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NASA Reports Strongest Evidence Yet of Life on Mars
NASA announced it has found the clearest sign so far of ancient microbial life on Mars, based on rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover.
Interim Administrator Sean Duffy said a sample from the Neretva Vallis valley, dubbed…
ISS Captures Stunning Night View of Istanbul
The International Space Station (ISS) photographed Istanbul at night in January 2025, highlighting the illuminated Bosphorus, the city’s new airport, and the Northern Marmara Highway. While the northern parts of…
“Blue Ghost” Spacecraft Launched from US Lands on Moon
After orbiting around it for about 2 weeks, the Blue Ghost spacecraft, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and a private aviation company called Firefly Aerospace on January 15, landed on the surface of the…
Baker, Hassabis and Jumper Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared between David Baker of the University of Washington for his work in computational protein design and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper from Google Deepmind, a British artificial intelligence…
Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 Awarded for Advances in Machine Learning
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Hopfield from Princeton University, USA, and Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto, Canada, for their groundbreaking work on artificial neural networks, which enabled modern…
South Korean Scientists Set New Record in “Artificial Sun” Experiment
South Korean scientists at the Korean Fusion Energy Institute (KFE) achieved a groundbreaking milestone by running the KSTAR nuclear reactor, known as the "artificial sun," at 100 million degrees Celsius for 48 seconds. This achievement,…
Japan’s SLIM Resumes Moon Mission After Glitch
Japan's SLIM spacecraft, which encountered a power supply glitch after landing on the Moon on January 19, is operational again. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) resolved the issue caused by solar panel…
Astrophysicist Umut Yıldız Leaves NASA For Türkiye
Astrophysicist Umut Yıldız has terminated his indefinite contract with NASA and relocated to Türkiye, joining Plan-S company in Ankara. With a decade-long tenure at NASA's 'Jet Propulsion Laboratory,' Yıldız, now working as both an…
SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule Docked With ISS
The Dragon spacecraft, which was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, with four astronauts as part of the "Axiom-3 space mission," docked with the International Space Station after about 36 hours. The Axiom-3 team will be…
Japan’s Spacecraft SLIM Lands on Moon
Japan's unmanned spacecraft called SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon), which was sent into orbit in September to collect topographic information such as the shape of moon craters, made a soft landing on the moon yesterday at around…