Credit: PixabayA rare celestial spectacle is set to illuminate Earth’s night skies. On the evening of February 28, 2025, all seven other planets in the Solar System—Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars—will align in a striking row. This breathtaking event, known as a great planetary alignment, promises a stunning visual treat.Six Planets...
Subaru is now the most reliable car brandSubaruConsumer Reports has released its 2024 brand reliability report, revealing that while the top five brands remain unchanged from last year, Subaru has claimed the top position, now recognized as the most reliable car brand.That's correct—Toyota and its sub-brand Lexus are no longer the leaders in reliability....
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabAstrophysicists have detected the highest-energy electrons ever recorded, raining down on Earth from a mysterious nearby source. These cosmic rays carry trillions of times the energy of visible light, suggesting they originate from a powerful source relatively close to our solar system.Earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic radiation,...
eVTOL aircraft, such as the Supernal S-A2 shown here, will benefit greatly from breakthroughs in battery concepts that reduce weight and increase energy density Hyundai Motor GroupResearchers at Monash University in Australia are nearing a breakthrough in addressing one of the major challenges faced by eVTOL aircraft. Their new lithium-sulfur battery technology aims to provide about twice...
Starship in orbitSpaceXSpaceX's Starship Flight 6 launched today, missing a second capture landing for the Super Heavy first stage. However, it featured a dramatic daylight soft landing of the Starship second stage in the Indian Ocean—along with a banana.Today's mission experienced an unusually smooth countdown for an experimental development flight, with the final hold...
The Super Heavy about to be capturedSpaceXThe world watched in awe as SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster made a historic achievement with the first-ever tower capture landing following the Starship 5 mission launch. However, few realized just how close the event came to disaster—within just one second.This capture of Super Heavy, the massive first stage...
Credit: pixabayThe planet Jupiter has no solid ground—no surface, like the grass or dirt we walk on here on Earth. There’s nowhere to land or walk on.But how is that possible? If Jupiter has no surface, then what does it have? How does it hold together?Even for a physics professor who studies unusual phenomena,...
(JIJI PRESS/AFP/Japan OUT)Wooden Satellite Launched into SpaceIts Japanese creators announced on Tuesday that they launched the first-ever wooden satellite into space aboard a SpaceX rocket. This satellite is part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).Scientists at Kyoto University developed the satellite, designing it to burn up entirely upon re-entering Earth’s...
Interacting galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163, in a composite image combining Hubble and JWST data. (NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI)Abyss Gazing Back: Nietzsche's Prophetic Words in Space"The abyss also looks back into you," said German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in 1886. His words feel almost prophetic as we gaze, nearly 140 years later, at an image from 80 million...
(Nobel Prize Outreach/Alexander Mahmoud)If you've enjoyed an AI-generated video, fraud protection, or voice-to-text, you can thank scientists like physicist John Hopfield and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton. On Oct. 8, 2024, they received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work on artificial neural networks, which, though inspired by biology, relied heavily on statistical...
