Black holes are one of the most fascinating phenomena in the universe, and at their heart lies something even more puzzlinga singularity. Continue reading →

The mysterious dark side of the moon is a challenging target for space missions. But China has now completed its second successful touchdown and collected a sample of lunar soil, which is currently on its way back to Earth. The great space powers are currently locked in a race to return humans to the moon and even establish a more permanent presence on our nearest celestial neighbor. Continue reading →

The CEO of Zoom Wants AI Clones in Meetings Nilay Patel | The Verge Like virtually every other company, Zoom now has a big investment in AIand [CEO Eric Yuans] visions for what that AI will do are pretty wild. Continue reading →

On a fall evening in 2022, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory were busy with the final stages of a planetary defense mission. As Andy Rivkin, one of the team leaders, was getting ready to appear in NASAs live broadcast of the experiment, a colleague posted a photo of a pair of asteroids: the half-mile-wide Didymos and, orbiting around it, a smaller one called Dimorphos, taken about 7 million miles from Earth. We were able to see Didymos and this little dot in the right spot where we expected Dimorphos to be, Rivkin recalled Continue reading →

Black holes are some of the most enigmatic objects in the universe, capable of deforming the fabric of space around them so violently that not even light can escape their gravitational grip. But it turns out, much of what scientists know about these mysterious objects could be wrong. Continue reading →