Resolving the Kardashev’s Conundrum Using a Bitcoin-Inspired Metric
In his 1964 paper, “Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations,” famed astrophysicist and radio astronomer Nikolai Kardashev addressed…
Space debris is forcing satellites to dodge more often — costing us vital science. ‘Things will get worse before they get better’
On the morning of Jan. 8, 2025, a red dot popped up on NASA’s Fire Information for Resource…
Dormant volcano suddenly wakes up after 700,000 years of silence
A volcano in southeastern Iran has nudged upward by about 3.5 inches (9 centimeters) in 10 months. This…
SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers
Elon Musk’s SpaceX committed to spending over $2.8 billion in recent months to buy gas turbines to power…
Tiny fossils found in 1.7 billion-year-old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life
Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock.…
Future Mars Rovers Could Mimic a Swimming Motion to Traverse the Planet’s Surface
Nature forces lifeforms to adapt to its conditions. That is a basic fact behind natural selection. From that…
Complex animals evolved up to 10 million years earlier than previously thought, fossil discovery shows
A trove of fossils uncovered in northwestern Canada suggests that complex animals evolved in North America earlier than…
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world
“As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective,” NASA said in a press release. The…
Methane Found in Atmosphere of Earth-like Saturn-sized Planet
A planet that is about the size of Saturn, but with a temperature more like Earth’s, has an…
Neptune moon could be only intact survivor from ancient collision
Summary New data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests Neptune moon Nereid survived an ancient collision that…
Nonlinear atomic tunnelling boosted by bright squeezed vacuum
Experimental details Both coherent and quantum light sources are pumped with the same femtosecond laser pulse (790 nm, 28 fs,…
NASA’s Psyche Asteroid Mission Nails Its Mars Gravity Assist
NASA’s Psyche Asteroid Mission Nails Its Mars Gravity Assist | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Mark…