Category Science and Technology

Sean Duffy, acting NASA administrator and transportation secretary, is pushing to speed up the installation of a nuclear reactor on the moon, according to a directive he issued Thursday. As Politico, The New York Times and The Independent report, NASA…

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission to the Moon ended in failure after the agency lost contact with the spacecraft just a day after its launch in February and was unable to re-establish contact despite best efforts. The mission was finally concluded…

Team Aoki’s RaceBird glides on hydrofoils during free practice in Doha on February 21. (Photo: Dan Baty/Spacesuit Media)

(Image credit: CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) Researchers from IBM and Moderna have successfully used a quantum simulation algorithm to predict the complex secondary structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA protein—the longest ever simulated on a quantum computer. Messenger…

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who led the Apollo 13 moon mission, died Thursday in Illinois, his family said. He was 97. Lovell also flew on three other missions: Gemini 7, Gemini 12, and Apollo 8 in the 1960s, becoming the first…

The four members of Crew 11 joined seven other astronauts on the International Space Station early Saturday morning after a 15-hour flight from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut…

SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station took place Friday after a cancellation on Thursday. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov arrived at the launch complex…

The Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” – an area lacking oxygen – is smaller than previous measurements and projections, scientists working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday. The Gulf’s dead zone is 4,402 square miles, down 21…

SpaceX’s Crew 11 mission to the International Space Station was canceled shortly before liftoff on Thursday. The launch, which was scheduled to take place from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, was canceled due to adverse weather forecasts in the launch…

The U.S. Defense Department will not complete the distribution of critical satellite weather data on Friday as previously planned. A month ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a notice of change that was supposed to go into effect…