According to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (World Air Sports Federation), individuals who fly above 100 kilometers (the Kármán line) are astronauts. According to United States criteria, that distance, however, is reduced to 80 km (50...
Do you believe in the existence of extraterrestrial beings? If you do, then you must be intrigued about their whereabouts and why we haven’t heard from them yet. It’s not just you; the question has troubled scientists and astrophysicists...
The aviation industry is one of the rapidly growing transportation sectors in an increasingly interconnected global economy. In 2023, Delta Air Lines was the most valuable airline brand (having a brand value of over $8.9 billion), followed by...
While most space-related research works are conducted by astronomers with ground-based telescopes, physical exploration is carried out by both human spaceflight and unmanned robotic space probes. The main purpose of space exploration is advancing...
The number of space launches continues to increase each year, with private companies contributing significantly to the rockets powering these missions. SpaceX, in particular, leads the global commercial space launch market, holding nearly 65% of all...
Black holes are one of the most fascinating objects found in the Universe. They are celestial bodies of extremely intense gravity from which nothing can escape – not a planet, not a moon, and not even light. Anything that crosses the event...
Space is full of strange and weird things, and we are still in the process of investigating them. Below is the list of the fascinating things in space that we have discovered so far. 23. 2022 GN1 A near-Earth asteroid possibly made of ice and...
Uranus was the first ever planet to be discovered with the help of a telescope. But do you know, before Sir William Herschel, it was not recognized as a planet? When ancient astronomers first observed Uranus, they mistook it for a star. The earliest...
Since space travel began, only three countries have sent people into space. The first person to travel there was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut, in 1961. He circled the Earth in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. Shortly after, the United States...
How did the Universe we know come into existence? And how do we explain its origin? These are some of the questions cosmologists and physicists have been trying to unravel for decades. Undoubtedly, every piece of evidence and data collected over the...
SpaceX vehicles are powered by dual-core x86 processors. In addition to the Linux operating system, they use LabVIEW, a graphical programming tool that runs on Windows. Programmers at SpaceX prefer using C++ (and sometimes Python). The vehicle code...
The largest type of black holes — called supermassive black holes — have masses of the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of the Sun. The mass of our Sun is 1.989 x 1030 kilograms, approximately 333,000 times...