The term Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAP, is preferred to Unidentified Flying Objects, UFO, because they may be optical illusions like of the Sun and the sky or camera tricks, after all. In that case, they may not all be objects Read More …
What role can all the satellites launched for Nigeria play in efforts to prevent terrorism in the country and rescue the abducted schoolgirls and others still in captivity? In April, 2014, there was the kidnap of 276 schoolgirls from Government Read More …
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr Matthew Olumide Adepoju as Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA. He replaces Dr Halilu Shaba, who was appointed in 2021 by President Muhammadu Buhari. Dr Read More …
The Columbia shuttle disaster of 1 February, 2003, when seven NASA astronauts died 200,000 feet from home as their spacecraft disintegrated on re-entering the Earth. Also remembered are the seven crew of the Challenger space shuttle who died seconds after Read More …
Researchers in the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge University have found, what is believed to be, the strongest evidence of life outside Earth and our Solar System. The evidence of life was found in the planet called K2-18b, which has Read More …
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ commercial space tourism company, had its 11th human flight to the edge of space with an all-female crew on 14 April, 2025. The crew of six had pop star Katy Perry, journalist Lauren Sanchez, former NASA Read More …
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543), a Polish Church cannon, in 1514 was the first to write and circulate discreetly, the arguments that the Earth is round, the Sun stationary and that all the planets rotate round the Sun. It was Read More …
The journey to discover what we now know – that the Earth is round and moves – was not an easy one. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, in his book, On the Heavens, in 340 B.C. wrote that the Earth is round, Read More …
Scientists in UK Atomic Energy Authority and University of Bristol have created the world’s first battery which can last thousands of years before running out of energy. They used Carbon 14 – the radioactive isotope of Carbon – with a Read More …
NASA has postponed Artemis 2 crewed mission around the Moon from September, 2025, to not earlier than April, 2026. Crewed Moon landing in Artemis 3 is also postponed from 2026 to mid-2027. NASA announced on 5 December, 2024, that safety Read More …
