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NASA appoints 1st AI chief to keep agency on ‘the cutting edge’

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Dr. Sarah Adams

NASA has appointed its first-ever chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer, a move designed to ensure that the agency keeps up with a ...

How Solar Storms Cause Colourful Auroras On Earth

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Dr. Sarah Adams

NASA said that because solar flares are light, they reach Earth in about 8 minutes. New Delhi: Auroras illuminated the skies across ...

Levitating robot train on the moon? NASA has a crazy plan

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Dr. Sarah Adams

NASA has some really hair-brained plans, and I mean that in the best way possible. Despite facing some massive delays for its ...

NASA’s Quest to Touch the Sun

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see ...

Mayan Intercropping Could Be Key to Food on Mars

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The international space community has its sights set on humans landing on Mars by the mid-2030s, but a big question remains ...

‘God of Destruction’ asteroid Apophis will come to Earth in 2029 — and it could meet some tiny spacecraft

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Dr. Sarah Adams

In just under half a decade, a 1,000-foot-wide (305-meter-wide) asteroid named after the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, Apophis, will pass ...

Webb Finds Atmosphere on Rocky Exoplanet For the First Time

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists may have identified atmospheric gases on 55 Cancri e, a super-hot, rocky exoplanet. This discovery ...

NASA’s Chandra spacecraft spots supermassive black hole erupting in the Milky Way’s heart

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescope, scientists have discovered a new cosmic “exhaust vent” funneling hot gas away from Sagittarius A* (Sgr ...

When might you see aurora borealis? Northern lights forecast for US

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Sarah Wilson

When to see aurora borealis? Northern lights US forecast Solar flares could cause the northern lights to be visible this weekend across ...

Nasa team led by Indian-origin scientist unravels what is behind superheating of Sun’s mossy region

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Dr. Sarah Adams

NEW DELHI: Mystery has always surrounded how the mossy region on the Sun interlinks with its lower atmospheric layers and undergoes a ...