How to watch NASA’s 1st Twitch stream from the ISS this week
NASA's first-ever Twitch stream premieres at 11:45 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 12 on NASA's Twitch channel.
AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified
Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.
Did Covid lockdowns really cause temperatures on the moon to drop?
Scientists have been arguing about a curious topic recently: Did temperatures on the moon dip due to the world's Covid-19 lockdown?
Scientists ‘dust for fingerprints’ around a young star as it births exoplanets
How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field of an infant star from the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around it.
Euclid ‘dark universe’ telescope discovers stunning Einstein ring in warped space-time (image)
The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about dark matter at the heart of a distant galaxy.
World’s fastest supercomputer ‘El Capitan’ goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research
The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third exascale computer.
NASA and General Atomics test nuclear fuel for future moon and Mars missions
General Atomics and NASA achieved an important milestone on the road to using nuclear-powered rockets by testing a new fuel and finding it can withstand extreme conditions.
Space weather scales are outdated and confusing. Here’s what NOAA scientists are doing about it
After receiving feedback from nearly 500 people about revising NOAA's Space Weather Scales, scientists continue to assess what changes need to be front and center.
Exploring Venus may require exotic tech like balloons and ‘aerobots’
Scientists are proposing ways to explore Venus in the next decade and beyond by way of a host of advanced technologies, from balloons to long-lived landers.
1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time