A UK-based astrophotographer captured this stunning composite image of the Perseid meteor shower raining “shooting stars” over Stonehenge.
A Durham native and three other crew members are preparing to embark on a flight of a lifetime to push the boundaries of commercial space exploration.
On Aug. 26, Mission pilot Scott Poteet will help lead SpaceX’s Falcon Rocket with the goal of soaring more than 1,400 kilometers at approximately 17,500 mph beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The launch will take place at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.
NASA’s X-59 QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Technology) aircraft is on the brink of making history, as it nears its highly anticipated maiden flight.
Designed to break the sound barrier without producing the disruptive sonic boom traditionally associated with supersonic speeds, the X-59 promises to revolutionize air travel.
With a sleek design and innovative technology, the aircraft has the potential to open up a new era of quieter supersonic flights, particularly over land—a feat that has been unattainable since the era of the Concorde.
The moon’s glow meets a multicolored aurora in a new astronaut image from space.
International Space Station (ISS) and NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, a veteran photographer of the Expedition 71 crew, captured the moon and auroras from his perch 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth.
A new study provides evidence that Mars contains a large ocean deep beneath its surface.
The finding is based on data collected by the InSight Lander, a robotic explorer operated by the American space agency NASA. InSight, which landed in 2018, was designed to capture data from within the planet’s interior. The lander ended its operations on Mars in late 2022.
For the current study, researchers used seismic data collected by InSight. The team examined the data to study Martian quake activity. Seismic activity on Mars happens in the form of “marsquakes.” NASA says InSight had recorded more than 1,300 marsquakes.
A team of AI researchers at Sakana AI, in Japan, working with colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of British Columbia, has developed an AI system that can conduct scientific research autonomously.
The group has posted a paper to the arXiv preprint server describing their system, which they call “The AI Scientist”. They have also posted an overview of their system on Sakana’s corporate website.
Scientific research is generally a long and involved process. It tends to start with a simple idea, such as, “Is there a way to stop the buildup of plaque on human teeth?” Scientists then research other studies to determine what research has been done on the topic.
Imaging the 4D choreography of subcellular events in living multicellular organisms at high spatiotemporal resolution could reveal life’s fundamental principles. Yet extracting these principles from petabyte-scale image data requires fusing advanced light microscopy and cutting-edge machine learning models with biological insight and expertise.
In an unexpected turn of events, a two-week archaeological dig unearthed a remarkably intact mastodon skull in a creek that might carry signs of human life too.
Over twelve days, archaeologists unearthed several mastodon bones. However, the skull, being “the first-ever well-preserved” artifact of its kind, makes it a significant find with potential connections to human history.
“We’re really hoping to find evidence of human interaction with this creature — perhaps the projectile points and knives that were used to kill the animal and do initial butchering,” John Doershuk, director and state archaeologist at the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) said.
A possible solution to the dark matter problem.
As the early universe cooled and expanded, phase transitions might have left “bubble walls,” energetic barriers between pockets of space.
Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) next decade.
A new open-access RNA sequencing dataset, MAGE, of 731 individuals across geographically diverse human populations provides a valuable resource to study genetic diversity and evolution and expands the capacity to identify new genetic associations.