Austin is home to many of the players in the new space race, like CEO Shey Sabripour, whose startup just raised tens of millions to make satellite-based communications more efficient.

Sanctions mean joint Russian-European ExoMars mission is likely to be postponed for a third time.

The impact crater is the second discovered in China.

A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years.

Prior to 2020, the only other impact crater ever discovered in China was found in Xiuyan county of the coastal province of Liaoning, according to a statement from the NASA Earth Observatory. Then, in July 2021, scientists confirmed that a geological structure in the Lesser Xing’an mountain range had formed as a result of a space rock striking Earth. The team published a description of the newfound impact crater that month in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.

Lattice confinement fusion eliminates massive magnets and powerful lasers.

After a burst lit up their telescope “like a Christmas tree,” astronomers were able to finally track down the source of these cosmic oddities.