Author: Daniel Tom

China’s Zhurong Rover, which landed on Mars in 2021, has found evidence of massive ancient floods on Mars. This provides further evidence that the red planet was very likely a habitable world in the distant past.     China continues to make significant progress in its space missions. The Asian country has been actively exploring…

A German-Egyptian mission at Al-Sheikh Hamad archaeological site in Tel Atribis in Sohag has unearthed a collection of 13,000 ostraca (clay vessel fragments) which bear engraved text in demotic, hieratic, Coptic, Greek and Arabic, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism said on Wednesday.       “This is a very important discovery because it…

Archaeologists excavating near London Bridge have discovered the largest Roman mosaic to have been unearthed in 50 years. Dating back to the Roman period when the city was called Londinium, it was in the shadow of the Shard skyscraper that archaeologists made what they are calling a “once-in-a-lifetime” discovery.     A report in The…

Welcome back to Daily Aviation for a feature on the U-2 aerial reconnaissance aircraft, which was built in the 1950s to climb above 60,000ft to avoid detection of competitors. Image Credit: U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy/U.S. Air National Guard, Derivative Work from Daily Aviation Clipart: U.S. Air Force With other existing technologies such as satellite,…

Australia will soon hand over 300 DefendTex D40 kamikaze drones to Ukraine. The DefendTex D40 is an aerial weapon system category in which the munition loiters (waits passively) around the target area for some time and attacks only once a target is located.     Kamikaze drone enable faster reaction times against concealed or hidden…

We have an insatiable thirst for energy. When we need to power anything that cannot be plugged in, we will have to rely on batteries, and the search for a better battery is underway in laboratories around the world. Consider that for a moment. Nuclear waste is radioactive waste produced by nuclear power plants that…

These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show a patch of water ice sitting on the floor of an unnamed crater near the Martian north pole.   The HRSC obtained these images during orbit 1343 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 metres per pixel. The…

The Fastest-Growing Black Hole Ever Seen In The Universe     A rapidly growing supermassive black hole 7,000 times brighter than the entire Milky Way galaxy has been discovered. Every second, an amount of matter equivalent to the mass of the Earth falls into this insatiable black hole.     As far as we know,…

This month, the planets will align for an event that hasn’t occurred in a century.     According to Sky and Telescope, five planets visible to the naked eye will line up in orbital sequence around the sun for a planet parade. From left to right, you can observe Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn…

The United States Send The Most Feared Drone In The World To Ukraine.       25 years ago, the fate of the MQ-9 Reaper was hanging in the balance. General Atomics developed it without a advance order and using their own cash. It was risky from a business perspective.     During the demonstration…