UH-60 Black Hawk & CH-47 Chinook helicopters conducts intense operations
25th Infantry Division Lightning Academy cadre and personnel conduct waterborne operations from UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-47 Chinook helicopters assigned to the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, off…
Watch NASA’s DART spacecraft hit ‘bullseye’ by smashing into an asteroid
DART’s final moments before it crashed into Dimorphos’s surface. (Image credit: John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) NASA’s asteroid smashing spacecraft completed its spectacular doomed attack on a…
How did the moon form? A supercomputer may have just found the answer
The moon could have formed immediately after a cataclysmic impact that tore off a chunk of Earth and hurled it into space, a new study has suggested….
1 million-mile-long plasma plume shoots out of the sun in stunning photo
An astrophotographer has captured a hauntingly beautiful image of a massive plume of plasma shooting out of the sun. The fiery filament, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME),…
V-22 Osprey: the U.S. military’s biggest mistake?
Of all the unique, advanced airframes in the US military’s expansive inventory, the V-22 Osprey may be the most easily identifiable. Using tilt-rotors – rotors that can pivot between…
How many bombers does the U.S. air force have?
In 1939, the United States military had fewer than 3,000 aircraft in service – yet, by the end of the Second World War in September 1945, America had…
Monstrously huge black hole devours an Earth-size chunk of matter every second
Astronomers have detected the brightest and fastest-growing black hole to have existed in the last 9 billion years. The enormous cosmic entity is 3 billion times more…
Surprise solar storm with ‘disruptive potential’ slams into Earth
Scientists were recently left scratching their heads after a “potentially disruptive” solar storm smashed into Earth without warning. The surprise solar storm hit Earth just before midnight UTC June…
Two skyscraper-size asteroids are barreling toward Earth
Two skyscraper-size asteroids are zooming toward Earth this weekend, with one making its closest approach on Friday (July 29) and the second whizzing by on Saturday (July…
Russia’s Tu-95 Bomber: A threat to Ukraine and Alaska?
If Russia’s air force believes a Tu-95 Bear bomber is willing to threaten Alaska, why wouldn’t it be a difference-maker in the war in Ukraine? The Tu-95 was in…