Al Khaleej stuns Al Hilal with 3-2 victory, ending 57-match unbeaten run    Turki Al-Sheikh crowned "Most Influential Personality in the Last Decade" at MENA Effie Awards 2024    Saudi Arabia arrests 19,696 illegals in a week    SFDA move to impose travel ban on workers of food outlets in the event of food poisoning    GACA: 1029 complaints recorded against airlines, with least complaints in Riyadh and Buraidah airports during October    CMA plans to allow former expatriates in Saudi and other Gulf states to invest in TASI    11 killed, 23 injured in Israeli airstrike on Beirut    Trump picks billionaire Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary    WHO: Mpox remains an international public health emergency    2 Pakistanis arrested for promoting methamphetamine    Move to ban on establishing zoos in residential neighborhoods    Moody's upgrades Saudi Arabia's credit rating to Aa3 with stable outlook    Al Okhdood halts Al Shabab's winning streak with a 1-1 draw in Saudi Pro League    Mahrez leads Al Ahli to victory over Al Fayha in Saudi Pro League    Saudi musical marvels takes center stage in Tokyo's iconic opera hall    Saudi Arabia and Japan to collaborate on training Saudi students in Manga comics Saudi Minister of Culture discusses cultural collaboration during Tokyo visit    Al Khaleej qualifies for Asian Men's Club League Handball Championship final    Katy Perry v Katie Perry: Singer wins right to use name in Australia    Sitting too much linked to heart disease –– even if you work out    Denmark's Victoria Kjær Theilvig wins Miss Universe 2024    Order vs. Morality: Lessons from New York's 1977 Blackout    India puts blockbuster Pakistani film on hold    The Vikings and the Islamic world    Filipino pilgrim's incredible evolution from an enemy of Islam to its staunch advocate    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    

Articles of the author CAPE CANAVERAL
Peregrine lander: Technical hitch threatens US Moon mission
The private US Moon mission launched on Monday has run into technical problems. The Astrobotic company behind the project says its Peregrine spacecraft has experienced an "anomaly" that has stopped it from pointing its solar panels stably at the (...)

08 - 01 - 2024
US Vulcan rocket launches on Moon mission with humans remains on board
A towering new rocket has taken flight, carrying what could be the first commercial lander to touch down on the moon — and the first lunar landing mission to launch from the United States since 1972. The Vulcan Centaur rocket, a never-before-flown (...)

08 - 01 - 2024
SpaceX, NASA launch four astronauts from four countries
Four astronauts — representing four nations and space agencies across the globe — launched aboard a SpaceX rocket toward the International Space Station, kicking off a mission expected to last more than six months. The crew is riding aboard the (...)

26 - 08 - 2023
Two supermoons in August mean double the stargazing fun
The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons culminating in a rare blue moon, reports AP. Catch the first show Tuesday evening as the full moon rises in the southeast, appearing slightly brighter and bigger than normal. (...)

29 - 07 - 2023
Mission accomplished: Saudi astronauts return to earth safely
Saudi astronauts Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali Al-Qarni and fellow travelers returned to Earth early Wednesday morning after a ten-day trip to the International Space Station. The SpaceX capsule carrying the four parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, just (...)

31 - 05 - 2023
UAE launches the first Arab-built moon rover
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched on Sunday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying into space the first ever Arab-built lunar spacecraft. The Rashid Rover was built by Dubai's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), in (...)

11 - 12 - 2022
Webb Space Telescope spots early galaxies hidden from Hubble
ASA's Webb Space Telescope is finding bright, early galaxies that until now were hidden from view, including one that may have formed a mere 350 million years after the cosmic-creating Big Bang. Astronomers said Thursday that if the results are (...)

18 - 11 - 2022
NASA's Artemis 1 rocket launch kicks off long-awaited journey to the moon
NASA's new moon rocket blasted off on its test flight with three dummies aboard early on Wednesday, bringing the United States a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years. If all goes well during (...)

16 - 11 - 2022
NASA probe Lucy blasts off to Jupiter
NASA probe Lucy blasted off on Saturday on a mission to investigate Jupiter's asteroids. Launched with the help of an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Lucy began a 12-year mission that will take it a total of around 6.5 billion (...)

16 - 10 - 2021
US, Japan, France astronauts arrive at ISS in SpaceX ship
The commercially developed SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon ship carrying a group of four astronauts from the United States, Japan and France successfully docked with the International Space Station on Saturday following its liftoff from NASA's space center a (...)

25 - 04 - 2021
Space station marking 20 years of people living in orbit
The International Space Station was a cramped, humid, puny three rooms when the first crew moved in. Twenty years and 241 visitors later, the complex has a lookout tower, three toilets, six sleeping compartments and 12 rooms, depending on how you (...)

31 - 10 - 2020
Space station to mark 20 years of people living in orbit
The International Space Station was a cramped, humid, puny three rooms when the first crew moved in. Twenty years and 241 visitors later, the complex has a lookout tower, three toilets, six sleeping compartments and 12 rooms, depending on how you (...)

31 - 10 - 2020
With Perseverance and a little MOXIE, MIT is going to Mars
NASA's Mars 2020 mission took a giant leap on Thursday (July 30) with a successful launch from the Kennedy Space Center. Onboard is the Perseverance Rover — including the MOXIE instrument developed by MIT researchers — and Ingenuity helicopter, (...)

01 - 08 - 2020
NASA's Ingenuity attempts its first test flight on Mars
The Mars 2020 Mission, Perseverance Rover, is now at its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, with the launch planned for Thursday (July 30, at 7:50 a.m. EDT). The Mars 2020 spacecraft with its Perseverance Rover will launch on an Atlas (...)

30 - 07 - 2020
Astronauts hailed as heroes 50 years after historic moon landing
Capping a week of celebrations over the historic Apollo 11 mission, Vice President Mike Pence joined astronaut Buzz Aldrin on Saturday at the launch pad in Florida that sent the moonwalker and his two crew mates to space for humankind's first steps (...)

21 - 07 - 2019
Elon Musk's SpaceX capsule splashes down off Florida coast
An unmanned capsule from Elon Musk's SpaceX splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday morning after a short-term stay on the International Space Station, capping the first orbital test mission in NASA's long-delayed quest to resume human space (...)

08 - 03 - 2019
Total solar eclipse 1st in 99 years to sweep width of US
This August, the U.S. will experience its first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years. Total solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, often in the middle of nowhere like the South Pacific or Antarctic. What makes this one so special (...)

04 - 07 - 2017
SpaceX to send first paying tourists around moon next year
SpaceX plans to launch two paying passengers on a tourist trip around the moon next year using a spaceship under development for NASA astronauts and a heavy-lift rocket yet to be flown, the launch company announced on Monday. The launch of the first (...)

28 - 02 - 2017
SpaceX launches rocket from historic NASA pad in Florida
A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off on Sunday from a Florida launch pad once used to send NASA astronauts to the moon, a step forward for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and his company's goal of ferrying astronauts to the International Space (...)

19 - 02 - 2017
SpaceX rocket poised for second launch try from historic NASA pad
Countdown clocks were ticking down on Sunday for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from a historic launchpad leased from NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Reuters reported. Blastoff of Space Exploration Technology Corp's Falcon 9 (...)

19 - 02 - 2017
Binge Eater: Black hole taking over decade to devour star
Scientists have detected a black hole that's taken a record-breaking decade to devour a star â€" and it's still chewing away, according to AP. The food fest is happening in a small galaxy 1.8 billion light-years from Earth. University of New (...)

06 - 02 - 2017
Bad cable delays comeback rocket launch from Virginia
A bad cable has delayed a rocket launch from Virginia by a NASA shipper eager to make a strong comeback. Orbital ATK was poised to fly its Antares rocket Sunday night with a load of supplies for the International Space Station, after being grounded (...)

16 - 10 - 2016
Hurricane Matthew spares Florida
Hurricane Matthew scraped Florida's Atlantic coast early Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to a half-million people but sparing some of the most heavily populated stretches of shoreline the catastrophic blow many had (...)

07 - 10 - 2016
Hurricane Matthew menaces Florida
Hurricane Matthew steamed toward heavily populated Florida with terrifying winds of 140 mph Thursday, and 2 million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland, leaving more than 100 dead in its wake across the Caribbean. It was the most (...)

06 - 10 - 2016
SpaceX Dragon capsule delivers new station docking port
SpaceX finally made good on its delivery of a space station docking port Wednesday morning, AP reported. A Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station, bearing more than 2 tons of supplies. The shipment includes a docking port needed (...)

20 - 07 - 2016
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