Voyager 1: NASA's longest-running spacecraft back in touch with Earth after five months of silence
NASA's longest-running spacecraft Voyager 1 is sending information back to Earth again for the first time since November.
NASA's longest-running spacecraft Voyager 1 is sending information back to Earth again for the first time since November.
The astronauts stranded on the International Space Station are still not able to come home, Nasa has said. Two astronauts went to the space station almost 50 days ago as part of a test of Boeing’s Starliner capsule. Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to visit the orbiting lab for about a week and return in mid-June, but thruster failures and helium leaks on Boeing‘s new Starliner capsule prompted Nasa and Boeing to keep them up longer.
Pinpoint Stars In 2003, when the International Space Station was a mere three years old, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit took a gorgeous picture of the Earth's atmosphere, with countless stars frozen in time in the background. But as Pettit revealed in a Reddit post earlier this week, the same photo "cannot be taken anymore" — […]
Trapped Gases NASA has released a new visualization that shows copious amounts of carbon dioxide swirling around the Earth's atmosphere. The video shows how concentrations of the gas move across the planet, driven by wind and atmospheric circulation, from January through March 2020. The level of detail is truly astonishing, allowing us to "zoom in […]
A 3ft by 2ft rock marked with off-white spots may offer fossilised record of microbes dating back billions of years
After weeks of testing, NASA and Boeing officials say they better understand the issues plaguing the Starliner spacecraft, but still aren’t ready to name a return date.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has made what could be its most astonishing discovery to date: possible signs of ancient life on the Red Planet.The quest to confirm ancient Martian life is far from over, however.
The rocket designed to carry the first humans to the Moon in over half a century has officially made its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) just over a year ahead of its tentative launch date. The enormous, 212-foot rocket stage made its way from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to […]
In the game of climate change, there are winners and losers. These four animals will come out on top, but you probably won't be happy about it.
The notion of Africa splitting has the attention scientists and geologists worldwide, as the Great Rift Valley stretches and tears at the Earth's crust.
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What happens when you feed AI-generated content back into an AI model? Put simply: absolute chaos. A fascinating new study published in the journal Nature shows that AI models trained on AI-generated material will quickly experience rapid "model collapse." Basically, as an AI model cannibalizes AI-generated data, that AI model's outputs become increasingly bizarre, garbled, […]
James, from Wareham in Dorset, found a rare mammal tooth in sand brought for the Natural History Museum activities at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival.
Last week, NASA made a shocking announcement. It would not be sending its $450 million rover, called the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the Moon, where its state of the art capabilities were anticipated to uncover secrets about water ice just beneath the lunar surface. The reason, according to NASA officials, is that […]
Artefacts sent by farmer, who made the ‘absolutely mad’ discovery while cutting silage
A rock on Mars may have hosted microscopic life billions of years ago, Nasa believes.
The concentration of the drug was up to 100 times higher than previously observed in other marine life.
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State of the Climate report shows sea surface temperatures 0.9C higher than the 1961 to 1990 average
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