speculation in social media that it might explode, but astronomers knew this was incredibly unlikely. What they were more concerned...
Chrissy Teigen has broken her silence after revealing she suffered a miscarriage. Taking to her Instagram page on Friday, the 34-year-old reassured her fans that both she and her family are "okay".
"We are quiet but we are okay. Love you all so much," she wrote alongside a screengrab of...
Pfizer Inc said on Friday it may file for United States authorisation of the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with German partner BioNTech in late November, making it unlikely a vaccine will be available before the US election as President Donald Trump has promised.
Pfizer said that it may say...
In case you hadn’t already heard: Space junk is becoming a real problem. There’s so much manmade trash floating around in Earth’s orbit that it’s actually posing a danger to future space missions and even ongoing programs like the International Space Station. It’s bad, and with companies like SpaceX...
Indiana Jones has nothing on Nathan Hrushkin.
That's because back in July, the 12-year-old Calgary resident went fossil hunting with his dad Dion, and hit paydirt, when he found a fossil of a 69-million-year-old hadrosaur in the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Nodwell property at Horseshoe Canyon.
“I know that it’s...
