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The Office of the Inspector General of NASA (OIG) published a report yesterday (July 16) that analyzes the management of the agency’s Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle Program. Among the findings, the OIG determined that Orion – The next-generation capsule that will take NASA astronauts to the moon and other deep-space …

The Atacama cosmology telescope measures the oldest light in the universe, known as the cosmic microwave background. Using those measurements, scientists can calculate the age of the universe. Credit: Image courtesy of Debra Kellner. The findings from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope suggest that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. …

Multi-stage coral colony bleaching and mortality, Great Barrier Reef, 2017 Credit: Australian Institute of Marine Sciences / Chris Brunner Coral reefs are dying at an alarming rate as water temperatures rise worldwide as a result of global warming, pollution, and human activities. In the past three decades, half of Australia’s …

The researchers have developed a small wireless camera that is light enough to be carried by live beetles. The team at the University of Washington in the US was inspired by insects to create their low-power camera system. Your beetle can transmit up to five frames per second of low-resolution …

China’s first homegrown Mars mission, Tianwen-1, launched today to its launch pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China’s Hainan Province (July 17). A Largo March-5 The rocket will launch Tianwen-1 in late July or early August, according to the China National Space Administration. It is speculated that …