China has, in recent years, greatly accelerated its space program. It has sent a rover to Mars, along with several…
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We have identified the coldest star ever found to produce radio waves – a brown dwarf too small to be…
Why are advanced humanoid robots always named after mythical godlike figures? Boston Dynamics has Atlas, NASA has Valkyrie, and even…
Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the…
Before the age of vertically-landing rockets, the pinnacle of the space program’s reusable ambitions was the space shuttle. NASA’s iconic…
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has spurred some leading voices in the field to call for a research pause, raise…
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…