‘We are ready to drive’: Take a look inside Lunar Outpost’s moon rover mission control (photos)
The rovr’s design is “a mix between a dune buggy and a heavy-duty truck.”
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NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Space Weather Missions
From left to right, NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) missions will map our Sun’s influence across the solar system in new…
NASA Awards Safety, Mission Assurance Services Contract
Credit: NASA NASA has selected Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide safety and mission assurance services for the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Safety and Mission Assurance II (SMAS II) award is a performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity…
We can finally predict when Mars’ skies will glow green with auroras, scientists say
“The fact that we captured the aurora again demonstrates that our method for predicting aurorae on Mars and capturing them works.”
How name, image, and likeness policies boost college football’s competitive balance
A study published in Management Science challenges conventional wisdom about name, image, and likeness (NIL) policies in college football, demonstrating they actively enhance competitive balance and broaden opportunities for athletes.
Modern plastics form an important archaeological record, argue researchers
It is often seen as the scourge of modern society, littering our highways, byways and beaches. But now a new study argues that modern plastics are also a valuable archive documenting activities and behaviors at a crucial time in our…
Navigating the knowledge paradox: Why having some answers can be worse than having none
Chess is a strategic game characterized by temporal complexity—wherein the goodness of a move is unclear due to a separation between action and outcome. Likewise, many organizational decisions do not yield instant consequences, leading to temporally complex problems.
The oldest mummies in the world may hail from southeastern Asia and date back 12,000 years
Scientists have discovered what’s thought to be the oldest known mummies in the world in southeastern Asia dating back up to 12,000 years.
Inquiry into the history of science shows an early ‘inherence’ bias
Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in water—centered on presumed inherent properties rather than external factors, thereby misleading famous philosophers and scientists, from Aristotle to Scottish botanist Robert Brown, in…
See Jupiter and the moon join the Gemini twins in the predawn sky on Sept. 16
The crescent moon will shine with Jupiter among the stars of Gemini early on Sept. 16.