We were wrong about how the moon’s largest and oldest crater formed — and that’s great news for NASA’s next lunar landing
The largest and oldest crater on the moon did not form as we initially suspected, a new study suggests. The findings hint that a specific region of the lunar surface could be more scientifically interesting than we thought — with big implications for NASA's upcoming...
A woman’s nausea was triggered by a huge mass in her stomach — which doctors dissolved with diet soda
The patient: A 63-year-old woman in Massachusetts The symptoms: The patient went to the emergency department after experiencing nausea and vomiting for about a month, along with decreased appetite. She told doctors that she'd also experienced a burning pain in her...
Google to invest $15bn to build AI data hub in India
Google's parent company Alphabet will invest $15bn (£11.29bn) to build an AI data hub in southern India's Andhra Pradesh state. The facility, which will be set up in the port city of Visakhapatnam, will be part of Google's global network of AI centres spread across 12...
Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool
Manufacturing better batteries, faster electronics, and more effective pharmaceuticals depends on the discovery of new materials and the verification of their quality. Artificial intelligence is helping with the former, with tools that comb through catalogs of...
Optimizing food subsidies: Applying digital platforms to maximize nutrition
Oct. 16 is World Food Day, a global campaign to celebrate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization 80 years ago, and to work toward a healthy, sustainable, food-secure future. More than 670 million people in the world are facing hunger. Millions of others...
SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket for moon and Mars on 11th test flight (video)
That's two in a row for Starship. SpaceX's Starship , the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, aced a suborbital test flight today (Oct. 13), following up on a similar success in late August. Today's mission, which lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase site in...
Aurora alert! 4 coronal mass ejections are racing toward Earth and could spark impressive northern lights this week
A train of solar storms is barreling toward Earth, with four coronal mass ejections (CMEs) expected to hit over the next few days. Any potential impact could trigger impressive auroras in northern skies and possibly even at mid-latitudes. Multiple CMEs launched from...
Citizen scientists just discovered the most powerful ‘odd radio circle’ twins in space we’ve ever seen
Citizen scientists have found several new "odd radio circles
Rocket Lab launches private Japanese Earth-imaging satellite to orbit (video)
Rocket Lab launched a radar satellite for Synspective today (Oct. 14), the seventh spacecraft it has lofted for the Japanese Earth-observation company to date. An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site today at 12:33 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT; 5:33a.m....
Strange ‘puffy’ alien world breaks every rule for how planets should behave
If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI-4507 b. This strange world, which sits about 578 light-years from the solar system, breaks almost every known rule for how planets should behave. First off, it orbits a very young star...