Watch NASA batter Mars sample return shields with hyper velocity bullets
With a daring plan to collect rock and soil from the surface of Mars in the pipeline, NASA engineers are starting to move the necessary pieces into…
The first time, the stars collide observed with the naked eyes
Aaron Zimmerman was visiting his brother in Tucson, Arizona, on August 17, when, at 7 a.m., his phone started pinging. Zimmerman, a researcher at the Canadian Institute…
This is a replacement for The Apache-64
Apache was deservedly named the most commonly used helicopter in the world. Very few of its “iron brothers” could compete with the military glory of this formidable…
Stealth A-10 Warthog? Forget about it
A few weeks ago, this reporter happened to be outside on a warm and sunny early autumn day – when an unmistakable sound quickly grew louder. Immediately…
Astronomers just found water on the sunlit Moon which is a sign of the life
Casey Honniball, a Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, tells Popular Mechanics via email. Since 2009, when a NASA instrument aboard India’s Chandrayaan lunar…
A huge blow has been dealt to one of Stephen Hawking’s most well-known theories on black holes
One of Stephen Hawking’s most famous hypotheses on dark matter — that this mysterious and invisible element is made up of primordial black holes — was recently…
CO2 has just been discovered on an exoplanet by NASA’s James Webb telescope
Could there be life on faraway planets? A new discovery by NASA has taken researchers one step closer to finding out. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has…
Thailand buys S-100 UAV for ISR – 220 km/h speed, Diamond engine
BANGKOK, ($1=33.96 Thai BahtS) — The Thai naval force has ordered further Camcopter S-100 unmanned mini-helicopters from the Austrian company Schiebel, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, citing Defense24. Photo credit:…
Helicopters the most feared by submarines
Anti-Submarine Helicopters use specially-designed sensors and weapon systems to singlehandedly find, track, and even destroy submarines. One of the biggest fears of submarines are specially designed military helicopters developed…
Extreme Miyake radiation events captured in tree rings stump scientists
The most intense solar storm in recorded history, known as the Carrington event, damaged nascent power and communication networks in the Victorian era. But Earth has been hit by…