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NASA’s New “Lunar Backpack” Can Generate a Real-Time 3D Terrain Map To Aid Moon
Michael Zanetti, a NASA planetary scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, hikes the Cinder cone in Potrillo volcanic field in New Mexico in late 2021,…
Rare ‘Christmas Star’ to Appear Dec. 21: Here’s What Astronomy Says About the
In just a few days, you can witness a rare event in the night sky that has not been seen in almost eight centuries.
The two largest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, will…
Mysterious asteroid the size of a dwarf planet is lurking in our solar system
There's a giant asteroid somewhere out in the solar system, and it hurled a big rock at Earth.The evidence for this mystery space rock comes from a diamond-studded meteor that exploded…
SpaceX’s Starship SN9 prototype fires its engines for the 1st time
SpaceX has fired up its newest Starship prototype for the first time.The SN9 vehicle's three engines lit up for about one second today (Jan. 6) at 5:07 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) during a…
From interstellar space, twin Voyager probes spot ‘electron burst’
NASA's twin Voyager probes keep making discoveries in interstellar space.The Voyager mission has detected a new type of "electron burst," which will provide insights into the mechanisms…
Potential life on ancient Mars likely lived below the surface, study says
Life, as we understand it on Earth, requires some basic ingredients. Water is one of those. And for years, NASA's succession of robotic missions has been "following the water" on Mars to…
A Harvard professor has claimed in his new book that alien debris passed near Earth
This artist's impression shows the first-known interstellar object to visit the solar system, "Oumuamua," which was discovered on October 19, 2017, by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii.…
AI lab DeepMind cracked the protein folding problem, changing biology with AlphaFold
DeepMind, an AI research lab that was bought by Google and is now an independent part of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced a major breakthrough this week that one…