Very unlikely, but could make for a neat light show if it does There is a chance, albeit slim, that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Moon, creating a new crater and an explosion that might just be visible from Earth.…
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Lees meerVery unlikely, but could make for a neat light show if it does There is a chance, albeit slim, that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Moon, creating a new crater and an explosion that might just be visible from Earth.…
Lees meerScientists refine estimates, but can't yet rule out an impact The latest figures from the European Space Agency (ESA) on the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4 show a reduction in uncertainty around the object's orbit while the probability of impact re…
Lees meerVery unlikely, but could make for a neat light show if it does There is a chance, albeit slim, that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Moon, creating a new crater and an explosion that might just be visible from Earth.…
Lees meerThe Cupola continues to offer the best views in the universe It has been 15 years since the ultimate selfie booth, the Cupola, was attached to the International Space Station (ISS).…
Lees meerStudent shows 'uniform hashing is optimal' was just wishful thinking It isn't often that a decades-old assumption underpinning modern technology is overturned, but a recent paper based on the work of an undergraduate and his two co-authors has done …
Lees meerEinstein’s spooky action at a distance just got an upgrade Oxford University researchers have taken a significant step toward large-scale distributed quantum computing by demonstrating the first successful quantum teleportation of a controlled quant…
Lees meerPrevious NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real After several years of lab-testing ideas for orbital manufacturing technology, the US Department of Defense's research arm has decided to head into orbit f…
Lees meer40 m or 90 m? The difference matters in the case of impact The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to be pointed at asteroid 2024 YR4 to reduce uncertainty regarding the chances of the object impacting Earth in the coming years.…
Lees meerEngineer was behind the HEC series and more Obit Raymond Bird, who developed the UK's first mass-produced business computer, the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has died at the digitally apropos age of 101.…
Lees meerEinstein’s spooky action at a distance just got an upgrade Oxford University researchers have taken a significant step toward large-scale distributed quantum computing by demonstrating the first successful quantum teleportation of a controlled quant…
Lees meerEngineer was behind the HEC series and more Obit Raymond Bird, who developed the UK's first mass-produced business computer, the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has died at the digitally apropos age of 101.…
Lees meer'RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon NASA has revealed its experimental Radiation Tolerant Computer has made it through the famously and furiously radiating Van Allen belts …
Lees meerOverdue, over budget and now... perhaps just over? Boeing has notified staff that hundreds of jobs could be eliminated if the Artemis program is canceled or heavily revised.…
Lees meerVladimir Putin opens airlock after just three years Roscosmos boss Yury Borisov has been fired from the Russian space agency by executive order of the country's president, Vladimir Putin.…
Lees meerFunding freeze while Feds review priorities If you were hoping the Biden administration's $5 billion investment in building a cross-country network of EV chargers would soon have you road-tripping in an electric car without range anxiety, think agai…
Lees meerSpacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water They can put a man on the Moon - but back on Earth, a busted water pipe managed to knock out NASA's solar mission data for months.…
Lees meerLooking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear Months after Amazon joined a half-billion-dollar funding round for next-gen modular nuclear startup X-energy, the biz has announced a supplemental Series C-1 raise - despite its fission reactor…
Lees meerLooking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear Months after Amazon joined a half-billion-dollar funding round for next-gen modular nuclear startup X-energy, the biz has announced a supplemental Series C-1 raise - despite its fission reactor…
Lees meerHere's hoping freeze-dried Polish dumplings are just as good as ones freshly fried in butter When Axiom Space's fourth mission to the International Space Station arrives in orbit this spring it'll include Poland's second-ever astronaut, who will bri…
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