[ad_1] On Wednesday evening, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of the Australian coast of Tasmania, those aboard the research vessel Investigator witnessed something incredible. At 9:21 p.m. local time, a bright green meteor crossed the sky before smashing over the Tasman Sea – disappearing from view in just seconds. If anything does make it … Read more
[ad_1] “By the time the AI comes back and tells you that, then we’ve reached general artificial intelligence, and you should be very scared or very excited, depending on your point of view,” said Dr Tegmark. “The reason I’m working on this, honestly, is because what I find most threatening is that if we build … Read more
[ad_1] Floods of unimaginable magnitude swept through Gale Crater on Mars about 4 billion years ago, increasing the possibility that life once existed on the Red Planet. Researchers from Jackson State University, Cornell University and the University of Hawaii worked with NASA to examine the sediment data captured by the Curiosity Rover. Dubbed a “ … Read more
[ad_1] A Frozen Moon Eclipse Is Coming – Here’s How & When To See It | Travel + Leisure Skip to content Top navigation close Explore Travel + Leisure close See picture How to see a freezing lunar eclipse and a gorgeous full moonrise next week this link is to an external site which may … Read more
[ad_1] Enlarge / Flight Director James M. (Milt) Heflin, at mission control during the STS-26 flight in 1988. NASA The phone call from the “Mountain” to mission control in Houston came at about the worst possible time. It was the wee hours of Thanksgiving morning in 1991. In space, the crew members aboard the space … Read more
[ad_1] WENCHANG, China (AP) – Chinese technicians were preparing final preparations for a mission to bring materiel from the moon’s surface for the first time in nearly half a century on Monday – a venture that could improve understanding of the moon and the solar system more generally. Chang’e 5 – named after the Chinese … Read more
[ad_1] Last summer, the Arecibo observatory suffered significant damage when an auxiliary cable that supports the platform above the telescope broke and struck the reflector dish. Immediately after, technicians from the observatory and the University of Central Florida (UCF) began work to stabilize the structure and assess the damage. Sadly, about two weeks ago (November … Read more
[ad_1] Through ESA / Hubble November 23, 2020 Image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the neighboring galaxy IC 5063. A collection of narrow light rays and dark shadows are seen radiating out of the extremely bright center of the active galaxy, traversing at least 36,000 light years. IC 5063 resides 156 million light years … Read more
[ad_1] In the dusty desert town of Woomera in the southern Australian desert, scientists are getting ready. On December 6, 2020, after six years in space, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft will finally return to Earth. It carries with it an incredibly rare, valuable and hard-earned cargo – at least 100 milligrams of … Read more
[ad_1] A Falcon 9 launch can typically carry around 60 Starlink satellites. SpaceX SpaceX aims to launch its 16th batch of its Starlink broadband satellites on Monday, a day after the success of Elon Musk’s rocket company sent a new NASA and European Space Agency satellite into orbit. Boosting a new set of its routers … Read more