European Space Agency’s Juice mission launches to search for life on Jupiter’s moons.

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission (Juice) on Friday, 14 April, at 8:14 a.m. ET using an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Juice aims to explore Jupiter and three of its largest moons. Following a …

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ESA Is Launching an Epic Mission to Jupiter's Icy Moons.

This is one of the mysteries that the space mission JUICE (for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) – set to be launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on Thursday 13 April 2023 at 12.14 pm UT – will look to elucidate. To propel this mission to a planet located more than 600 million kil…

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Kenya launches first operational satellite into orbit.

Kenya launched its first operational earth observation satellite on Saturday onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States, a live feed from Elon Musk's rocket company showed. The satellite, developed by nine Kenyan engineers, will collect agricultural and environmental…

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52 million-year-old bat skeleton is the oldest ever found and belongs to a never-before-seen species.

Two stunningly preserved, 52 million-year-old bat skeletons unearthed in Wyoming are the oldest ever found and belong to a never-before-seen species, researchers have revealed. The rare fossils were discovered in the Green River Formation in the southwest of the state.  The n…

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Webb Reveals Never-Before-Seen Details In Cassiopeia A.

The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains the star leaves behind can be even more dramatic. A new mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provides one stunning example. It shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), created by a st…

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NASA’s High-Resolution Air Quality Control Instrument Launches.

NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument has successfully launched, marking a significant step forward in the monitoring of major air pollutants. The instrument will provide unprecedented resolution, allowing scientists to observe air qualit…

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China's Space Pioneer reaches orbit with Tianlong-2 Rocket.

The Chinese company Space Pioneer successfully launched its Tianlong-2 rocket into orbit early Sunday (April 2), making space exploration history in the process.  The 4:48 a.m. Beijing Time launch from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center located in the Gobi Desert, I…

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Giant study pinpoints specific Gut Bacteria linked to Alzheimer's.

Tensions between the brain, the gut, and the makeup of its microbial inhabitants appear to play a critical role in the development of neurodegenerative conditions. Using the largest ever genome-wide association study of human gut microflora, a team of researchers from the US…

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Spy balloon sent data to China in real time.

The Chinese balloon that flew over the US earlier this year managed to gather intelligence from military bases for days before it was shot down, US media report. The balloon was able to transmit data to Beijing in real time, NBC News reported, citing US officials. The craft p…

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Fossil hunters uncover ancient Australian wombat.

Researchers in Australia have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown ancient marsupial which roamed the continent some 25 million years ago. Described as a cross between a wombat and a marsupial lion, the beast - named Mukupirna fortidentata - is thought to have weighed …

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NASA’s Water-observing Satellite Sends First Images back to Earth.

A recently launched satellite designed to study all water across the world has begun sending its first images back to Earth. The American space agency NASA says the satellite is expected to measure the elevation of nearly all water on Earth’s surface. It is the largest and m…

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170 million-year-old ‘flower’ discovered by Chinese paleontologists.

Chinese researchers have found fossils of an ancient plant dating back to about 170 million years ago.  The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences recently announced they had discovered the earliest angiosperm known in Northwest China thr…

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'MF Hydra': World's first liquid hydrogen-powered ferry gets operational.

The world's first liquid hydrogen-powered ferry launched by the Norwegian business Norled is operational now.  The Norwegian Maritime Administration granted MF Hydra, the ferry, clearance to sail, said the company's press release on Friday.  Since the beginning of the…

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World's first' AI-powered robotic dog with musculoskeletal limbs.

A Chinese startup company called Hengbot has unveiled "Sparky," the first robotic dog in the world with musculoskeletal limbs. The inventive robot can run, jump, and do tricks like a real dog using advanced artificial intelligence (AI), claims the company.  Sparky, …

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Musk, experts urge pause on AI systems, citing ‘risks to society’.

Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society and humanity. The letter, issued by …

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Archaeologists uncovered a ‘golden tomb’ during excavations in Armenia.

A team of archaeologists made up of Polish and Armenian scientists has discovered a “golden tomb” containing two skeletons in Metsamor, Armenia. The team discovered the remains of three gold necklaces while excavating the grave of two people, most likely a couple (a man and …

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Gigantic dinosaur skeleton on show in London.

A colossus has landed in London: A cast of what was one of the biggest animals ever to walk the Earth is now on show at the Natural History Museum. Patagotitan was a dinosaur that lived 100 million years ago in South America. Measuring some 37m (121ft) from nose to tail, the …

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Intel co-founder and philanthropist Gordon Moore has died.

Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94. Moore died Friday at his home in Hawaii, according to In…

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THE ABEL PRIZE 2023

Luis Caffarelli, 74, has won the 2023 Abel Prize “for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge-Ampère equation”. What is the Abel Prize? The prize was established by the Norwegia…

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2,000 mummified ram heads left in honor of Egypt's most powerful pharaoh are found.

More than 2,000 mummified ram heads and a palatial Old Kingdom structure have been uncovered by archaeologists at the King Ramses II Temple of Abydos. The finds, located roughly 270 miles south of Cairo, come from a period of over 1,000 years, from the Sixth Dynasty to the H…

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