Beijing (XNA) May 02, 2023
Sci-fi depictions of life in space are often inspired by what is happening on our own planet. Since its release in January, the prequel of Chinese sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth (2019) has made a huge splash with takings passing 4 billion yuan ($580 million), according to box-office tracker Maoyan. Adapted from sci-fi author Liu Cixin's novelette of the same title, The Wandering Ea

Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 01, 2023
Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) are using nanoparticles to develop new sources of light that will allow us to "peel back the curtain" into the world of extremely small objects - thousands of times smaller than a human hair - with major gains for medical and other technologies. The findings, published in Science Advances, could have major implications for medical scie

Baltimore MD (SPX) May 02, 2023
The most common stars in the universe are red dwarf stars, which means that rocky exoplanets are most likely to be found orbiting such a star. Red dwarf stars are cool, so a planet has to hug it in a tight orbit to stay warm enough to potentially host liquid water (meaning it lies in the habitable zone). Such stars are also active, particularly when they are young, releasing ultraviolet an

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 02, 2023
We arrived this morning to Curiosity at a new location with some bright toned, and more rounded rocks in our vicinity. Unfortunately, we could look but not touch as our wheels were positioned such that we could not safely unstow the arm for contact science. We typically have a large suite of arm activities in weekend plans but with those now removed, the science team had ample power and time to

Washington DC (UPI) May 1, 2023
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket with a payload of satellites from the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday after having to abort the mission days earlier. The two-stage rocket - loaded with competitor ViaSat-3 Americas broadband Internet satellite, as well as satellites by Astranis and Gravity Space - was scheduled to launch Friday evening but the mission was aborted with

Washington (AFP) May 1, 2023
US conservation groups on Monday announced they are suing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for not doing enough to protect the environment from SpaceX's Starship program. The move came after the world's most powerful rocket exploded on its first integrated test flight, just four minutes after launching from Boca Chica, Texas on April 20. SpaceX video showed a hail of debris bein

Beijing, China (SPX) May 02, 2023
The Zhurong rover has found evidence of water on dune surfaces on modern Mars by providing key observational proof of liquid water at low Martian latitudes, according to a study led by Prof. QIN Xiaoguang from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of CAS and the Institute of Atmospher

Mountain View CA (SPX) May 02, 2023
One of the world's most powerful radio telescope arrays is joining the hunt for signals from other galactic civilizations. The National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), situated about 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico, is collecting data that scientists will analyze for the type of emissions that only artificial transmitters make, signals that would betray the exist

Herndon VA (SPX) May 02, 2023
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) released the first and only known public satellite image, according to a third-party intelligence analyst, of an alleged aerostat at the Korla East Test Site, China. The rare image was captured Friday, November 4, 2022, at 9 a.m. local time and is one of only two images, from among more than 1,000 images collected over the duration of one year, that shows a

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The seven galaxies highlighted in this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA Telescope have been confirmed to be at a distance that astronomers refer to as redshift 7.9, which correlates to 650 million years after the big bang. This makes them the earliest galaxies yet to be spectroscopically confirmed as part of a developing cluster.

The seven galaxies confirmed by Webb were first established as candidates for observation using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Frontier Fields program. The program dedicated Hubble time to observations using gravitational lensing, to observe very distant galaxies in detail. However, because Hubble cannot detect light