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Walking on the Moon by 2030, building a lunar base, and then perhaps on to Mars: after 30 years of honing its expertise, China is challenging the United States' supremacy in spaceflight. As US space agency NASA prepares for its crewed lunar…
Astronomers discovered that WASP-17b has an uneven atmosphere, with extreme temperature differences between its morning and evening sides. Planets appear as perfectly round disks when they cross in front of their stars, and astronomers have long measured them that way.
A retired RAF fighter pilot called Wing Commander Andy Green proved that speed doesn’t kill. In 1997, in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA, he drove the world’s fastest car, ThrustSSC, at an incredible speed of 763.035 mph, which not only…
A fridge-sized satellite, four chips and 15-minute work sessions. Here is why this small Google test matters more than it looks. When people hear “AI data center in space,” they picture something huge: rows of glowing servers floating above the…
On October 1, another Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg on the Transporter-18 rideshare, carrying about 130 payloads at once. Among the cubesats and Earth-observation satellites was a fridge-sized spacecraft that Google internally calls simply MVP. Inside are four server-grade AI chips, the…
Por Jack Guy y Lauren J. Young, CNN Astrónomos que analizaban estrellas enanas blancas encontraron por primera vez una estrella que parecería verde a los ojos humanos, según un nuevo estudio. Mark Hollands, astrofísico de la Universidad de Warwick (Inglaterra) y…
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October 17, 2026 2:41 AM / Staff Report A Cornell-led science team is preparing a new telescope high in Chile's Atacama Desert for its first observations, a step toward studying galaxy clusters, the early universe and the Milky Way with instruments built in part…
An ambitious new chapter in India’s private space sector building toward a future where satellites don’t just detect problems. They learn to respond to them. It must operate in an environment where conditions can change unexpectedly, communication with Earth is…
This post began as a thread on X last night. I’ve edited the thread to turn it into a blog post, making some additions and corrections. I’m watching 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The movie opens saying the monolith is…