Month: May 2023

SpaceX is counting down to launch the second all-private mission to the International Space Station today (May 21) and if you’re hoping to follow it online, you’re going to need to know when it actually lifts off.  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch four astronauts on the Axiom Space Ax-2 mission to the space station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The 10-day mission is commanded by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, with paying customer John Shoffner as pilot and Saudia Arabia’s first two astronauts ,…

The Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park sits in the Yellowstone Caldera, which formed 631,000 years ago (Image credit: Holger Leue/Getty Images) The last super-eruption at Yellowstone volcano, which occurred 631,000 years ago, was not one huge explosion. Instead, new research suggests it was a series of eruptions or multiple vents spewing volcanic material in rapid succession.  According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Yellowstone Volcano Observatory 2022 Annual Report, published May 4, fieldwork over the past year has provided new geological evidence that “the formation of Yellowstone Caldera…

Satellite image of Earth showing areas of the Pacific ocean that are warmer and higher – a sign of El Nino (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA has identified early signs of El Niño from space, after one of its satellites spotted warm water in the Pacific Ocean moving eastward toward the west coast of South America in March and April.  Data from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, which monitors sea levels, showed Kelvin waves moving across the Pacific. These long ocean waves are just 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10…

SpaceX’s next private spaceflight will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday (May 21) and you can watch the mission live online in a series of free webcasts.  The Ax-2 mission is the second all-private flight to the station by SpaceX for the company Axiom Space and will launch from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Liftoff is scheduled for 5:37 p.m. EDT (2137 GMT) on Sunday. You can follow it live with our Ax-2 mission updates page. The Ax-2 mission is…

In February, wildfires fueled by severe drought consumed forests, grasslands and wetlands in northeastern Argentina, burning an estimated 40% of the Ibera National Park. (Image credit: Joaquin Meabe/Getty Images) Unprecedented global temperature rises will likely see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.6 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold breached at some point in the next five years, a United Nations (U.N.) report predicts. The U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) gave the stark warning in its latest annual assessment. According to the WMO, there is a 66% chance that annual mean global surface…

Recent headlines warn about the perils of artificial intelligence, even as we venture further into a reliance on AI. So there’s probably better time to drop a first trailer for director Gareth Edwards‘ dystopian epic, “The Creator.” 20th Century Studios, New Regency, and Entertainment One have just unleashed a terrifying new preview for Edwards’ topical sci-fi thriller, “The Creator,” which infiltrates theaters on September 29, 2023 starring “Tenet’s” John David Washington, “Eternal’s” Gemma Chan, “Inception’s” Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, and Allison Janney. Here’s the official synopsis: Amid…