World’s fastest camera captures footage at 156 trillion frames per second

– Scientists have created the world’s fastest camera that can capture footage at 156 trillion frames per second. This breaks the previous record of 70 trillion frames per second.   – The camera uses a novel optical technique to capture 132 frames from a single pulse from an ultrafast laser. This allows it to record […]

Sierra Space wants to drop cargo from orbit to anywhere on Earth in 90 minutes

– Sierra Space has unveiled a new concept called Ghost for rapid on-demand cargo delivery from low Earth orbit to anywhere on the ground within 90 minutes. – Ghost involves modular cargo units loaded with pre-determined supplies that are launched into orbit. They can wait up to 5 years before being called down to Earth. […]

NASA Quietly Training Robot Dog to Navigate Landscape of the Moon

– NASA is training a four-legged robot dog called Spirit to navigate the terrain on the Moon as part of a project called LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Systems for Surface and Space through Innovation Engineering).   – Researchers took Spirit to test environments in Oregon like Mount Hood to have it adapt its locomotion in real-time […]

Argentina’s Milei meets Elon Musk at Tesla factory

– Argentine President Javier Milei met with Elon Musk at a Tesla factory in Austin, Texas on April 13, 2024. – They both expressed support for free markets and agreed on the need to defend liberty and eliminate bureaucratic obstacles to business. – Musk and Milei also discussed opportunities for Tesla to invest in Argentina’s […]

Antarctica is covered in volcanoes, could they erupt?

Antarctica is covered by a large ice sheet but beneath the ice are numerous volcanoes, including 138 identified under the western ice sheet alone. Currently, the only two known active volcanoes in Antarctica are Mount Erebus and Deception Island. Mount Erebus has been continually erupting since the 1970s with strombolian eruptions and a persistent lava […]

Total solar eclipse reveals tiny new comet moments before it was destroyed by the sun

During the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, an amateur astronomer discovered a tiny comet near the Sun, called SOHO-5008, using the coronagraph on NASA’s SOHO spacecraft. An astronomer predicted the comet could be visible during the eclipse totality, and another amateur astronomer was able to photograph it during totality in New Hampshire, making […]