NASA’s Perseverance rover has completed its first Mars drive fully planned by artificial intelligence, demonstrating that generative AI can autonomously map safe routes across the planet’s rugged terrain. Conducted in December 2025, the AI analyzed images and terrain data, identified hazards like rocks and slopes, and set navigation waypoints—tasks normally done by human planners on Earth. During the two test drives, Perseverance traveled nearly 1,500 … Continue reading NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover completes its 1st drive planned by AI

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has launched a two-year mission to map the heliosphere, the protective bubble around our solar system formed by the sun. The probe studies high-energy solar particles, interplanetary magnetic fields, and cosmic dust from distant stars to better understand the sun’s activity and its interaction with interstellar space. Scientists hope IMAP will shed light on how charged particles are … Continue reading NASA begins mission to map the boundaries of our heliosphere

The sun has recently emitted several strong solar flares, prompting experts to watch for northern lights and potential satellite disruptions. On Sunday and Monday, NASA recorded four X-class flares—the most intense type—with one reaching X8.1, the strongest in several years. These flares can briefly disrupt high-frequency communications on the sunlit side of Earth and may precede Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). When interacting with Earth’s atmosphere, … Continue reading Sun releases 4 strong solar flares

Blue Origin is pausing flights of its New Shepard suborbital spacecraft, which has carried 98 people, including paying customers and celebrities, to the edge of space since its first human launch in July 2021. Each roughly ten-minute mission reaches the Kármán line about 62 miles above Earth before returning safely to West Texas. The company says the suspension, lasting at least two years, will allow … Continue reading Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on lunar lander

The sun has unleashed an intense burst of activity over the past 24 hours, producing at least 18 M-class flares and three X-class flares, including an X8.3—the strongest solar flare of 2026 so far. The eruptions originated from rapidly growing sunspot region AR4366, described by scientists as a “solar flare factory.” The X8.3 flare caused strong radio blackouts across parts of the South Pacific, affecting … Continue reading Sun unleashes extraordinary solar flare barrage as new volatile sunspot turns toward Earth