Located in Delhi's capital city of India, the Ghazipur landfill continues to grow at an astonishing rate: within a year, it is expected to be higher than the Taj Mahal, one of the country's most iconic landmarks. At 65 meters high, the pile was once dubbed 'Mount Everest' by the inhabitants of the capital […]
WASHINGTON — Russia’s Proton rocket launched for the first time this year April 18 with a military communications satellite for the federation’s ministry of defense. Liftoff took place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:12 p.m. Eastern. Russian state corporation Roscosmos confirmed separation of the satellite from the rocket’s Breeze-M upper stage in its intended orbit approximately […]
Welcome to “On This Day … in Space!” where we peer back in our archives to find historic moments in spaceflight and astronomy. So enjoy a blast from the past with Space.com’s Hanneke Weitering to look back at what happened on this day in space! On April 28, 2001, the world’s first space tourist hitched […]
