Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has spurred some leading voices in the field to call for a research pause, raise…
Browsing: Space News
The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most rapidly growing fields in…
It’s certainly taken long enough to get to this point but Virgin Galactic has finally sent some of its paying…
The European Space Agency’s (Esa) Euclid mission will launch into space on a Falcon9 rocket from SpaceX on July 1, or soon…
It’s a common meme that any time a science fiction writer creates some terrible object of doom, a venture capitalist…
At the close of the 18th century, the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote one of his masterpieces: an oratorio –…
As dawn rose over the German city of Bremen on May 7 1823, Heinrich Olbers put the finishing touches to an article…
The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the…
We all used to think there were nine planets. But in 2006 the solar system was left with only eight…
Enceladus is the tiny moon of Saturn that seems to have it all. Its icy surface is intricately carved by…