Tom Cruise touched down in Cannes on Wednesday to launch “Top Gun: Maverick”, making his first appearance in three decades at the world’s premier film festival and cementing his status as a champion of the big screen. Cannes waited 30 years for Tom Cruise to return – so a 12-hour wait in the Riviera’s scorching sun was […]
Ukraine says it has foiled an attempt by Russian forces to cross a key river in the east, costing Moscow a sizable number of troops and important armored equipment in another setback for the Kremlin in its invasion of Ukraine as Germany urged President Vladimir Putin to agree to a cease-fire as soon as possible. […]
Russian troops have begun to storm the Azovstal steelworks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol even though hundreds of civilians are said to be holed up inside along with Ukrainian soldiers, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced 300 million pounds ($ 376 million) worth of extra military aid for Ukraine in a video […]
The heavens wheel above us, but at least we can rely on the North Star, aka Polaris, to provide eternal stability, right? Afraid not, says Abigail Beall Space 20 April 2022 By Abigail Beall Igordabari/Alamy ONE of the most iconic stars in the northern hemisphere is Polaris, also known as the North Star. If you […]
Millions of stars that can grow up to 620 million miles in diameter, known as ‘red giants,’ exist in our galaxy, but it has been speculated for a while that there are some that are possibly much smaller. Now a team of astronomers at the University of Sydney have discovered several in this category and […]
Polar Star, the United States sole heavy icebreaker recently returned home after a 147-day Antarctic… The Maritime Executive: Maritime News | Marine News
Issued on: 07/04/2022 – 20:20 Austin (AFP) – Marc Marquez returns to the MotoGP world championship this weekend at the Grand Prix of the Americas at Austin, a race he has won seven times in eight editions. He missed the last round in Argentina due to double vision suffered in a high-side crash in Indonesia […]
One of the key aspects of galactic evolution is star production. On a basic level, stars form within a galaxy’s gas and dust all the time, and where they form can help determine a galaxy’s shape and size. But there seems to be a sweet point when star production in a galaxy is particularly strong. […]
Missions to Mars are expensive, even orbiters. They’re there to do science, not take pretty pictures. But sometimes Mars’ beauty is captured inadvertently, usually with some science mixed in. That’s the case with this picture of star dunes captured by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. In most regions on Mars, winds blow […]
Issued on: 23/03/2022 – 11:26 A man suspected of shooting dead former star Argentine rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu in Paris at the weekend was arrested in Hungary overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, French prosecutors said. The 27-year-old man, a former soldier and member of the far-right GUD movement, is believed to have fired the […]