From :- BBC World News By :- Pallab Ghosh, science correspondent, and Dan Sales Edited by :- Amal Udawatta Reuters Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were ordered to shelter in an attached spacecraft after the structure suddenly started leaking more air. Five of the seven crew were directed to go into the docked SpaceX shuttle Dragon "Freedom" on Friday afternoon and were braced for a potential evacuation. Meanwhile, two remaining personnel - a pair of Russian cosmonauts - attempted to repair a part of the Russian segment of the ISS, where the leaks had started increasing on Monday. The repairs were paused and the crew ordered back onto the ISS by Nasa on Friday afternoon. Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot and Andrey Fedyaev, who arrived on the ISS in February, had been sheltering on the docked ship, along with another astronaut Chris Williams. They had been told to put on their spacesuits so they were ready to undock and return to Earth at short ...
From :- Space.Com By :- By Anthony Wood published yesterday Edited by :- Amal Udawatta A full moon photographed rising over Kars in Türkiye. (Image credit: Photo by Huseyin Demirci/Anadolu via Getty Images Prepare for a spectacular sight, as the second full moon of May meets the red star Antares this weekend Some lucky southern hemisphere stargazers will catch an incredible sight this weekend, as the "Blue Moon" slips in front of the red star Antares in the heart of the constellation Scorpius, briefly hiding its light mere hours before the second full moon of the month reaches peak illumination. A Blue Moon is the name given to the second full moon in a calendar month — an event that occurs roughly once every 2.5 years thanks to a quirk related to the length of the Gregorian calendar and the moon's orbital period. It's also the name given to the third full moon in a season of four full...