Scientists said the aurora occurred on March 18, 2024, when super-energetic particles from the sun encountered the Martian atmosphere, precipitating a reaction that created a faint glow across the entire night sky.

With massive government backing and rapid AI advances, China pushes to automate factories and counter labour shortages.

Called LUPIN, the project is part of a programme by the European Space Agency to test new positioning, navigation and timing techniques as interest in lunar surface exploration picks up again

The deal, which would be OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date, would complement ChatGPT’s coding capabilities.

US budget outlines released on Friday called for phasing out NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion crew vehicle, which includes a key service module supplied by Europe’s Airbus on behalf of ESA.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) said late on Wednesday that the final component of the system - the central solenoid - had been completed and tested by the United States, and assembly was now underway.

Mission kicks off race to rival SpaceX’s massive Starlink network

Iran has in the past accused its arch-foe Israel of being behind cyber attacks.

South Korea’s privacy watchdog said Hangzhou DeepSeek AI Co Ltd failed to obtain user consent when transferring personal data to firms in China and the US during its January launch in South Korea.

The world’s second largest economy is aiming to become a major space power and land astronauts on the moon by 2030.

The crew members will conduct space science and application experiments, install a space debris protection device as well as extravehicular payload and equipment, and perform recovery tasks.

The winning robot was Tiangong Ultra, from the Beijing Innovation Center of Human Robotics, with a time of 2 hours and 40 minutes. The men’s winner of the race had a time of 1 hour and 2 minutes.

The effort comes after Chinese universities launched AI courses and widened enrolment after the DeepSeek startup drew global attention in January.

The export controls threaten Nvidia's business in China, one of its largest markets.

The attacks targeted information systems such as the Asian Winter Games registration system and stored “sensitive information about the identities of relevant personnel of the event,” Chinese state news agency Xinhua said.

The six-person crew also included Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez, CBS host Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, scientist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

The case is one of five where the US Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice accuse Big Tech companies of maintaining illegal monopolies.

The funding illustrates renewed interest from the big tech and infrastructure providers in making strategic investments in the startups developing cutting-edge AI that requires massive amounts of computing power.

The planet is believed to have been from a class called “hot Jupiters” - gas giants at high temperatures owing to a tight orbit around their host star.

Confirmed Denisovan fossils now have been identified from three places - the Penghu Channel, Denisova Cave in Russia and the Tibetan Plateau in China’s Gansu province