WASHINGTON (AP) — An international astronomy group is the latest to join calls for the creation of a lunar clock to keep time on the moon.
Last crater of this size was found only in 2013, scientists say
New Heights Tech billionaire and SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman and his three fellow crewmates have officially reached an apogee of 869 miles — roughly three times the altitude of the International Space Station — above the Earth's surface. The team launched on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft early Tuesday morning, kicking off a daring, […]
Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft wasn't empty when it gently drifted back down to Earth over the New Mexico desert over the weekend. While NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams' seats were unoccupied, their empty spacesuits were sent back down inside the spacecraft. That's because those spacesuits won't be of any help from this […]
Baleen whales include the blue whale, the largest animal ever known.
Death Becomes Her In a new report, a group of aerospace experts have declared that NASA is at a turning point — and the agency's death could be imminent. As the Washington Post notes, the new report, fittingly titled "NASA at a Crossroads" and published at the behest of Congress by the National Academies of Science, […]
Two recent studies have cast doubt on a popular theory that the ancient residents of Easter Island suffered a societal collapse because they overexploited their natural resources, an event often labelled one of history's first "ecocides".This tale of ecological suicide -- or "ecocide" -- by the Rapanui "has been presented as a warning tale for humanity's overexploitation of resources," according to the authors of a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.
Astronomers observed a close pair of black holes dancing around one another using the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Jared Isaacman will attempt a historic space walk as part of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission. Learn more about the high school dropout-turned-billionaire.
Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, baby mammoth, and squirrel ball.
New studies have cast doubt on the widely held belief that Easter Island’s indigenous population collapsed after committing “ecocide”.
The images show giant, hot bubbles of gas, 75 times the size of the sun, appearing on the surface of the star, called R Doradus.
Population collapse theory seems to be ‘colonial narrative’, scientist says
The technology developed by UCL was presented at the British Science Festival.
Virginia residents reported seeing a bright object in the sky early Tuesday, September 10, amid the launch of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission, local outlets reported.This video was captured by X user @ffbowns, who said it was filmed in Chantilly.The rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Tuesday, but officials could not confirm whether the sightings reported by Virginia residents were views of the rocket, ABC7 reported.The SpaceX mission aims to mark the first private spacewalk and the farthest distance from Earth that humans have reached since the end of the Apollo spaceflight program. Credit: @ffbowns via Storyful
This week in AI, OpenAI's next major product announcement is imminent, if a piece in The Information is to be believed. The Information reported on Tuesday that OpenAI plans to release Strawberry, an AI model that can effectively fact-check itself, in the next two weeks. Strawberry will be a stand-alone product but will be integrated with ChatGPT, OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot platform.
SpaceX has launched its most public and aggressive offensive against regulators to date, with a blog post published Tuesday urging more expeditious launch licensing — lest the country lose its place as the leader in the global space race. Orbital launch is a tightly regulated industry governed chiefly by the Federal Aviation Administration, though to obtain a launch license from the FAA, companies must also show they are in compliance with local and environmental law. Rockets that operate commercial services regularly, like SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, do so under a blanket vehicle operator license.
Hardt says it had a successful first test of its hyperloop prototype at its test centre in the Netherlands.
STORY: :: A spacecraft with Russian and American crewmembers reaches the International Space Station:: September 11, 2024The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft was carrying NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.Russian news agencies, referring to a livestream provided by the Roskosmos space corporation, said the craft docked without incident with the Russian segment of the space station.
Billionaire Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX employees and a former Air Force pilot are the crew of Mission Polaris Dawn.
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