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A group of amateur astronomer captured a NASA crash
NASA’s DART mission last year deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a test of planetary defence. Last year, images were taken as DART approached Dimorphos, an asteroid covered in boulders. “It means that we can quickly design a mission to deflect an asteroid if there’s a threat, and we know that this has…
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Will an machine be the first to find alien life?
Researchers at the SETI Institute in the US used machine-learning algorithms to analyse data from the Robert C Byrd Green Bank Telescope to identify eight candidates for alien signals. They then manually reviewed around 20,000 signals before narrowing them down to eight intriguing candidates. Machine-learning algorithms are used to distinguish signals from technology in other…