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NASA and IBM launch AI model for lunar science: improves crater detection by 19% with less data
7+ hour, 58+ min ago (256+ words) The collaboration between NASA and IBM has resulted in an innovative open-source artificial intelligence model aimed at revolutionizing lunar science. This development aims to streamline the analysis of the vast amount of data about our natural satellite and accelerate scientific…...
Study suggests Venus may have swallowed its moon
8+ hour, 31+ min ago (586+ words) A California astrophysicist has presented a new theory that could explain why Venus, the planet most similar to Earth in size, mass and structure, does not have a moon. It could be said to be a case of celestial cannibalism....
Predatory Dinosaur Coprolite Reveals How Feather Structure May Have Helped Birds Survive the Asteroid Winter
3+ hour, 31+ min ago (570+ words) A tiny feather hidden inside an ancient predator’s waste may help solve one of paleontology’s biggest mysteries: why some birds survived while others vanished. The fossilized droppings of a predatory dinosaur preserved tiny feathers, leg bones, and the remains of…...
Some birds survived the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs. A fossilized poop can help explain why
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (813+ words) Tiny feathers encased in fossilized poop are helping scientists understand why some birds made it through the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and others did not. "It's such a beautiful, well-preserved feather, from such an unexpected source, and…...
Venus may have swallowed its own moon
5+ hour, 40+ min ago (919+ words) New research suggests Venus could once have had a moon, only for the planet’s unusually slow rotation to pull it inward until it crashed into the surface. Venus is often described Earth’s twin. Same rough size, same mass, similar structure....
Webb finds mysterious objects barely twice the mass of Jupiter
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (761+ words) Webb peers into nearby stellar nursery IC 348, revealing record-small brown dwarfs and newborn stars blasting powerful jets through space. Today’s Image of the Day from the European Space Agency takes us inside a busy stellar nursery where some of the…...
NASA Invites Media to International Observe the Moon Night
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (203+ words) NASA will host an International Observe the Moon Night celebration from 5:30 to 8 p.m. CST on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the official visitor center for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. International Observe the Moon Night celebrates…...
Carson City observatory holding ‘Observe the Moon Night’ on Saturday
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (223+ words) The moon is nearly 240,000 miles away, but Saturday, Northern Nevada residents will have an opportunity to take a closer look. Western Nevada College’s Jack C. Davis Observatory will join people around the world in celebrating NASAs International Observe the Moon…...
Pieces of the moon to arrive in Reading for NASA Observation Night
9+ hour, 18+ min ago (343+ words) Rocks recovered from the NASA Apollo Moon missions will be displayed at Whiteknights campus next month, accompanied by outdoor stargazing and a series of talks for International Observe the Moon Night 2026. Picture: University of Reading SAMPLES of the Moon will…...
NASA Stops Work On Mars Orbiter After Contract Protest
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (101+ words) Aviation Week NASA Stops Work On Mars Orbiter After Contract Protest Mars Telecommunications Orbiter concept art. Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire…...