International Fusion Ministerial Convenes in Vienna as Global Investments Reach 14 Billion DollarsGlobal Fusion Capital Surpasses Fourteen Billion Dollars On November 12, 2026, the International Atomic Energy Agency convened the inaugural ministerial session of the World Fusion Energy Group in…
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Detects Candidate Dwarf Planet 2026 ED138 in Kuiper Belt with Precovery to 1937On November 13, 2026, scientific teams operating the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile announced the detection and orbital confirmation of candidate dwarf planet 2026 ED138;
COP31 Talks Hit Friction in Antalya as Public Climate Finance Pledges Plunge 70%Week one of the COP31 UN climate summit in Antalya, Turkey closed on November 13, 2026, amid deepening friction over funding.
Axiom Space Completes Critical Design Review with NASA for Artemis III Lunar Spacesuit Advancing to ManufacturingOn November 13, 2026, NASA and Axiom Space announced that the AxEMU spacesuit for the Artemis III crewed lunar landing mission completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) and received authorization to…
United Launch Alliance Scrubs Vulcan Rocket Flight for 40 Amazon Leo Broadband SatellitesUnited Launch Alliance postponed the return-to-flight mission of its Vulcan Centaur rocket on Friday morning.
SpaceX Prepares Starship Flight 15 for Historic Double Tower Catch AttemptBlock 3 Vehicles Target Orbital Satellite Deployment STARBASE, Texas — SpaceX entered the final 24-hour countdown on Thursday, November 12, 2026, for Starship Flight 15, targeting liftoff no earlier…
SpaceX Secures FAA Launch License Approval for Starship Flight 6 Targeting November 19 LiftoffSpaceX announced operational milestones for its Starship flight program on November 13, 2026, confirming the Federal Aviation Administration issued the statutory commercial space launch license…
Study Finds Earth's Ionosphere Supplied 85% of Charged Ions During May 2024 Solar SuperstormEarth's own upper atmosphere supplied roughly 85% of the charged particles fueling the extreme May 2024 solar superstorm, according to a Nagoya University-led study reported on November 13, 2026.
Simons Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert Reaches Full Operations to Probe Early UniverseThe Simons Observatory in northern Chile's Atacama Desert reached full operational status on November 12 Positioned at an altitude of five thousand two hundred meters on Cerro Toco, the facility…
Astronomers Discover Distant Dwarf Planet Candidate 2026 ED138 Beyond Pluto Using Rubin ObservatoryLA SERENA, Chile — An international team of astrophysicists announced on Thursday, November 12, 2026, the discovery of a distant dwarf planet candidate, 2026 ED138.
NASA Voyager 1 Approaches Historic One Light-Day Milestone From EarthPASADENA, Calif. — NASA mission trackers updated countdown telemetry on Thursday, November 12, 2026.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Synchronizes Science Instruments Ahead of 2027 LaunchThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced a technical milestone for its flagship astrophysics observatory on Friday.
NASA Scientists Show LISA Gravitational Waves Can Reveal Hidden ExoplanetsTriangle Laser Array Targets Undetected Planets Around Tight White Dwarf Pairs NASA astrophysicists published two new studies in The Astrophysical Journal this week demonstrating how LISA could…
Astronomers Deploy Digital Twin of James Webb Space Telescope to Unmask Hidden ExoplanetAn international astrophysical collaboration announced a breakthrough planetary detection on Friday achieved through computational optics.
NASA's Hubble Captures Cosmic Sampler of Gravitational Lenses to Guide Roman Space TelescopeEinstein Rings and Quadruple Images Reveal Cosmic Magnifying Glasses NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center released a striking nine-panel collage of strong gravitational lenses captured by the Hubble…
EU Economy Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fall 0.5 Percent in Q2 While GDP Grows 0.8 PercentSeasonally adjusted greenhouse gas emissions across the EU economy declined 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2026 to 833 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents, down from 837 million tonnes in the…
ESA Euclid Space Telescope Releases Landmark Survey Mapping Over 900 Million GalaxiesThe European Space Agency released its first batch of scientific data from the Euclid space telescope on Thursday.
NRC Grants Construction Permit for Dow and X-energy Advanced Nuclear Project in TexasFirst Industrial Advanced Reactor Permit in Decades The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a construction permit on November 9, 2026, for Dow and X-energy's Long Mott Generating Station at…
Brown Engineers Overcome 'Dead Layer' Barrier in Ultrathin Magnetic Chip Material布朗大学工程师在《Nature Materials》报告，超薄铁酸铋（BiFeO3）薄膜在仅几埃厚度下仍保留可切换电极化与磁性；此前把多铁薄膜缩至原子尺度会破坏这些特性。该研究于周四获ScienceDaily报道。据布朗大学与Superpower Daily周五报道，铁酸铋属耦合电、磁状态的多铁材料；薄膜减薄会因结构畸变和内部干扰电场产生死层，器件微缩多年受阻。…
NASA Voyager 1 Reactivates Backup Radio Transmitter Unused Since 1981 Following Fault RecoveryAutonomous Fault Protection Halts Primary X-Band as S-Band Signal Traverses 24 Billion Kilometers NASA announced on November 15, 2026, that flight controllers restored regular communications with…
GSI Darmstadt Measures Exotic Bound-State Beta Decay of Thallium Ions Resolving Early Solar System TimelineFully Stripped Thallium Ions Undergo Bound-State Decay Inside Experimental Storage Ring An international nuclear astrophysics research team published definitive experimental measurements on November…
SpaceX Clears Flight Readiness Review for Historic Starship Flight 15 Dual-Catch AttemptSpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration concluded the formal Flight Readiness Review for Starship Flight 15 on November 11 at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas.
OHSU Researchers Discover Rare Genetic Mutation Protecting Against Parkinson's DiseaseChristchurch mutation prevents DNA breaks in dopamine neurons The investigation was led by Dr. Vivek Unni and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Carlos Soto-Faguas at the OHSU School of Medicine.
NASA Europa Clipper Spacecraft Completes Critical Trajectory Maneuver En Route to JupiterNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced on November 11, 2026, that Europa Clipper executed its first major Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM-1) en route to the outer solar system.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Achieves 2.4-Fold Net Fusion Energy Gain at National Ignition FacilityPhysicists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced verified experimental results from the National Ignition Facility (NIF) on November 12, 2026, in Livermore, California.
James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Trio of Ultra-Massive 'Red Monster' Galaxies in Early UniverseAn international astrophysical research consortium published findings on November 13, 2026, in Nature, confirming three ultra-massive galaxies formed within the first billion years following the Big…
James Webb Space Telescope Detects Water Vapor and Sulfur Dioxide in Exoplanet LHS 1140 bA multinational astronomical research consortium published an exoplanet observation paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on November 11, 2026.
James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Early Universe Supermassive Black Hole Feasting at 40 Times the Eddington LimitExtraordinary Super-Eddington Accretion Challenges Theoretical Radiative Equilibrium Limits Astrophysicists analyzing observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) published a discovery on…
Hubble Telescope Imaging Captures Explosive Starburst Evolution in Irregular Dwarf Galaxy NGC 4449Deep-Space Survey Captures Exquisite Starburst Details Hubble Telescope Imaging Captures Explosive Starburst Evolution in Irregular Dwarf Galaxy NGC 4449.
34-Million-Year-Old Giant Rodent Fossils Unearthed in Southern ThailandAn international team of paleontologists has identified fossils of a giant 66-pound prehistoric rodent that lived in southern Thailand roughly 34 million years ago.
ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer Captures First Close-Up Image of Star Outside Milky WayMassive Supergiant Wrapped in Unprecedented Egg-Shaped Cocoon An international team of astronomers led by the European Southern Observatory announced on November 14 the first resolved close-up…
ESA's Hera Spacecraft Arrives at Didymos Asteroid System to Inspect NASA DART Impact CraterPlanetary Defense Mission Commences Proximity Operations The European Space Agency’s Hera planetary defense spacecraft arrived at the binary asteroid system Didymos and Dimorphos on November 11.
CSIRO and Event Horizon Telescope Validate M87* Black Hole Image Using Novel Technique in NatureNon-Parametric Bayesian Framework Resolves Computational Bias Debates CSIRO and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration published in Nature on November 11, 2026, a re-analysis of historical…
Copernicus Service Reports 2024 Virtually Certain to Be Warmest Year on Record Exceeding 1.5CThe European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) published a global climate assessment in Bonn on November 11, 2026.
Asteroid Ryugu Samples Confirm Presence of All Five Essential Genetic NucleobasesHayabusa2 Samples Deliver Landmark Organic Chemistry Discovery Planetary scientists led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) published astrochemistry research on November 11.
Xanadu and HyperLight Reduce Photonic Quantum Switch Loss to 7 mdB Breaking Key Hardware BottleneckPhotonic quantum computing developer Xanadu Quantum Technologies and integrated photonics pioneer HyperLight Corporation announced an experimental breakthrough in quantum hardware design.
European Southern Observatory's VISTA Telescope Pierces Dust to Discover Ancient Star Cluster That Shaped Early Milky WayPublished: 2026-11-11 04:57 EST An international astrophysical research consortium led by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced a landmark galactic evolution discovery on November 10,…
University of Ottawa Cosmology Model Suggests Universe Is 26.7 Billion Years Old Without Dark MatterAstrophysics researchers from the University of Ottawa published findings on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, proposing an alternative cosmological framework.
Physicists Create Room-Temperature Quantum Supersolid Using Exciton-Polaritons with Voltage Control BreakthroughPhysicists at the CNRS Institut Pascal in France and international collaborators announced a major scientific breakthrough on Tuesday, successfully creating a quantum supersolid at room temperature.
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Detailed Stellar Lifecycle in Spiral Galaxy NGC 5134The European Space Agency and NASA released comprehensive multi-wavelength infrared observations from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday, unveiling spiral galaxy NGC 5134 in remarkable detail.
IBM Unveils Quantum Nighthawk r3 Processor Outlining Roadmap Beyond 1,000 Qubits in 2027IBM announced its next-generation IBM Quantum Nighthawk r3 processor on Wednesday, demonstrating significant advancements in operational speed and quantum gate fidelity.
Global Carbon Project and University of Exeter Publish 2026 Carbon Budget Showing Micro-Decline in Global Fossil Fuel EmissionsPublished: 2026-11-11 02:48 EST The Global Carbon Project, coordinated by climate research teams at the University of Exeter, released the definitive 2026 Global Carbon Budget report on November 10,…
International Astronomy Team Achieves First Direct Measurement of Large-Scale Cosmic Hydrogen Across Dark-Energy ScalesThe MeerKLASS international research collaboration announced a historic observational breakthrough on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.
Axiom Space and Nitride Global Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Advance Microgravity Semiconductor ManufacturingCommercial space infrastructure developer Axiom Space, Inc. and advanced materials company Nitride Global Inc. announced a strategic memorandum of understanding.
US Secretary of Energy Honors Argonne Advanced Photon Source Upgrade Team for World-Leading Light SourceThe U.S. Department of Energy recognized the engineering team behind Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source Upgrade. The award was a secretarial honor.
NASA and JPL Mark Voyager 1 'One-Light Day' Milestone Reaching 24 Light-Hours from Earth in Interstellar SpaceNASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced global public outreach activities on November 10, 2026. The occasion commemorates a historic deep-space exploration milestone.
Geophysical Research Team Discovers Two Massive Tectonic Plate Tears Beneath Southeastern IranAn international team of geophysicists led by researchers from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published breakthrough geophysical findings on November 10,…
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Features Spectacular Lunar Occultation of SaturnNASA's Science Mission Directorate featured a celestial event in its Astronomy Picture of the Day on November 10, 2026. The publication showcased Saturn Behind the Moon.
NASA Announces Voyager 1 Spacecraft Approaching Historic One-Light-Day Distance 16 Billion Miles from EarthNASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued a mission advisory on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. Voyager 1 is on track to cross a physical threshold. On Wednesday, November 18, 2026, at 5:16:07 a.m.
NASA and NOAA Announce 2026 Antarctic Ozone Hole Reached 22.0 Million Square Kilometers as Recovery ContinuesScientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released their annual Antarctic ozone assessment on November 9,…