Technology

Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and his team made history on Thursday by leading the first-ever private spacewalk conducted by non-professional astronauts. The mission, organized in partnership with SpaceX, took place hundreds of miles above Earth. Before beginning the spacewalk, Isaacman and his crew waited for their capsule to depressurize, then opened the hatch. Isaacman, 41, who is the CEO and …

Scientists have discovered two supermassive black holes orbiting each other approximately 800 million light-years away from Earth. This marks the closest detection of such black holes, which are predicted to eventually collide, potentially shaking the very fabric of space-time. In a paper published in *The Astrophysical Journal*, a research team led by Anna Trindade Falcao, a postdoctoral researcher at the …

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has been traveling through interstellar space since its launch in 1977, is once again successfully communicating with Earth after engineers solved a critical thruster issue. The spacecraft, designed to explore the outer planets, had encountered problems staying oriented towards Earth due to its aging thrusters. To fix the issue, NASA scientists had to switch Voyager …

Mars, Earth’s closest planetary neighbor, has long fascinated scientists who have been exploring it for potential signs of life and the possibility of future human habitation. A recent study has revealed stunning cloud patterns that appear on the red planet. Since 2005, the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has been capturing images …

According to a report on Earth.com, a mysterious force has caused the boundaries of our solar system to expand, likely due to a passing star. Astrophysicist Susanne Pfalzner from Forschungszentrum Jülich discovered that this stellar flyby may have pushed the edges of our solar system farther than previously known. Pfalzner pointed out that numerous objects beyond Neptune exhibit unusual, eccentric …

Chinese smartphone giant Huawei has launched the world’s first triple-fold smartphone, the Mate XT, on Tuesday. This innovative device, which folds in three ways similar to an accordion, was unveiled just hours after Apple introduced its iPhone 16 series. Both phones are set to be available from September 20, as per a report by China Global Television Network (CGTN). Huawei’s …

Lake Erie in North America has been overtaken by toxin-producing algae, as shown in photos taken from space. The lake has turned a bright green due to algae blooms spreading across its surface, and the public has been advised to avoid the water. On August 13, the blue-green algae covered approximately 320 square miles of the lake, but by August …

NASA is closely monitoring a large asteroid named 2024 ON as it hurtles towards Earth at a high speed, set to make a close flyby on September 15. Measuring about 720 feet in diameter, the asteroid is larger than two cricket fields. Although it will pass by Earth at a safe distance of approximately 620,000 miles—2.6 times the distance between …