Nasa Pic of the Day Oct 150
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 15, 2016
Shown sitting near the top of a mountain in Hawaii, the dome of the Gemini Observatory North houses one of two identical 8.1-meter diameter telescopes.

Shown sitting near the top of a mountain in Hawaii, the dome of the Gemini Observatory North houses one of two identical 8.1-meter diameter telescopes.

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Boeing chief executive officer Dennis Muilenburg and SpaceX founder Elon Musk both have Mars dreams. But who will get there first?

Many of the world’s richest and most powerful people, including Elon Musk and Bank of America, think that we live in a simulation of the real world

The Z-2 spacesuit is NASA’s new equipment to traverse the vast landscape of Mars.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded for the design and synthesis of the world’s smallest machines. The work has overtones of science fiction, but holds huge promise in fields as diverse as medicine, materials and energy.

A top U.S. general has issued a sobering warning that both China and Russia, given their years of emphasis on upgrading and renovating their space war arsenals, could, in the future, place the United States in a position of weakness if matters were to degenerate into a state of war between the countries.

The largest radio telescope in the world officially opened on Sunday, according to China’s official Xinhua News.

“The big issue over the next 5 to 10 years is going to become how far do we go in pursuit of the perfect baby,”

Though ancient cultures often saw comets as harbingers of doom, the cosmic “dirty snowballs” are now viewed as important objects that could help scientists learn more about the early evolution of the solar system.



