SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon—and It Could Be Visible From Earth

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Scientists have trained an inanimate lump of goo to play the video game Pong. As reported in New Scientist and described in a research paper from scientists at the University of Reading, researchers took a lump of hydrogel and ran an electric current through it while hooked up to a computer that could play Pong….

NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham will embark on her first mission to the International Space Station, serving as an Expedition 76 flight engineer. Burnham will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-30 spacecraft with cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Konstantin Borisov. Launch is targeted for March 2027, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and the trio will spend…

Betelgeuse’s companion star is finally ready for its close-up. Astronomers have taken a clear portrait of an ordinary star orbiting the famed supergiant. Borrowing imaging techniques from exoplanet hunters, the team captured the dim light of the smaller star amid the light of the huge one. The resulting images are the most definitive detection of…

I live In the UK and in my job we use droplets of Silver Nitrate to test for presence of salt water in which case the droplet turns a milky white. I had a small dropper bottle amongst my work equipment I brought home. My elderly mother thought it must have been something like olbas…

There may be an easier way to describe how black holes “leak” energy than the theory Stephen Hawking proposed — and the newly suggested process is similar to how we describe a boiling pot of water. This simple (well, relatively simple) description could be used to model black holes in many situations such as during…