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Communicating with aliens one day could be much easier if we study the way AI agents speak with each other (Image Credit: Space.com) In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards […]
Private Japanese moon lander arrives in Florida ahead of January SpaceX launch (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) Japanese space exploration firm ispace is preparing for a second attempt at landing on the moon. The “Resilience” Mission 2 lander has arrived in Florida ahead of launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, ispace announced […]
Elon Musk’s Plans for a City on Mars Will Likely End in Horrifying Mass Death (Image Credit: futurism-com) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars. With the help of his space company’s gigantic Starship rocket, the mercurial entrepreneur wants to ensure […]
SpaceX launches next-gen US spy satellites, 20 Starlink spacecraft from California (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched another batch of U.S. spy satellites early Saturday morning (Nov. 30). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday at 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 GMT; 12:10 a.m. local time). The […]
SpaceX lofts 24 Starlink satellites in midnight launch from Florida (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast early Saturday morning (Nov. 30). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday at midnight […]
NASA’s next-gen Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope gets its powerful eye (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) Scientists working on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope have achieved a significant milestone in assembling the next-generation observatory, which aims to address critical questions about dark matter, exoplanets and infrared astrophysics. The Optical Telescope Assembly, a […]
I’m Just a Baby: Warped Disk Exposes Newborn Planet, One of the Youngest Ever Discovered (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) The universe is no place for an infant world. As youngins, planets are shrouded by the orbiting disk of material from which they formed, hiding them from view. But a research team’s analysis of […]
‘Marching orders haven’t changed’: New Artemis mobile launcher takes shape amid uncertain future (Image Credit: Phys.org) Credit: Edvin Richardson from Pexels Months after an alarmist review from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, hundreds of construction workers seem out to prove their critics wrong as progress picks up steam on the Artemis […]
SpaceX lofts 24 Starlink satellites in midnight launch from Florida (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast early Saturday morning (Nov. 30). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday at midnight EST […]
How much are asteroids really worth? (Image Credit: Phys.org) Asteroid mining concept. Credit: NASA/Denise Watt Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest metallic asteroid in the asteroid belt, as visiting a body worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000, presumably because their authors like […]
