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To decode mysteries of Mars, scientists are turning to machine learning
Machine learning could help scientists quickly sift through data about the Red Planet, and perhaps other aspects of our cosmos someday, too.
SpaceX refutes reports that its Starship launch pad system polluted Texas waters
SpaceX has strongly refuted a media report claiming the company violated environmental regulations by releasing pollutants related to Starship launches in South Texas.
July 2024 sets new records for global heat and climate disasters
July is in the books as yet another record-setting month of extreme heat and weather.
James Webb Space Telescope strikes again, delivers new shining galaxy image
The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the galaxy Messier 106, which sits in the Canes Venatici constellation.
Live coverage: NASA officials discuss latest on Boeing Crew Fight Test
NASA officials continue to review data on the Starliner spacecraft as they determine how best to conclude the mission and return both the spacecraft as well as its crew back to Earth.
How do you measure wind on Mars? These scientists have a plan
Measuring wind on Mars with great sensitivity is important if we don't want accidents with vehicles, and maybe even astronauts, on the Red Planet.
NASA may use lasers to livestream from the moon one day
Getting a live play-by-play of astronauts on the moon could be possible through laser communications during future Artemis missions.
Colossal X-class solar flare erupts from 'rule-breaking' sunspot and Earth is in the firing line (video)
Watch a colossal X-class solar flare erupt from the sun's highly magnetized 'rule-breaking' sunspot.
Status Report and Expectations for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
Is Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS falling apart? How bright will it likely get? We try to answer those questions and more.
Researchers want to build 'streetlights' on the moon — and they'd be taller than the Statue of Liberty
A private company has received funding from the U.S. government to build the first-ever "streetlights" on the moon — towering, Statue of Liberty-sized structures that could withstand the brutal lunar night.
How the Moon shaped our world: discover our interactive publication
How the Moon shaped our world: discover our interactive publication
Primordial Black Holes Could Kick Out Stars and Replace Them.
Primordial black holes formed during the earliest stages of the evolution of the universe. Their immense gravity may be playing havoc in stellar systems. They can transfer energy into wide binary systems disrupting their orbits. Like celestial bullies their disruption might lead to extreme outcomes though like the ejection of a star, only to be replaced by the black hole itself! A new paper studies the interactions of systems like these and looks at ways we might be able to detect them.
NASA’s Says Goodbye to its Asteroid-Hunting NEOWISE Mission
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched in 2009, spent the next fourteen and half years studying the Universe in infrared wavelengths. During that time, it discovered thousands of minor planets, star clusters, and the first Brown Dwarf and Earth-Trojan asteroid. By 2013, the mission was reactivated by NASA as the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), which was tasked with searching for Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). For ten years, the NEOWISE mission faithfully cataloged comets and asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth someday.
Weird, 'watermelon shape' asteroids like Dimorphos and Selam may finally have an explanation
New research finds why some asteroids have weird, watermelon-shaped moons trapped in orbit around them, contrary to what typical asteroid formation theories predict.
New ISS images showcase auroras, moon and space station in glorious photos (video)
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick's newest visuals show recent auroras from the International Space Station, along with the moon.
Mars Has Lots of Water, But It’s Out of Reach
Mars was once wet, but now its surface is desiccated. Its meagre atmosphere contains only a tiny trace amount of water vapour. But new research says the planet contains ample liquid water. Unfortunately, it’s kilometres under the surface, well out of reach.
Watch a Perseid fireball light up the skies above Macedonia in this striking video
Watch a stunning Perseid fireball blaze over Lake Ohrid, Macedonia in this incredible video.
Highly magnetic dead star launches mysterious blast of energy
Though magnetars and pulsars are two distinct types of neutron stars, astronomers have spotted a magnetar mimicking a pulsar after launching a mysterious blast of intense radiation.
Roller coaster tech could help NASA’s Artemis moon astronauts in case of a launch emergency
NASA recently met with roller coaster experts to talk safety. The braking system used on theme park rides is similar to an emergency system designed for agency moon launches.
Ocean's worth of water may be buried within Mars — but can we get to it?
"We haven't found any evidence for life on Mars, but at least we have identified a place that should, in principle, be able to sustain life."
