Mars 2020, the spaceship carrying NASA’s new rover Perseverance to the Red Planet, is experiencing technical difficulties and is running on essential systems only, the agency said Thursday. “Data indicate the spacecraft had entered a state known as safe mode, likely because a part of the spacecraft was a little colder than expected while Mars
Month: July 2020
Dozens of new documents have been unsealed relating to Ghislaine Maxwell’s dealings with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. It comes as she prepares to defend herself against accusations that she aided the financier’s sexual abuse of girls. Among the documents released is a series of email exchanges between Maxwell and Epstein said to date from January 2015
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he is taking antibiotics for an infection that left him feeling weak – having spent weeks in isolation after catching coronavirus. He appeared during a live broadcast and chuckled as he told viewers that he had “mould” in his lungs. The leader said: “I just did a blood test. I
Three of tonight’s BAFTAs nominees have urged the government to provide further funding for the arts sector during the coronavirus crisis. Best Female Comedy Performance nominees Sian Clifford, Gbemisola Ikumelo, and Sarah Kendall all called for further action from the UK government, ahead of tonight’s awards. When asked by Sky News at a Q&A about
Universal Credit is failing millions of people and driving the most vulnerable deeper into poverty, according to a new report. A House of Lords committee – including former Tory ministers – today calls for urgent reforms to make the benefit system “fit for purpose”, saying it is particularly harmful to women, disabled people and the
Jul 30, 2020 The remaining rounds of the Six Nations Championship will be played on Oct. 24 and 31 after World Rugby approved dates for the temporary 2020 COVID-19 calendar on Thursday. The World Rugby Council approved an adjustment to allow the release of players for new international windows after the pandemic forced the sport’s
Some of America’s biggest tech companies have defied the coronavirus pandemic to post better-than-expected financial results. Amazon posted the biggest profit in its 26-year history, while Facebook, Apple and Alphabet all beat estimates. Many brick-and-mortar retailers have struggled during the coronavirus pandemic, with most forced to shut down under rules intended to limit the spread
US civil rights hero John Lewis has been laid to rest, with three former presidents paying tribute to a man hailed as a “true American patriot”. Mr Lewis, a long-time member of the House of Representatives, died earlier this month at the age of 80. He had announced in December that he had been diagnosed
Separate households are banned from meeting indoors from today in Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire after a rise in coronavirus cases. The news comes after the UK saw its highest daily total of COVID-19 cases for more than a month. Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the virus was “bubbling up” in
COVID-19 has infected millions around the world since emerging in China late last year, claiming the lives of more than 660,000 people and changing our way of life for some time to come. Now, fears of a second wave of coronavirus are growing in many nations. Here, Sky News’ foreign correspondents across Asia, the US,
On this edition of the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we discuss NASA’s launch of the Perseverance rover – the first leg of returning rock samples to Earth with the hope of finding microbial life and paving the way for humans to go to the planet. We look at why we go to
Donald Trump has suggested a delay to November’s presidential election, claiming it will be the “most inaccurate and fraudulent in history”. However, election dates are set by the US Congress and are enshrined in federal law – meaning they would require an act of Congress to change. There are also no constitutional provisions for a
NASA’s next-generation Mars rover Perseverance blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Thursday atop an Atlas 5 rocket on a $2.4 billion (roughly Rs. 17,974 crores) mission to search for traces of potential past life on Earth’s planetary neighbor. The next-generation robotic rover – a car-sized six-wheeled scientific vehicle – also is scheduled to deploy
NASA has successfully launched its new Perseverance rover to Mars, beginning a mission to search for signs of alien life on the planet. The Mars 2020 mission launched on the back of an Atlas V rocket, the most powerful currently in use by humanity, which took its payload to an altitude of greater than 250
Coronavirus is “bubbling up” in up to 30 areas across the UK, Boris Johnson has warned. The prime minister said levels of COVID-19 are “going down” in Leicester – the first city subject to a local lockdown – but Britons have to be wary of a “really damaging second wave”. “It’s absolutely vital as a
US tech firm International Business Machines on Thursday launched a research partnership with Japanese industry to accelerate advances in quantum computing, deepening ties between the two countries in an emerging and sensitive field. Members of the new group, which includes Toshiba and Hitachi, will gain cloud-based access to IBM’s US quantum computers. The group will
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