NASA news: Astronomer explains the importance of brown-dwarf star discovery

Dec 18, 2020 07:34 am UTC| Science

With millions of exoplanets beyond our planetary neighborhood, astronomers have been on the search for an exoplanet just like our own Earth. A NASA astronomer has now revealed why discovering brown-dwarf stars is important...

AI technique that predicts cell growth could someday diagnose cancer or develop new drugs

Dec 17, 2020 11:37 am UTC| Science

Machine learning technologies are everywhere. Theyre used by search engines, social media, and even in online banking. But one area that this technology is still emerging is medicine. Machine learning technologies could...

SpaceX Starship prototype exploded, but it's still a giant leap towards Mars

Dec 17, 2020 11:36 am UTC| Science

Private company SpaceX launched SN8, a prototype of its Starship spacecraft, designed to go to the Moon and Mars, on December 10. Its short flight attracted a great deal of attention for its final few seconds before...

Future cities: new challenges mean we need to reimagine how urban landscapes could look

Dec 17, 2020 11:11 am UTC| Real Estate Science

Imagining future cities has long been a favourite activity for architects, artists and designers. Technology is often central in these schemes it appears as a dynamic and seemingly unstoppable force, providing a neat...

Climate change: Ice melt from Greenland could lead to 18-centimeter rise in sea levels

Dec 17, 2020 06:46 am UTC| Science Nature

The increasing temperatures and melting ice have long indicated the dangers of climate change in the world. With icy regions like Greenland and the Arctic taking the worst hit, a suggests that the ice melt from Greenland...

Mars mission: Starship prototype explosion deemed progress towards future Red Planet missions

Dec 17, 2020 06:37 am UTC| Science

In the years to come, space agencies are already gearing up for the inevitable missions to our neighboring planet of Mars. SpaceX has already been conducting tests for the rocket that would be used for the future Mars...

NASA: Unusual video footage from Apollo 10 mission unearthed

Dec 16, 2020 10:43 am UTC| Science

While NASA made history with its Apollo 11 mission in 1969, several other missions under the Apollo program took place before the actual mission. However, declassified material from the Apollo 10 mission uncovered...