NASA Takes Flight For America’s 250th
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flyover featuring his personally owned Northrop F-5 Tiger during the Great American…
Earth reaches aphelion, marking farthest point from Sun in annual orbit
JEDDAH: Earth reached its annual aphelion on Monday, passing the farthest point in its orbit around the Sun…
SpaceX’s supervoting shares put a decades-old governance debate back in play
The recent high-profile IPO of SpaceX, which famously utilizes dual-class shares to give Elon Musk nearly 85% control,…
New pair of techniques can speed up the search for better tuberculosis drugs
Tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the world’s deadliest single-agent caused infection, responsible for 1.23…
A New Net-Membrane Could Clean Up Some Tricky Space Debris
We’ve reported on all kinds of wacky ideas for capturing and deorbiting space debris safely. From electric tethers…
Bumblebees show emotions through facial expressions just like mammals – KTEN
Bumblebees show emotions through facial expressions just like mammals KTENDo bees have inner lives? Slow-motion video reveals bumblebee behaviour…
On 13 April 2029, a 375-metre asteroid called Apophis will sweep past Earth closer than many telecommunications satellites — and, under clear dark skies, around two billion people across Europe, Africa and parts of Asia may be able to watch it move across the night sky with the naked eye.
On 13 April 2029, an asteroid the size of a large skyscraper, roughly 375 metres across and named…
AlphaFold Fuels Next-Generation Protein Design Platforms
For AI and ML practitioners, the field is shifting from passive structure prediction toward active molecular design, which…
Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist — Colossal
769 photographers and astronomers around the world, representing 66 countries, submitted more than 4,000 images to this year’s…
Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds
Deep in a limestone cave on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Neanderthals and the modern…
See Some of the Best Astronomy Photos of the Last Year
This past year, we’ve been blessed with a heavenly host of celestial phenomena, and the entrants of the…
In Photos: NASA Tests its Next Mars and Moon Rover in a California Desert
While NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers continue to do incredible work on Mars, NASA is in advanced testing…