A próxima competição Gateways to Blue Skies da NASA convida equipes universitárias a imaginarem novas maneiras inovadoras em que aeronaves poderiam inspecionar …
Stone tools from a lakeside site in Saudi Arabia hint that Neanderthals were adapted to the arid Arabian interior, not just to cold places.…
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and first female French spacewalker Sophie Adenot removed a failed antenna but ran out of time to install its replacement at the Inter…
When the four astronauts on board NASA’s Artemis II swung around the moon earlier this year, they set a new record for the farthest humans have ever ventured fr…
Einstein’s abandoned cosmological constant made a spectacular comeback when astronomers discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. It now sits at…
O Boeing 777 da NASA exibe uma nova pintura nesta foto de 11 de agosto de 2026. O B777 foi adquirido para substituir e ampliar as capacidades do NASA DC-8, que …
Three new AI-designed chip components are just a few micrometers long and go beyond what human engineers have previously envisaged.…
After Starship's test launch and splashdown last month, SpaceX recovery teams have successfully tugged the vehicle through a turbulent stretch of the Indian Oce…
The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate …
Muitos dos avanços mais importantes da NASA em tecnologia aeroespacial que começaram no laboratório foram comprovados, finalmente, no céu. Por décadas, especial…
The rate of global warming, rather than the extra heat itself, could determine whether a system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning C…
SpaceX will launch its 100th mission of the year tonight (Aug. 18), and you can watch the action live.…
A magnetar’s colossal magnetic field may have revealed a quantum effect predicted by Werner Heisenberg nearly 90 years ago, in which seemingly empty space alter…
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Archaeologists in Italy have discovered stunning bronze statuettes and a unique plate at the bottom of a ritual well associated with an ancient Etruscan goddess…
The JCB Hydromax vehicle averaged more than 400 mph during two runs in Utah last week, becoming the fastest hydrogen-powered car in history.…
Childhood criticism can leave people carrying a fear of failure long into adulthood, but new research suggests those emotional patterns may be surprisingly flex…
The powerful storm delivered extreme rainfall and damaging winds to the state, passing the Island of Hawaiʻi as a category 1 hurricane.…
A recent satellite photo captured a series of clouds sculpted by von Kármán vortices from a volcano on South Korea's Jeju Island. A giant multicolor plume, ejec…
The night sky is not an impenetrable “blanket of stars.” There is depth and detail that can be navigated and known, probed and plundered for rewards — and the b…
Polar tourism researchers Zdenka Sokolickova and Liz Cooper talk about why a number of Antarctic tour guides have given up what they still consider to be their …
The "Black Eye Galaxy" is captured in a gorgeous new composite image from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.…
On Aug. 18, 1868, a French astronomer named Pierre Jules César Janssen discovered helium while observing a total solar eclipse in India.…