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Saturn has more moons than any other planet in our solar system. With the recent discovery of 62 new spatial bodies in the system, the ringed planet now has a total of 145 moons, beating Jupiter’s 92, which also increased in February with …

What do you think would happen if we received a message from aliens? Hollywood loves to explore this premise. If you’re my age, you will likely have seen Contact, the 1997 movie based on Carl Sagan’s book of the same name. Luckily, the…

The NYC Media Lab announced new immersive educational content for all US-based educators. Developed in partnership with Verizon for the $1M Museum Initiative, more than 50 free augmented reality (AR)- and virtual reality (VR)-focused lesson…

What happens to NASA satellites after their useful life is complete? One NASA satellite that saw solar flares and helped scientists understand the sun’s powerful bursts of energy fell to Earth this week, approximately 21 years after launch.…

If you're an AI expert drawn to everything about space, here's a challenge for you. The Ariel Data Challenge 2023 is inviting AI and machine learning experts from industry and academia to help astronomers understand exoplanets. Dr. Ingo…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been unlocking many mysteries, and now it's finding multiple galaxies that grew massive too soon after the Big Bang if the standard model of cosmology is to be believed. In a study published in …

A NASA instrument designed to provide unprecedented resolution in monitoring major air pollutants (down to four square miles) was launched on April 7. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument will help improve…

Researchers at Flatiron Institute used artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate the mass of colossal clusters of galaxies. By adding a simple term to an existing equation, scientists can produce far better mass estimates than previously…

On March 29, 2023 (Beijing Time) at 2 am, the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and 40 research institutions worldwide released their discoveries on the brightest Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB 221009A)…

Researchers have now demonstrated how energy disappears in quantum turbulence, and that is critical when understanding turbulence in microscopic to planetary scales. Researchers at Lancaster University conducted a new study of quantum wave…