Russia’s Soyuz launch to space station aborted at last minute in rare delay

Russia’s Soyuz launch to space station aborted at last minute in rare delay

Launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a cosmonaut commander, a guest flier from Belarus and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson was aborted at the T-minus 20-second mark Thursday, delaying the crew’s planned flight to the International Space Station. With veteran commander Oleg Novitskiy at the controls, flanked on the left by Belarus spaceflight participant Marina … Read more

Asteroid watch: Building-sized asteroid set to pass Earth today by close margin, reveals NASA

Asteroid watch: Building-sized asteroid set to pass Earth today by close margin, reveals NASA

NASA says as many as four asteroids passed Earth yesterday and all of them did so by close distances. The biggest of them was Asteroid 2024 BD7 which had a width of almost 140 feet, making it almost as big as an aircraft. Now, the US Space Agency has revealed that just one asteroid has … Read more

First U.S. moon landing since 1972 as private spacecraft touches down on lunar surface

First U.S. moon landing since 1972 as private spacecraft touches down on lunar surface

Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander touched down on the moon Thursday after a historic, nail-biting descent following a last-minute navigation sensor malfunction, becoming the first U.S.-built spacecraft to stick a moon landing in more than 50 years and the first ever by a private company. After delaying the final descent by one orbit to press an experimental NASA navigation … Read more

New Federal Program Aims To Democratize AI Research And Development

New Federal Program Aims To Democratize AI Research And Development

This is the published version of Forbes’ CIO newsletter, which offers the latest news for chief innovation officers and other technology-focused leaders. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox every Thursday. Since President Joe Biden issued his executive order about AI in October, there’s been a lot of talk about how to regulate … Read more

Latest Hubble Space Telescope glitch forces NASA to switch on safe mode, pause research

Latest Hubble Space Telescope glitch forces NASA to switch on safe mode, pause research

NASA’s iconic space telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, is currently undergoing a temporary pause in its scientific operations. According to NASA, this temporary pause occurred due to a gyroscope issue that forced NASA to trigger the safe mode on November 23. NASA is now working to get the Hubble Space Telescope to resume its operations. … Read more

Ubisoft gets put on blast for posting AI-generated art of Assassin’s Creed

Ubisoft gets put on blast for posting AI-generated art of Assassin’s Creed

Ubisoft has been caught up in a recent controversy with thousands of people calling out the company for using AI-generated art to market Assassin’s Creed. The extremely successful Assassin’s Creed franchise has recently come under fire from fans who are accusing Ubisoft of using artwork generated by an artificial intelligence-powered tool such as DALL-E, to … Read more

Earth to suffer direct CME hit, new NASA model reveals; To spark solar storm and auroras

Earth to suffer direct CME hit, new NASA model reveals; To spark solar storm and auroras

Yesterday, the NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) detected a coronal mass ejection (CME) that appeared to be coming towards the Earth. The early assessment revealed that it could hit the Earth in the late hours of November 11, although it wasn’t clear whether the strike would be a direct one or a glancing blow. … Read more

Boeing powers historic lunar exploration with SLS, scripts new chapter in NASA’s Artemis program

Boeing powers historic lunar exploration with SLS, scripts new chapter in NASA’s Artemis program

In the world of human space exploration, Boeing has stood as a big force, propelling advancements for over six decades. Now, with the NASA Artemis program, Boeing is set to make history by contributing to the landing of the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon. This ambitious initiative also marks … Read more

NASA shares breathtaking image of aurora taken from space station | Technology News

NASA shares breathtaking image of aurora taken from space station | Technology News

News Technology Science NASA shares breathtaking image of aurora taken from space station NASA shared this incredible image of an aurora taken from the International Space Station. This image was taken as the International Space Station was soaring above the state of Utah in the United States. (NASA / Instagram) Listen to this article Your … Read more

NASA’s Kepler Telescope reveals 7 searingly hot exoplanets orbiting a star

NASA’s Kepler Telescope reveals 7 searingly hot exoplanets orbiting a star

You may have heard a lot about the iconic Hubble Space Telescope and the famous James Webb Space Telescope, but NASA has an array of other telescopes that have rendered yeoman’s service and one of them is the Kepler Space Telescope. NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, which retired in 2018, remains a source of scientific discovery … Read more