And on Canada’s East coast there’s a new effort underway to make the ocean safer for whales, all the way from space. Heidi Petracek shows us how one company is using satellites and artificial intelligence to keep these animals safe.
The fossilized remains of a Neanderthal discovered in a cave in southern France shed fresh light on why the ancient humans may have disappeared 40,000 years ago.
The relics he was buried with are as intriguing as the man himself.
New Heights Tech billionaire and SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman and his three fellow crewmates have officially reached an apogee of 869 miles — roughly three times the altitude of the International Space Station — above the Earth's surface. The team launched on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft early Tuesday morning, kicking off a daring, […]
SpaceX space tourists have pulled off a daring stunt, becoming the first private civilians to go on a spacewalk. While orbiting the Earth at 458 miles, roughly twice the altitude of the International Space Station, billionaire and mission commander Jared Isaacman and crewmate Sarah Gillis carefully climbed outside the SpaceX Crew Dragon. And the […]
Astronomers were able to capture detailed observations of massive gas bubbles moving on the surface of a star, named R. Doradus, located 180 light-years away.
Archaeologists say they made "regionally significant" discoveries during excavations in Holderness.
Death Becomes Her In a new report, a group of aerospace experts have declared that NASA is at a turning point — and the agency's death could be imminent. As the Washington Post notes, the new report, fittingly titled "NASA at a Crossroads" and published at the behest of Congress by the National Academies of Science, […]
Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby mammoth, and a squirrel ball.
SpaceX blasted regulatory delays from the FAA, which it said would push back the next launch of Starship to late November.
Baleen whales include the blue whale, the largest animal ever known.
The crew has gone deeper into the stars than any astronaut mission since the '60s
The four astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission traveled to 870 miles above Earth on Tuesday. Ahead of them Thursday is a bold private spacewalk.
And why it’s harder than you might think to evolve knees.
An American billionaire has become the first person to take part in a private spacewalk - against the spectacular backdrop of the Earth.
China’s LARID detected equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) above the Midway Islands and Egypt’s Pyramids, aiding research in space weather phenomena.
This week in AI, OpenAI's next major product announcement is imminent, if a piece in The Information is to be believed. The Information reported on Tuesday that OpenAI plans to release Strawberry, an AI model that can effectively fact-check itself, in the next two weeks. Strawberry will be a stand-alone product but will be integrated with ChatGPT, OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot platform.
The images show giant, hot bubbles of gas, 75 times the size of the sun, appearing on the surface of the star, called R Doradus.
Baily's beads, a galaxy shot from Namibia and a nebula that took 260 hours to capture are among winners.
Carbon supremacists should begin by demanding to interact with a human in all transactions, and by making this part of the discussion with our elected and appointed leadership.
A commercial SpaceX mission goes places only governments had gone before.
