A California startup’s first in-space manufacturing effort is in the books. The capsule from Varda Space Industries‘ W-1 mission landed in northern Utah this afternoon (Feb. 21), bringing down to Earth crystals of an antiviral drug that were grown in orbit. The success makes Varda just the third company to recover an intact spacecraft from […]
LONDON — British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps and other top officials were on board a Royal Navy nuclear submarine when the test-firing of a Trident II 5 nuclear missile failed last month. The misfire saw the missile crash back into the sea close to the submarine HMS Vanguard which was undertaking demonstration and shakedown operations […]
A man is dead after a shooting aboard a King County Metro bus in Kent Friday afternoon. At about 1 p.m., officers with the Kent Police Department responded to a 911 report of a shooting on a bus near the 200 block of Central Avenue South near Kent Station. When officers arrived, they found a […]
A miniature surgical robot aboard the International Space Station was tested in orbit for the first time, performing simulated operations in space while remotely controlled by surgeons back on Earth. The robot, dubbed spaceMIRA (short for Miniaturized In Vivo Robotic Assistant), was developed by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The experiments were carried out […]
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Around 16,000 livestock remained in limbo aboard an export ship at an Australian port on Friday, having set sail for Israel exactly four weeks ago only to abandon a passage through the Red Sea and be ordered home by the Australian government. Biosecurity rules mean the animals – roughly 14,000 sheep and […]
Kansas City Royals minor-league infielder Darnel Collins is facing federal charges after an incident aboard a Delta Airlines flight. Collins, 19, faces one count of interference with a flight crew and one count of assault by striking, beating and wounding aboard an aircraft. On Thursday, Collins was scheduled to appear at the United States District […]
Investigators searching the site where a Russian military transport plane crashed in a border region near Ukraine have reportedly found the plane’s flight recorders, a day after Moscow accused Kyiv of shooting down the aircraft and Ukraine’s president demanded an international investigation. The Il-76 fell from the sky and crashed in a huge ball of […]
Investigators searching the site where a Russian military transport plane crashed in a border region near Ukraine reportedly have found the plane’s flight recorders, a day after Moscow accused Kyiv of shooting down the aircraft and Ukraine’s president demanded an international investigation. The Il-76 fell from the sky and crashed in a huge ball of […]
Investigators searching the site where a Russian military transport plane crashed in a border region near Ukraine have reportedly found the plane’s flight recorders, a day after Moscow accused Kyiv of shooting down the aircraft and Ukraine’s president demanded an international investigation. The Il-76 fell from the sky and crashed in a huge ball of […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A SpaceX rocket is set to take off for the International Space Station on another trailblazing mission operated entirely by the private sector. On board will be a group of European astronauts, including the first […]
A hot air balloon plunged to the ground, killing four riders and critically injuring a fifth, after eight skydivers jumped out, Arizona officials reported. The crash took place at 7:50 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 14, in the desert near Eloy, police said in a news release. Emergency crews found four people dead and one critically injured. […]
Terror in the skies. A Vancouver, Washington, woman shares the harrowing moments after that airplane blowout over Portland. Vicki Kreps and her two young grandchildren were among the 171 passengers on board Alaska Air Flight 1282 last Friday when a door plug blew off mid-flight. She was remarkably calm herself. She says that is her […]