Astro

Conquering The Final Frontier…

[NVIDIA Healthcare @NVIDIAHealth]

👋 Say hello to faster structure prediction

NVIDIA BioNeMo Inference Runtime is in public beta. This open, PyTorch-native library speeds up biomolecular inference on NVIDIA GPUs.

Optimize models including Boltz-2, OpenFold2, and Protenix v2 with specialized kernels and, where supported, CUDA Graphs - then scale with Ray-powered GPU replicas.

🙌 Huge thanks to our collaborators at @apheris_AI, @AurekaBio, @Biomap_IMI, @boltz_bio, @dataiku, @UWproteindesign, @Latent_Labs, MoleculeMind, @nebiusai, @openmsf, @open_fold, @proximabio, @SandboxAQ, @Terray_Tx, and @Xaira_Thera for partnering with us on this work.

📃 https://t.co/JodmVs2s1t

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We’re launching AlphaGenome Atlas: an AI-powered searchable database mapping the predicted impact of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes.

Here’s how it could help researchers better understand our biology 🧵

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

The future

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

@elonmusk I support antimatter propulsion.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interview with SpaceX CFO

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Powering the next giant leap.

A novel electromagnetic thruster that runs on lithium metal vapor was successfully fired up for the first time during initial tests at JPL.

Fully developed and paired with a nuclear power source, these thrusters could reduce launch mass and support payloads required for human Mars missions.

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

What's especially cool is that the flagellar motor exploits the indivisibility of 5 by 2 to run on a fuel of rising entropy as protons diffuse into cells. For me as a physics and math person, this is biology at its best. https://t.co/TBAP5H3vR3

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."

Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

One day, we will be out there, among the stars

[NASA @NASA]

It's not just a phase 🌕

Artemis II astronauts captured these views of the Moon as the Orion spacecraft flew around the far side of the Moon on April 6, 2026.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

Moon stuns in the latest video released by NASA!

[Mathsboi42 @mathsboi42]

There are currently people on the other side of this thing

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

POV: You're flying by the Moon.

This visualization is designed to show you what exactly the Artemis II astronauts will see outside their window during their lunar flyby.

Here, the seven-hour visualization is compressed into 28 seconds. ⬇ (1/4)

[NASA @NASA]

One last look at Earth before we reach the Moon.

This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fourth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Don’t know exactly how to phrase this but I truly believe that this is why kindness and acceptance will win, and fear and anger will lose

[BSF 🇬🇧🐀 @BSF42069]

We’ve come a long way