Ten months after launch, NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft neared a planned impact with its target on Monday in a test of the world’s first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a doomsday collision with Earth. The cube-shaped “impactor” vehicle, roughly the size of a vending machine with two rectangular solar arrays, was on course to fly into…
A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 9.6 million kilometers away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the space rock at 22,500 kph. Scientists expected the impact to carve out…
Oil prices fell for a second day on Monday on fears of lower fuel demand from an expected global recession sparked by rising worldwide interest rates and as a surging U.S. dollar limits the ability of non-dollar consumers to purchase crude, Trend reports with reference to Reuters. Brent crude futures for November settlement slipped 54 cents, or 0.63%,…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 26. The official exchange rate of the US dollar and euro against Azerbaijani manat as of September 26, 2022 is set at 1.7 and 1.6368 manat, respectively, Trend reports via the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA). According to CBA, the manat rate to other currencies on September 26 is as follows: Currencies Official exchange rate…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 26. The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced an official rate of foreign currencies on September 26, Trend reports referring to CBI. According to the currency exchange rate of the Central Bank of Iran, 17 currencies increased and 19 have decreased in price, compared to September 24. According to CBI, $1 equals 42,000 Iranian rials…
Rihanna will take center stage at February’s Super Bowl halftime show. The singer, who declined to perform in the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show out of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, will headline the 2023 Super Bowl, the NFL announced Sunday along with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and Apple Music. Rihanna posted an image on Instagram of…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is scheduled to spend the next few days with lawyers for Twitter, answering questions ahead of an October trial that will determine whether he must carry through with his $44 billion agreement to acquire the social platform after attempting to back out of the deal. The deposition, planned for Monday, Tuesday…
