New images reveal an asteroid that just whizzed by Earth has an unexpected companion
NASA scientists recently tracked two asteroids that passed close to Earth in late June using radar from the Deep Space Network. One asteroid, called 2011 UL21, was discovered to have a small moonlet orbiting it. Binaries like this are thought to form after two asteroids collide. The other asteroid, 2024 MK, was only discovered 13 […]
Elon Musk’s liquid-cooled ‘Gigafactory’ AI data centers get a plug from Supermicro CEO — Tesla and xAI’s new supercomputers will have 350,000 Nvidia GPUs, both will be online within months
Elon Musk is building two large AI supercomputer clusters – one at Tesla’s Gigafactory and another for his company xAI. The Gigafactory cluster will contain 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and is nearing completion. It is expected to draw up to 500MW of power. xAI’s supercomputer will contain over 300,000 Nvidia GPUs and is also nearly completed. […]
Mars orbiter captures Red Planet scar that’s longer than the Grand Canyon
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter captured new images of a long, snaking scar on Mars called Aganippe Fossa. At 600 km long, Aganippe Fossa is longer than the Grand Canyon on Earth. It is a type of geological feature known as a graben, formed by cracks in Mars’ crust caused by magma rising […]