Planned missions to the Moon and Mars require modern communications and navigation systems, prompting NASA officials to solicit ideas through proposals from American companies. On July 7, NASA issued a request for proposals for a “high-performance, highly reliable communications infrastructure”…
The International Space Station will pass over the eastern United States and parts of Canada just after sunset Thursday evening, an event that will be visible to millions of people in those areas. The station will be visible for several…
NASA’s project to develop a quieter supersonic jet has successfully completed preliminary testing when the X-59 was able to taxi at low speed at its California plant. The space agency on Tuesday announced the latest achievement for NASA’s X-59 program,…
NASA’s TRACERS mission is now scheduled to launch Wednesday using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, after SpaceX delayed Tuesday’s launch due to “airspace issues.” SpaceX officials canceled Tuesday’s launch from Vandenberg Space Base in California just 45 seconds before liftoff.…
The heatwave that has hit the central U.S. this week may feel worse than it did at the start of summer, and part of that has to do with corn. It may seem counterintuitive, but the common crop can actually…
Researchers have predicted that the day on Tuesday will be a tiny fraction of a second shorter than usual as the Earth’s rotation speeds up. The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service expects Tuesday to be just 1.34 milliseconds…
Firefighters continue search and rescue efforts among collapsed buildings in Hualien, Taiwan, in 2024. (Image courtesy of the Ministry of the Interior/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) Google has used motion sensors in more than 2 billion mobile devices to create an…
(Image credit: Evgeny Mymrin/Getty Images) Microchips are used in almost all modern devices, from mobile phones and laptops to refrigerators. However, their production is a complex process. Researchers claim to have found a way to use the power of quantum…
(Image credit: koto_feja/Getty Images) Researchers have achieved historic low error rates in quantum computing, a major step toward solving key challenges on the road to practical, industrial-scale quantum computers. In a paper published June 12 in the journal APS Physical…
(Image credit: Corbis Historical via Getty Images) Many years ago, long before the Internet and artificial intelligence became a part of our lives, American engineer Vannevar Bush was looking for ways to solve a problem. He realized how difficult it…