A decade ago it was a sky crane, a be-mohawked NASA engineer named Bobak and a $2.5 billion rover called Curiosity that took my career in a new direction. Mainly, it was the high-resolution photos … [+6062 chars]
Scientists analysing data from #NASA's (@NASA) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft and computer modelling, have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always hover around … [+645 chars]
This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. Large language models like GPT-3 have advanced to the point that it has become difficult to measure the limits of their capabilitie… [+10975 chars]
Artemis I, the first mission of NASAs Artemis Program is just under a month away from taking off to the Moon. According to NASA, the launch window for the mission would open at 8:33 am EDT (6:03 pm I… [+2267 chars]
Weeks after the James Webb Telescope beamed back the first exceptional science images from the edge of time itself, the observatory is busy studying planets in our own solar system. Astronomers have … [+2261 chars]
ByUniversity of GenevaJuly 31, 2022 Beginning a Journey Across the Universe: The Discovery of Extragalactic Neutrino Factories. Credit: © Benjamin Amend For the first time, researchers reveal the o… [+4246 chars]
The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and … [+5763 chars]
This August we dont have many sky quotes. But, like every year, the perseids, the queens of astronomical events. For that alone, astronomy lovers are in luck. Although this year the maximum peak coin… [+3351 chars]
Scientists analysing data from #NASA's (@NASA) Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft and computer modelling, have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always hover around … [+645 chars]
<ul><li>Agencies</li><li> 31-07-2022 12:30 PM</li></ul> Days before pieces of what is believed to be a Chinese rocket fall on Earth, parts of space junk were found at a sheep farm in Australia. It i… [+580 chars]
NASA has new equipment to monitor the Earths climate, and this week the EMIT equipment on board the International Space Station (ISS) is making its first measurements. The Earths Surface Mineral Dust… [+1810 chars]
Astronomers have observed the biggest neutron star, one aptly classified as a "black widow," has grown tremendously huge by sucking up most of the mass of a stellar companion trapped in an unhappy co… [+3359 chars]