The many expressions of spirituality Secular and atheist churches Digital spirituality According to a recent Pew Center report, American Christianity remains in a nearly three-decade decline. Responding as “none” or “unaffiliated” on religious surveys, people increasingly identify as humanists, atheists, agnostics, or simply spiritual. If current trends continue, by ...
The following is an excerpt adapted from Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way, written by Kieran Setiya and published by Riverhead Books. For more than seventy years, we’ve been warned about a looming epidemic of loneliness, from David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd in 1950 to The ...
Plunge back into the exotic planet of Pandora as the threat of war looms again.
The remarkable drama of NASA's never-say-die Opportunity rover finally hits the big screen.
Water is a fascinating substance. It readily manifests on Earth in the three most common states of matter: solid (ice), liquid (water), and gas (water vapor). The physicists and chemists who study the various states of matter plot them on a chart known as a phase diagram. A generic ...
Astronaut Starry Sky Star Projector review Astronaut Starry Sky Star Projector: Design Astronaut Starry Sky Star Projector: Performance Astronaut Starry Sky Projector: Functionality Should I buy the Astronaut Starry Sky Star Projector? If the Astronaut Starry Sky Star Projector isn’t for you Star projectors are a quick and easy ...
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U.S. Space Command confirmed the uneventful reentry on Friday (Nov. 4).
The November 8th total lunar eclipse spans the Pacific and is the last until 2025. Set your alarms: if skies cooperate, next Tuesday morning’s lunar eclipse on November 8th is worth getting up for and braving the cold. Not only is this one of the top astronomical events for ...
For the second time in 2022, stargazers will have the opportunity to view a total lunar eclipse on Nov. 8. At least a portion of the phenomenon will be visible throughout eastern Asia, Australia, the Pacific, and North America. The previous total lunar eclipse happened in May. According to ...
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has been selected by Inmarsat Government as partner to develop and manufacture an L-band radio in support of NASA’s Communications Services Project (CSP). CSP seeks to accelerate the development of commercial near-Earth communications services by partnering with satellite communications (SATCOM) providers. Rocket Lab ...
From the window of a NASA Gulfstream III research aircraft, Alaska looks like a pristine wilderness untouched by humans. The land is covered in lush, green vegetation and dotted with bright blue lakes. Snow-capped mountains reach toward the sky, and chocolate milk-colored rivers snake across the landscape. The obvious ...
For decades, satellites have been instrumental in monitoring our changing climate and improving our understanding of the processes that drive it. But to achieve our climate goals and make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, we need ideas that take the next step and begin to use space ...
Critical elements of a new instrument attached to the International Space Station (ISS) this summer, and designed to examine the chemical composition of atmospheric mineral dust, is powered by hardware from high-performance electronics company Alpha Data. Data gathered by the NASA instrument – called the Earth Surface Mineral Dust ...
When a landslide buried part of an Islamic shrine in Iraq this summer, killing eight pilgrims, sorrow quickly turned to anger because the site was run without oversight from state or religious authorities. The deadly disaster struck in August near Karbala when tonnes of soggy earth and rock collapsed ...
An international team of scientists, including researchers at the University of Adelaide, have gathered new evidence about the energetic core of an active galaxy millions of lights years away by detecting neutrino particles emitted by it. The scientists have found that NGC 1068, also known as Messier 77, in ...
Rivada Space Networks GmbH, a European network company launching a unique connectivity constellation for Government and Enterprise communications, has issued its request for proposals for 600 low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, having released the RFP for the associated heavy-lift launch services two weeks ago. The company anticipates selecting a ...
China’s space industry achieved a historic new feat on Thursday as the in-orbit assembly of the country’s Tiangong space station’s T-shape configuration was completed. In a crucial, hourlong repositioning maneuver that was completed at 9:32 am Beijing time on Thursday, the Mengtian lab module was moved from one port ...
South Korea’s military scrambled stealth jets on Friday after detecting the mobilisation of 180 North Korean warplanes, Seoul said as it conducted large-scale joint air drills with the United States which have infuriated Pyongyang. North Korea has launched a record-breaking blitz of missile launches this week, including a failed ...
Traditionally neutral Switzerland on Thursday banned Germany from sending to Ukraine any Swiss-made munitions used by anti-aircraft guns Berlin wants to dispatch to the war-torn country. “There is no reason to reply favourably to the German request to transmit Swiss military equipment to Ukraine,” Economic Affairs Minister Guy Parmelin ...
Iran’s plans to supply Russia with weapons including drones and ballistic missiles in its war against Ukraine are “unacceptable”, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. Kyiv and its Western allies accuse Iran of supplying drones to Russia. “We see Iran offering drones and considering ballistic missile deliveries ...
North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile is “illegal and destabilizing,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday. Austin also branded the North’s actions “irresponsible and reckless” during a joint news conference at the Pentagon alongside his South Korean counterpart Lee Jong-sup. South Korea’s military said earlier that ...
US personnel are inspecting stocks of American-supplied military equipment in Ukraine as part of efforts to keep track of gear provided to Kyiv’s forces, the Pentagon said Thursday. The United States has committed nearly $18 billion in military assistance to Ukraine since Russian forces invaded the country in February, ...
Chinese astronauts onboard the nation’s Tiangong space station entered the Mengtian lab module on Thursday afternoon, several hours after the completion of the station’s in-orbit assembly. Crew members of the Shenzhou XIV mission – mission commander Senior Colonel Chen Dong, Senior Colonel Liu Yang and Senior Colonel Cai Xuzhe ...
North Korea fired an artillery barrage into a maritime “buffer zone” overnight, Seoul’s military said Friday, after a record-breaking blitz of launches that included a failed intercontinental ballistic missile test. Seoul and Washington, which have warned Pyongyang’s recent launches could culminate in a nuclear test, extended their largest-ever joint ...
Microsoft will give Ukraine an additional $100 million of technology support to strengthen a “digital alliance” protecting the country, the firm’s vice chairman said on Thursday. Brad Smith said Ukraine would be able to use Microsoft’s cloud services and data centres across Europe during the entire 2023. He told ...
Russia and Ukraine on Thursday announced they had exchanged 107 servicemen each in the latest prisoner swap. “Today we are returning 107 of our fighters from Ukrainian dungeons,” pro-Moscow leader Denis Pushilin said on Telegram, adding that 65 of those were from eastern Ukraine’s separatist territories. “We will give ...
A new short volume by veteran science writer George Musser covers the concept of emergence in two domains of physics: the physics of materials (known as condensed matter) and the physics of space and time (known as quantum gravity). Both areas have gone through a mini-revolution over the past ...
SpiderOak, the leader in complete cybersecurity solutions for next generation space systems, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to deliver the company’s OrbitSecure zero-trust protocol on-orbit. The project will demonstrate end-to-end cybersecurity for the Department of Defense’s future Hybrid Space Architecture, an initiative ...
Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its close proximity to Earth, a mere 1600 light-years away, offers an intriguing target of ...
