When solar storms and coronal mass ejections hit Earth and create the Northern Lights, people are physically protected from radiation by Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere.
U.S. spacecraft snap stunning views of auroras encircling Earth
Satellites in orbit above Earth recently captured vivid auroras, or Northern Lights, above the North Pole. The spectacle reached places where the natural lights are rarely seen.
U.S. spacecraft snap stunning views of auroras encircling Earth
Satellites in orbit above Earth recently captured vivid auroras, or Northern Lights, above the North Pole. The spectacle reached places where the natural lights are rarely seen.
Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt
Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. […]
NASA shows how it will talk to spacecraft over 15 billion miles away
NASA will use an array of six large antennas to receive science data from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has traveled farther than any other human spacecraft.
Spacecraft approaches metal object zooming around Earth, snaps footage
A spacecraft on a space junk removal mission approached a derelict Japanese rocket, capturing unique imagery of the debris in preparation to remove it from Earth’s orbit.
NASA shows how Mars helicopter did the impossible, and then crashed
NASA created a map showing the historic path of its Mars Ingenuity helicopter, which flew over 70 times before crashing into the Martian desert.
Voyager spacecraft gave us a scare. But NASA’s bringing it back to life.
NASA revealed that for the first time in five months it can check the status of its Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has traveled deeper into space than any other mission.
The farthest-away pictures of Earth ever taken
NASA spacecraft have captured a number of distant images of Earth, including a famous shot from billions of miles away. Here’s our humble planet seen from deep space.