Article Published by: cnn.com Stars that have companions aren't always friendly to them, as evidenced by a stellar confrontation witnessed by astronomers. They studied the binary star system, HD101584, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes in Chile to find out what happened. They discovered that the...
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Article Published by: forbes.com African startups raised a record $1.34 billion in venture capital in 2019, up from just under $200 million in 2015, according to WeeTracker, a media firm focused on the African entrepreneurship space. That’s about a 46.3% increase on a compound annual growth...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov The latest Star Wars movie is now playing at an International Space Station (relatively) near you, just weeks after a pair of the film’s actors traveled to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to train like real-life astronauts preparing for missions to...
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Article Published by: dominicantoday.com Concerned about the environment, Don Antonio Ramírez has designed a robotic machine that has the ability to plant trees in desert areas and it can be managed remotely through remote control or via satellite, without the need for a human being to...
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Article Published by: popsci.com Their impossible fluffiness has researchers scratching their heads. With each new alien planet discovered, the astronomical catalog of bizarre worlds and systems swells. “Hot Jupiters” huddle closer to their host stars than Mercury. “Circumbinary” planets circle two stars at once. One “super earth”...
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Article Published by: forbes.com To enable air taxis to operate in the skies over cities, Skyryse CEO Mark Groden says it won’t be enough to match the safety of commercial airliners. They’ll have to be as safe as elevators. That’s just one element of a business...
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Article Published by: Forbes.com Greenland is an unusual choice of travel destination, and for a growing group of people around the world, that’s part of what makes it appealing. Most people have only ever seen Greenland (if they’re lucky) from an airplane flying between Europe and...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov Every night, under the cover of darkness, countless small sea creatures – from squid to krill – swim from the ocean depths to near the surface to feed. This vast animal migration – the largest on the planet and a critical part...
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Article Published by: fastcompany.com With enough time, the technological challenges of sending humans to Mars and beyond are solvable. But psychologically, we’re not ready to leave our home. BY JARED LINDZON In 1945 British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke—now best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey—correctly predicted...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov By Linda Herridge NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center What does it take to lift and stack NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the largest rocket ever built for flight? Weighing in at nearly 225,000 pounds, the core stage of the SLS is one...
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