Chinese Air Force J-20 Stealth Fighter Jets Showcase Skills at Air Show in Changchun, Jilin Province. Credit: Yang Pan/China Ministry of Defense. Traditionally, aircraft are designed to be highly visible for safety reasons, except military planes, which prioritize stealth. Various methods have been employed to minimize visibility through materials, design, and technologies to reduce the...
Virtual Incision co-founder Shane Farritor tries his hand at controlling spaceMIRACraig Chandler, UNL Communication and Marketing A team of six doctors in Nebraska has accomplished a surgical robot operation on the International Space Station (ISS). While the procedure was conducted on rubber bands this time, this achievement holds significance for upcoming missions to Mars and...
The depicted crew is not slated to complete a lunar orbit until at least September 2025, and the earliest prospect for human lunar landing won't materialize until the subsequent year. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA has officially confirmed a postponement in the schedule for human Moon landings and lunar orbit missions, with no expected landings until...
THe cat laser videoNASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has elevated cat videos to a new frontier through its Psyche Deep Space Optical Communications experiment, transmitting a 15-second high-definition footage of a playful tabby across a distance of 19 million miles (31 million km) to Earth. Observing a cat pursuing a laser pointer might be endearing, but the question arises:...
Sensory substitution devices translated basic faces and other shapes into auditory waveforms that blind and sighted subjects were trained to recognizeGenerated by DALL-E Neuroscientists have demonstrated that blind individuals use the same brain regions as sighted people to recognize basic faces, even when the facial information is presented through audio rather than the visual cortex....
The DSOC attached to the Psyche deep-space probeNASA NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) unit on the Psyche spacecraft has activated, creating a high-speed laser data link at a distance of 10 million miles (16 million km), equivalent to 40 times the distance from Earth to the Moon. NASA has expressed a strong interest in developing...
Psyche Probe's Deep Space Optical Communications Sets Record for Distant Laser Data Transmission. Credit: ProleR/Shutterstock In a groundbreaking achievement, a deep space experiment conducted aboard NASA's Psyche spacecraft has successfully transmitted a laser message to Earth from a location surpassing the Moon's distance for the first time. The achievement by the Deep Space Optical Communications...
The intended duration of Starship's second test flight was approximately 90 minutes, with the plan for it to conclude by splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawai'i. Credit: SpaceX via X On Saturday morning, SpaceX's Starship rocket embarked on its second test flight, soaring into the sky from Starbase in Texas. However, the triumph...
NASA's asteroid-probing spacecraft, Lucy, has conducted its initial close-up observations, revealing an entirely unexpected find. The asteroid Dinkinesh not only possesses a small orbiting moon but, remarkably, this moon is composed of two objects fused together. Launched in 2021, Lucy is on track to explore more asteroids than any other spacecraft in history. Its primary...
A sizable gray celestial body featuring prominent craters on its exterior and areas of brown material. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU) Psyche asteroid's staggering worth. The asteroid's extraordinary "value" might indicate potential contributions to the emerging space mining sector. You've likely heard about the estimated value of the asteroid 16 Psyche, the focus of NASA's upcoming Psyche...
