NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth on April 19 | Katy Perry just became the 1st pop star to sing in space | Aisha Bowe becomes 1st Bahamian woman to reach space
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NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday night (April 19), if all goes to plan.
The journey home for Pettit, Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner will begin Saturday at 5:57 p.m. EDT (2157 GMT), when their Russian Soyuz spacecraft undocks from the ISS' Rassvet module. The trio will touch down on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, just a few hours later, around 9:20 p.m. EDT (0120 GMT and 6:20 a.m. local Kazakh time on April 20). NASA will webcast the homecoming live, and Space.com will carry the agency's feed if it's made available.
Katy Perry isn't the first performer with space ambitions. In fact, megastars Lance Bass, Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber all hoped to be first at one time or another in the last decade. Here's a look at those efforts and our take on why they fizzled.
In high school, Aisha Bowe's guidance counselor told her she wasn't suited for a career in aerospace engineering, and that she should try cosmetology instead. On Monday (April 14), Bowe became the first Bahamian woman to fly to space.
A new model of the cosmos does away with the universe's two most troubling and mysterious elements, dark energy and dark matter, collectively referred to as the dark universe. Here's the idea. The new concept replaces the dark universe with a multitude of step-like bursts called "transient temporal singularities" that erupt throughout the entire cosmos.
A machine-learning algorithm trained on synthetic planetary systems has been let loose - and in the process has identified nearly four dozen real stars that have a high probability of hosting a rocky planet in their habitable zone.
With rivers, lakes and even seas made of liquid methane and ethane, plus a hidden underground ocean of water, Saturn's moon Titan has long fascinated scientists as a place where alien life might exist.
After skipping 2024, Star Wars Celebration is back on April 18-20 with a long-awaited return to Japan. This means that plenty of Star Wars news is coming our way soon, including updates on upcoming Star Wars movies and TV shows, at least one video game reveal, book and comic book publishing conversations, and much more.
