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Los Angeles, United States | AFP | A huge black hole is tearing through space, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long trail of newborn stars, space scientists say. The supermassive monster — likely born of a bizarre game of intergalactic billiards — is rampaging through the blackness and plowing into gas clouds in its path. The incredible forces at play mean this gas is being forged into a contrail of new stars, which have been captured on […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — SpaceX plans to carry out a launch rehearsal next week of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, and its first test flight possibly the following week, the private space company said Thursday. SpaceX published photos of the massive Starship, which is designed to eventually send astronauts to the Moon and beyond, on its launchpad at the company’s base in Texas. “Starship fully stacked at Starbase,” SpaceX said in a […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Beijing has asked the United States, Japan and the Netherlands to confirm the existence of an alleged agreement between the three countries to curb semiconductor exports to China, state media reported Wednesday. Beijing’s representatives issued the request during a regular meeting this week at the World Trade Organization (WTO), according to a state television broadcast. Representatives demanded that the three countries “notify the WTO of the agreement and subsequent measures, and […]
by Juliette Collen and Daniel Lawler Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the four most distant galaxies ever observed, one of which formed just 320 million years after the Big Bang when the universe was still in its infancy, new research said on Tuesday. The Webb telescope has unleashed a torrent of scientific discovery since becoming operational last year, peering farther than ever before into the universe’s […]
Canada announced Tuesday it has opened an investigation into the US-based software firm behind ChatGPT, the buzzy artificial intelligence chatbot. The investigation by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner into OpenAI was opened in response to a “complaint alleging the collection, use and disclosure of personal information without consent,” the agency said. Launched in November, OpenAI’s chatbot uses information available online to provide detailed answers to users’ queries. ChatGPT caused a global sensation when it […]
by Moisés ÁVILA Agence France-Presse Houston, United States (AFP) NASA unveiled the crew on Monday for its first human mission to the Moon in more than 50 years –- including the first woman and Black man to voyage into deep space. Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut who holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, will be a mission specialist on next year’s Artemis II flight around the Moon. NASA’s Victor Glover, […]
Houston, United States (AFP) NASA is to reveal the names on Monday of the astronauts — three Americans and a Canadian — who will fly around the Moon next year, a prelude to returning humans to the lunar surface for the first time in a half century. The mission, Artemis II, is scheduled to take place in November 2024 with the four-person crew circling the Moon but not landing on it. As part of the […]
San Francisco, United States (AFP) — Research laboratory Midjourney has paused free trials of its image-generation software after users cranked out realistic deepfakes including of former US president Donald Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis in a puffer jacket. Midjourney responded to a request Thursday for a trial with a message saying it could not be provided and to try again another day. The imagery created using the artificial intelligence platform, particularly those of Trump […]
Paris, France | AFP | by Daniel Lawler One of the largest black holes ever recorded has been discovered using a new technique that could spot thousands more of the insatiable celestial monsters in the coming years, according to astronomers. The ultramassive black hole, one of just four ever observed, is more than 30 billion times the mass of the Sun, a new study said. It is the first black hole ever observed using […]
by Léa PERNELLE Freiberg, Germany (AFP) Researcher Anna Vanderbruggen peers into a vat of dark bubbling liquid, the result of a process she has developed to recover graphite from old lithium-ion batteries. Although graphite represents up to a quarter of the weight of the batteries, no one has yet come up with a viable plan to recycle it, according to Vanderbruggen. The 29-year-old researcher is still fine-tuning her method but has already received an award […]
Paris, France (AFP) — Scientists said Monday they have discovered water inside tiny beads of glass scattered across the Moon, suggesting that one day it could be extracted and used by the “explorers of tomorrow”. The Moon was long believed to be dry, but over the last few decades several missions have shown there is water both on the surface and trapped inside minerals. Mahesh Anand, a professor of planetary science and exploration at the […]
by Juliette Collen Paris, France (AFP) The James Webb Space Telescope has measured the temperature of a rocky exoplanet for the first time, finding that a “cousin” of Earth most likely lacks an atmosphere, researchers said Monday. When the Trappist-1 system was discovered in 2017, astronomers were excited at the prospect that some of its seven rocky planets — which are roughly similar to Earth in size and mass — could be habitable. Just 40 […]
