Tag: science
Martians wanted by NASA
NASA is seeking applicants to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars surface mission to help inform the agency’s plans for human exploration [...]
NASA’s new experimental antenna tracks deep space laser
Capable of receiving both radio frequency and optical signals, the DSN’s hybrid antenna has tracked and decoded the downlink laser from DSOC, aboard [...]
Webb depicts staggering 19 nearby spiral galaxies
It’s oh-so-easy to be absolutely mesmerized by these spiral galaxies. Follow their clearly defined arms, which are brimming with stars, to their cent [...]
NASA ends Ingenuity helicopter mission in Mars
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission on the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and [...]
Webb finds signs of aurorae on brown dwarf
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infra [...]
Webb shows early galaxies in odd shapes
Researchers using Webb found that many distant galaxies have flattened oval disk and tube-like shapes, not spiral or elliptical structures.
Webb h [...]
Researchers to help fill holes in Europe’s AI Act
Scientists have been promised a front-row seat for the formulation of the EU’s proposed AI regulatory structures. They should seize this opportunity [...]
Digital health technology and older adult care
Digital health technology has the potential to revolutionise geriatric care. The digital divide has decreased among older adults, and over a third of [...]
Hubble catches a vast galactic neighborhood
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies:
The large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side [...]
Cities on US East Coast are sinking
Major cities on the U.S. Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year, a decline at the ocean's edge that well outpace [...]