How to watch the Leonid meteor shower peak this weekend
The Leonids meteor shower will peak this weekend, which means skywatchers will get a chance to see one of the most beautiful sights of the …
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A supernova devastated our ozone in 2022, new study reveals
In October of 2022, telescopes picked up a jet of high energy from a supernova that exploded 1.9 billion light-years away from Earth. This gamma-ray …
NASA pauses Mars Sample Return mission due to ongoing budget issues
NASA’s iconic mission to bring back samples of Martian soil and rocks has gone awry. The space agency shared that the Mars Sample Return mission …
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is spinning faster than we thought
A new paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has proposed something quite intriguing. According to the authors of that …
Adobe adds Pixel 8 RAW support to Photoshop and other apps
Adobe has just added support for Pixel 8 RAW to its editing apps. While it might not sound like a huge deal in and of …
NASA wants to send your name to deep space aboard the Europa Clipper
NASA wants to send your name to deep space. The move is part of an ongoing campaign that the space agency is calling “Message in …
YouTube will tell you when the video you’re watching was generated by AI
YouTube says it will take steps to ensure that generative AI has a place on the video platform while also being responsible with it. In …
Google GraphCast uses AI and machine learning to predict weather
Google has created an AI weather forecaster that could give meteorologists more tools to work with. The new model, GraphCast, was built by Google DeepMind. …
AI pioneer warns ChatGPT can comprehend the meaning of our words and ideas
The ChatGPT threat may be bigger than we thought. At least, that seems to be what one of the “Godfathers of AI,” Geoffry Hinton, is …
NASA can’t communicate with its Mars robots and the Sun’s to blame
NASA’s various Mars exploration robots are on their own, at least for the next few weeks. The space agency isn’t able to communicate directly with …
James Webb discovery could help us understand how Earth formed
The James Webb space telescope has captured data that could help us better understand how Earth formed billions of years ago. According to the new …
Scientists created the first yeast with artificial DNA
Scientists have come one step closer to creating a synthetic yeast. For more than 15 years, researchers have worked tirelessly to build a complex cell …
Martian rocks keep hitting Earth, but something doesn’t add up
For thousands of years, Martian rocks have bombarded Earth, sent flying through space after being ejected from their homeworld by violent impacts or volcanic processes. …
Airbus is testing a new wing design that could revolutionize flight
Airbus is testing a new type of experimental wing that the company hopes could revolutionize how airplanes fly. The new extra performance wing demonstrator took …
Earth microbes could help astronauts grow plants in lunar soil
Future missions to the Moon could see astronauts growing the first plants on the lunar surface. But, getting lunar soil to grow plants has been …
Webb and Hubble team up to capture galactic collision in breathtaking detail
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the now-aging Hubble telescope have joined forces to capture observations of a beautiful galactic collision. The new images captured …
New study claims Greenland glaciers are retreating twice as fast this century
A new study has revealed that Greenland glaciers are retreating twice as fast this century as the last. The revelation came after scientists compared new …
AI-powered noise-canceling headphones let wearers decide what they hear
Noise-canceling headphones have come a long way with their transparency modes, allowing users to hear real-world noise even when listening to something on their headphones. …
Scientists are using lice DNA to learn more about ancient human history
In what might be one of the grossest and most intriguing research cases I’ve read about this year, scientists have started using lice DNA to …
It’s about to get a lot harder to find a Fitbit in these countries
Fitbit is cutting down its worldwide availability to fit in better with Google’s current offerings. Android Authority was the first to notice new support documents …
Google will delete millions of Gmail accounts next month – here’s what you need to know
Google is set to complete a massive Gmail purge in December, where the company estimates it will likely wipe millions of user accounts from its …
Scientists detect oxygen on Venus’s dayside for the first time ever
Scientists have now captured direct detections of oxygen on the daylight side of Venus. This discovery could teach researchers more about the atmosphere on Venus. …
Lucy discovers yet another surprise during Dinkinesh flyby
Earlier this month, NASA’s Lucy probe completed its first flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh, discovering that it actually was part of a binary pair with …
Nature retracts ground-breaking discovery of room-temperature superconductor
Back in March, a paper published in Nature posited that it was possible to create a near-ambient temperature superconductor. Now, several months after the study’s …
Astronomers discover record-breaking black hole from early universe
Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole we have ever seen. The record-breaking black hole was discovered using the combined data of NASA’s Chandra …
Elon Musk says AI will create ‘universal high income’ and eliminate the need for jobs
AI could make us all rich, or at least that seems to be what Elon Musk is suggesting. While speaking at the U.K.’s AI Safety …
ESA’s Euclid telescope shares first images from dark universe mission
The European Space Agency hopes to create the most extensive 3D map of our universe yet, and it plans to do so with the Euclid …
James Webb shows us what our Sun probably looked like when it was birthing
Our Sun is over four billion years old. But, if you could go back in time and take a photo of it, just as it …
NASA’s ad-free streaming service launches this month
NASA’s ad-free streaming service, NASA+, will launch this month. The space agency revealed NASA+ in July and said that the service will be wholly ad-free …
Saturn’s rings will vanish in 2025, but they won’t really be gone
Saturn’s rings will vanish in 2025, but don’t worry, they’ll return. NASA says that the rings around the planet will appear to disappear completely. However, …
