- Bennu Was Born Where Fire Met Ice, Asteroid Samples Reveal
2026-10-25 03:19 EDT · 547 words · Science
Bennu Was Born Where Fire Met Ice, Asteroid Samples Reveal Half a gram of dust rewrites Bennu's birthplace Scientists have pinned down where asteroid Bennu was born, and the answer is not where most…
- Hunter's Moon Glows Orange as Saturn Stands Guard
2026-10-25 08:26 EDT · 558 words · Science
Hunter's Moon Glows Orange as Saturn Stands Guard A full moon climbs at sunset, with Saturn beside it October's full moon, the Hunter's Moon, puts on its show this weekend.
- SpaceX Declines Military Launch Contracts; Spanish MIURA 5 Rocket Nears Readiness
2026-10-23 09:39 EDT · 533 words · Science
SpaceX Declines Military Launch Contracts; Spanish MIURA 5 Rocket Nears Readiness SpaceX Says No to Three Space Force Launch Contracts The US Space Force offered SpaceX three military satellite…
- Free Science, on Tap: Where Seattle Bars Double as Lecture Halls
2026-10-23 13:23 EDT · 702 words · Science
Free Science, on Tap: Where Seattle Bars Double as Lecture Halls In Seattle, some of the liveliest science lectures come with a beer menu.
- What is a neutrino anyway? The science behind this year's Physics Nobel
2026-10-23 04:38 EDT · 693 words · Science
What is a neutrino anyway? The science behind this year's Physics Nobel Neutrinos: the lightest, most elusive elementary particles Neutrinos are elementary particles, meaning they cannot be broken…
- Real "Three-Body" System Found by Chinese Astronomers: Nothing Like Liu Cixin's Novel
2026-10-23 04:24 EDT · 482 words · Science
Real "Three-Body" System Found by Chinese Astronomers: Nothing Like Liu Cixin's Novel A Dead Star With Two Companions Confirmed A research team at the National Astronomical Observatories of the…
- A Strange Radio Signal in the Far Reaches of the Milky Way Is Behaving Like Nothing Else in the Galaxy
2026-10-22 19:15 EDT · 594 words · Science
A Strange Radio Signal in the Far Reaches of the Milky Way Is Behaving Like Nothing Else in the Galaxy VLASS Survey Spots an Anomalous Radio Transient Beyond the Galaxy's Outer Spiral Arm Astronomers…
- Coyote Launches Into the Air to Snatch a Pear Off a Tree
2026-10-22 12:25 EDT · 440 words · Science
Coyote Launches Into the Air to Snatch a Pear Off a Tree Trail Cam Captures a Coyote's Vertical Leap A Facebook video shared by Tom Miranda, who goes by Adventure Bowhunter, is going viral for all…
- Europe's Space Rider test model destroyed in drop-test parafoil failure; ESA opens independent investigation
2026-10-22 23:26 EDT · 551 words · Science
Europe's Space Rider test model destroyed in drop-test parafoil failure; ESA opens independent investigation On October 6, ESA released a full-scale Space Rider test model from a helicopter at…
- Juvenile giant manta rays stay inshore while adults roam hundreds of kilometres
2026-10-22 15:25 EDT · 573 words · Science
Juvenile giant manta rays stay inshore while adults roam hundreds of kilometres A tracking study off Costa Rica has revealed a stark split in how giant manta rays use space across their lives:…
- Putting a Face to the Denisovans: Xujiayao Fossils Reveal What They Looked Like
2026-10-22 01:32 EDT · 889 words · Science
Putting a Face to the Denisovans: Xujiayao Fossils Reveal What They Looked Like Twenty Xujiayao fossils carry the answer A team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at…
- Japan Launches Historic Mission to Bring Home Samples from Mars's Moon Phobos
2026-10-22 11:38 EDT · 518 words · Science
Japan Launches Historic Mission to Bring Home Samples from Mars's Moon Phobos Japan Launches MMX to Sample Mars's Moon Phobos At 4:41 a.m.
- Why a West Coast Storm May Be the Start of Something Much Bigger
2026-10-21 12:22 EDT · 610 words · Science
Why a West Coast Storm May Be the Start of Something Much Bigger A Kelvin Wave Is Raising Sea Levels A deep-ocean Kelvin wave is pushing sea levels higher along the U.S.
- A Single Marsquake Shows the Solar System's Largest Canyon Is Still Moving
2026-10-21 09:00 EDT · 648 words · Science
A Single Marsquake Shows the Solar System's Largest Canyon Is Still Moving A 3,900-kilometre canyon system dwarfs Earth's Grand Canyon Valles Marineris is the largest canyon system in the solar…
- A Material That Finds Its Own Beat
2026-10-21 09:23 EDT · 627 words · Science
A Material That Finds Its Own Beat A honeycomb of 37 robots locks into one pulse The new time crystal is not made of atoms.
- Earth's Core Has Been Quietly Leaking Water for Billions of Years
2026-10-21 11:20 EDT · 438 words · Science
Earth's Core Has Been Quietly Leaking Water for Billions of Years A Leaky Core, Not a Sealed Vault For decades, geoscientists have treated Earth's metallic core and the rocky mantle above it as…
- Voyagers from Easter Island Reached Hawaii First, DNA Shows
2026-10-21 08:16 EDT · 588 words · Science
Voyagers from Easter Island Reached Hawaii First, DNA Shows A 4,400-Mile Canoe Voyage Rewrites Settlement History A band of seafarers from Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui, set off in…
- Japan's Phobos Sample-Return Probe Lifts Off on Five-Year Round Trip
2026-10-21 09:12 EDT · 687 words · Science
Japan Launches $578 Million MMX Spacecraft to Bring Home Pieces of Phobos Predawn liftoff sends Japan's heaviest deep-space probe toward Mars Japan launched the Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft…
- Japan Launches Five-Year Bid to Bring Home a Piece of Phobos
2026-10-20 02:54 EDT · 568 words · Science
Japan Launches Five-Year Bid to Bring Home a Piece of Phobos H3 roars off Tanegashima before dawn Japan launched the Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft before dawn on Oct. 20 at 4:41 a.m.
- Halley's Debris Returns: Orionids Peak October 21-22 Under a Meddling Moon
2026-10-20 07:02 EDT · 614 words · Science
Halley's Debris Returns: Orionids Peak October 21-22 Under a Meddling Moon A Broad Peak Favors the Flexible Stargazer The Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak on the night of Wednesday, October 21,…
- Six Minutes of Night at Noon: Why 2027 Is the Eclipse to Book
2026-10-20 04:23 EDT · 634 words · Science
Six Minutes of Night at Noon: Why 2027 Is the Eclipse to Book The Moon's shadow takes a 15,000-kilometer road trip On Monday, Aug.
- Geology Says Europe and North America Never Split
2026-10-19 12:04 EDT · 591 words · Science
Geology Says Europe and North America Never Split Seven continents shrink to six as Atlantic split stalls The familiar seven-continent map may be geologically wrong.
- Roman's Main Camera Beats Its Own Blueprint by Nearly 30 Percent
2026-10-18 03:22 EDT · 820 words · Science
Roman's Main Camera Beats Its Own Blueprint by Nearly 30 Percent A mirror nudged by a hair's width, images sharpen nearly 30 percent NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has come out of its first…
- Earth's Core Has Been Oozing Primordial Material Since the Planet Was Born
2026-10-18 05:55 EDT · 705 words · Science
Earth's Core Has Been Oozing Primordial Material Since the Planet Was Born The deepest layer never stopped leaking Earth's core is not sealed.
- The Woman Who Wrote the Code for the Moon: Margaret Hamilton, 1936-2026
2026-10-18 04:58 EDT · 934 words · Science
The Woman Who Wrote the Code for the Moon: Margaret Hamilton, 1936-2026 An alarm during the final descent On July 20, 1969, as the lunar module Eagle dropped toward the Sea of Tranquility, its…
- The Orionids Peak Oct. 21-22: Halley's Comet Debris, and How to Beat the Moon
2026-10-18 07:04 EDT · 812 words · Science
The Orionids Peak Oct. 21-22: Halley's Comet Debris, and How to Beat the Moon The shower runs Oct. 2 to Nov. 7 and peaks overnight Oct.
- Earth's oldest life story is written in stone — and it's being stepped on
2026-10-16 06:12 EDT · 739 words · Science
Earth's oldest life story is written in stone — and it's being stepped on Microbialites: the first visible page of life Long before bones or shells, life left its earliest visible marks in stone.
- When Arithmetic Gets Stressful, a Gamble's Downside Loosens Its Grip
2026-10-15 02:12 EDT · 636 words · Science
When Arithmetic Gets Stressful, a Gamble's Downside Loosens Its Grip Under a countdown, losses lost some of their bite People who solved arithmetic problems while a countdown ran, buzzers fired and…
- Hera Reaches the Crime Scene: Europe's Probe Goes to Weigh What NASA Hit
2026-10-15 02:04 EDT · 811 words · Science
Hera Reaches the Crime Scene: Europe's Probe Goes to Weigh What NASA Hit Hera arrives at Didymos this month The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is closing on the binary asteroid 65803 Didymos…
- NASA's SkyFall: Three Helicopters, No Lander, and a 1,000-Meter Drop Into the Martian Sky
2026-10-15 19:05 EDT · 995 words · Science
NASA's SkyFall: Three Helicopters, No Lander, and a 1,000-Meter Drop Into the Martian Sky Three helicopters let go 1,000 meters up NASA is moving fast on SkyFall, a mission that will send three…
- Jodrell Bank's Lovell Dish: Ministers "Explore" a Future That Still Lacks Money
2026-10-15 11:05 EDT · 722 words · Science
Jodrell Bank's Lovell Dish: Ministers "Explore" a Future That Still Lacks Money A 76-metre dish that has watched the sky since 1957 Britain's largest telescope is the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank…
- The Liberty Bell Has Been Silent for 180 Years. Physicists Just Rebuilt Its Sound.
2026-10-15 17:58 EDT · 913 words · Science
The Liberty Bell Has Been Silent for 180 Years. Physicists Just Rebuilt Its Sound.
- Hot Wheels to the Rescue: Gelato the Wheelchair Kitten Has a Home
2026-10-14 16:15 EDT · 667 words · Science
Hot Wheels to the Rescue: Gelato the Wheelchair Kitten Has a Home Five kittens rescued, one left with a spinal injury Cincinnati Animal CARE took in Gelato along with four other kittens after a…
- Venus Finally Gets Its Turn: NASA's Two Long-Delayed Venus Missions Have Launch Dates
2026-10-14 21:11 EDT · 695 words · Science
Venus Finally Gets Its Turn: NASA's Two Long-Delayed Venus Missions Have Launch Dates Both missions are back on track After two years of budget scares and slipping schedules, NASA's two Venus…
- From Record-Setting Orbit to the Engineering Front Office: NASA Puts Christina Koch in Charge
2026-10-14 07:22 EDT · 582 words · Science
From Record-Setting Orbit to the Engineering Front Office: NASA Puts Christina Koch in Charge Koch Becomes Acting Deputy Chief Engineer on Nov. 1 NASA announced on Oct.
- Carolinas Wake Up to a SpaceX Sky Show, Then a Sonic Boom Back in Florida
2026-10-13 09:05 EDT · 847 words · Science
Carolinas Wake Up to a SpaceX Sky Show, Then a Sonic Boom Back in Florida A glowing cloud over two states before sunrise Residents across North Carolina and South Carolina looked east early Tuesday…
- South Pole Ice Telescope Wins Physics Nobel as Halzen Is Honored for Cosmic Neutrinos
2026-10-13 07:11 EDT · 719 words · Science
South Pole Ice Telescope Wins Physics Nobel as Halzen Is Honored for Cosmic Neutrinos Stockholm Hands the Prize to Antarctic Ice Sweden's Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on October 6 that…
- Perseverance Becomes the Longest-Driven Vehicle Off Earth
2026-10-13 09:27 EDT · 704 words · Science
Perseverance Becomes the Longest-Driven Vehicle Off Earth NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced on October 12 that the Perseverance rover has driven 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers) across Mars,…
- Nine States Could Catch the Northern Lights Tuesday Night as a Coronal Hole Winds Down the Storm Cycle
2026-10-13 18:07 EDT · 767 words · Science
Nine States Could Catch the Northern Lights Tuesday Night as a Coronal Hole Winds Down the Storm Cycle A Quieter Kind of Aurora Night After a weekend that hurled the aurora as far south as England's…
- Halley's 1986 Flop, 40 Years On: The Comet That Disappointed Millions and Rewrote Astronomy
2026-10-13 12:14 EDT · 776 words · Science
Halley's 1986 Flop, 40 Years On: The Comet That Disappointed Millions and Rewrote Astronomy A once-in-a-lifetime promise, a faint smudge Twenty twenty-six marks 40 years since Halley's Comet last…
- Ten States Could Catch the Aurora Tonight in the Wake of Saturday's Rare G3 Storm
2026-10-12 18:03 EDT · 685 words · Science
Ten States Could Catch the Aurora Tonight in the Wake of Saturday's Rare G3 Storm Ten states sit inside tonight's window NOAA's latest forecast puts the aurora over ten northern states on Monday…
- Voyager 1 Is About to Cross the One Light-Day Line
2026-10-13 00:03 EDT · 683 words · Science
Voyager 1 Is About to Cross the One Light-Day Line November 18 Is the Date NASA Keeps Citing NASA's mission-status page puts a specific number on the moment: if its current trajectory holds, Voyager…
- The Deep-Sea "Glutton" That Swallowed Ten Times Its Weight — Caught on Camera
2026-10-11 18:02 EDT · 409 words · Science
The Deep-Sea "Glutton" That Swallowed Ten Times Its Weight — Caught on Camera A little fish in the deep has gone viral for an underdog feat: no longer than a school ruler, yet able to gulp down prey…
- Solar System May Fall Apart 100 Times Faster Than Thought, New Study Says
2026-10-10 02:09 EDT · 612 words · Science
The Solar System's retirement plan may need to be moved up. A new study finds that after the Sun dies, the outer planets' orbital lifetime is not the previously estimated 10^18 years (a billion…
- G3 Geomagnetic Storm Puts Tonight's Northern Lights Within Reach of Illinois and Oregon
2026-10-10 19:55 EDT · 658 words · Science
A geomagnetic storm has strengthened to G3 — "strong" on NOAA's five-level scale — and forecasters say tonight could bring the best northern lights show of the week to parts of the United States.
- Why Big Dogs Age Faster: Science Study Points to Runaway 'Jumping Genes'
2026-10-10 13:11 EDT · 400 words · Science
Why do Great Danes rarely see ten while Chihuahuas can reach eighteen? A study published October 8 in Science offers the first compelling molecular explanation: "jumping genes" run out of control…
- Variable Water Clouds Found 7.5 Light-Years Away: Webb Confirms Weather on Another World
2026-10-09 19:58 EDT · 438 words · Science
Just 7.5 light-years away, a failed star has skies that thicken and thin like weather on Earth.
- Hidden in a Cabinet for 40 Years: Student Identifies New Giant Isopod Species
2026-10-09 16:05 EDT · 519 words · Science
A "bug" that sat in a university specimen cabinet for over 40 years has finally been recognized for what it really is: not the species everyone assumed, but an entirely new species of deep-sea giant…
- Doomed NASA Swift Telescope to Burn Up in November After Rescue Fails
2026-10-09 19:07 EDT · 437 words · Science
Doomed NASA Swift Telescope to Burn Up in November After Rescue Fails NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, an aging space telescope that has watched the cosmos for 22 years, is expected to plunge…
- Webb Pins Most Distant Fast Radio Burst to Tiny Galaxy From the Young Universe
2026-10-09 19:17 EDT · 442 words · Science
Webb Pins Most Distant Fast Radio Burst to Tiny Galaxy From the Young Universe An international team using the James Webb Space Telescope has measured redshift 2.148 for fast radio burst FRB…
- Four Astronauts Return to Earth After 8 Months in Space
2026-10-09 09:01 EDT · 451 words · Science
Four astronauts are home after nearly eight months aboard the International Space Station. At 11:34 a.m.
- Nobel Physics Laureate Halzen: I Was Using Neural Networks Back in 1991
2026-10-08 02:01 EDT · 583 words · Science
Nobel physics laureate Francis Halzen told reporters in Turin, Italy, on Wednesday about a little-known chapter of his career: back in 1991, he wrote a paper proposing to use neural networks to…
- Chemistry Nobel Goes to Kagan and Soai for Cracking the Mirror-Molecule Mystery
2026-10-07 15:04 EDT · 516 words · Science
French and Japanese Chemists Take the Prize The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on Wednesday to Henri B. Kagan of France and Kenso Soai of Japan.
- Hotter Than Molten Steel: Hexagonal Close-Packed "Superionic Ice" Confirmed in the Lab
2026-10-07 02:07 EDT · 451 words · Science
Title: Hotter Than Molten Steel: Hexagonal Close-Packed "Superionic Ice" Confirmed in the Lab October 7, 2026 Squeezed Between Diamonds: 230 Gigapascals, 4,270°F A team led by physicist Alexis…
- A Martian Morning, Unfiltered: Curiosity Captures Its Most Detailed Dawn Panorama
2026-10-07 07:56 EDT · 624 words · Science
A Martian Morning, Unfiltered: Curiosity Captures Its Most Detailed Dawn Panorama The Moment: Dawn on Mars as a Postcard NASA this week released a panorama of dawn breaking over Mars: morning…
- Decades of Waiting End for Francis Halzen: the 2026 Physics Nobel Goes to the "Ghost Particle" Hunter
2026-10-07 01:59 EDT · 491 words · Science
Title: Decades of Waiting End for Francis Halzen: the 2026 Physics Nobel Goes to the "Ghost Particle" Hunter October 7, 2026 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics: Awarded for the Antarctic Neutrino…
- Watson Said Franklin Missed the Double Helix. Her Own Notes Say Otherwise
2026-10-07 14:59 EDT · 512 words · Science
Watson's Version: She Missed the Double Helix In his bestselling memoir *The Double Helix*, James Watson told the story of DNA as a tale of sudden genius: Rosalind Franklin held the crucial X-ray…
- Crew-12 Departs the Space Station After 237 Days, Headed for Pacific Splashdown
2026-10-07 11:00 EDT · 464 words · Science
Four astronauts are heading home after nearly eight months aboard the International Space Station. At 8:05 a.m.
- Astronaut Says Next Artemis Mission Is on Track for 2027 — but "Anything Can Happen"
2026-10-06 14:32 EDT · 479 words · Science
Astronaut Says Next Artemis Mission Is on Track for 2027 — but "Anything Can Happen" Artemis III could still launch in 2027, with next June as the ideal target — but "anything can happen." That was…
- 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to "Ghost Particle" Hunter Francis Halzen
2026-10-06 08:55 EDT · 820 words · Science
2026 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to "Ghost Particle" Hunter Francis Halzen The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen, the 82-year-old Belgian-American physicist whose…
- Physicists Finally Measure the "Other" Kind of Quantum Entanglement After 25 Years
2026-10-05 01:55 EDT · 540 words · Science
Physicists Finally Measure the "Other" Kind of Quantum Entanglement After 25 Years A 25-year gap in entanglement measurement Quantum entanglement is the foundation of quantum computing, quantum…
- Candidate Planet Found in Habitable Zone of the Hottest Star Yet
2026-10-05 20:57 EDT · 564 words · Science
Astronomers may have found an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of the hottest star yet known to host such a world. The candidate, dubbed HD 156295 b, sits about 140 light-years from Earth.
- Ancient DNA narrows when people first reached the Americas to 14,000–20,000 years ago
2026-10-05 23:02 EDT · 509 words · Science
When did humans first set foot on the American continents? A University of Kansas team has published a review in the journal Current Opinion in Genetics & Development that tests the three leading…
- Crew-13 Reaches Space Station in Record 8 Hours; Infrared Launch Shot Is Photo of the Day
2026-10-05 21:00 EDT · 564 words · Science
SpaceX's Crew-13 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 1, carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station in a record-setting flight: about eight hours from launch…
- First Type-I Superconductor Found to Break Time-Reversal Symmetry
2026-10-03 02:55 EDT · 535 words · Science
Physicists at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal have discovered the first known type-I superconductor that breaks time-reversal symmetry.
- NASA's PRIMA Far-Infrared Telescope Enters Design Phase, Targets 2033 Launch
2026-10-02 12:04 EDT · 624 words · Science
NASA announced on September 23 that PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) is advancing to Phase B — preliminary design and technology development.
- 22-Year-Old Swift Observatory to Burn Up After Failed Commercial Rescue
2026-10-02 03:00 EDT · 553 words · Science
After 22 years in space, "Swift" is coming home — in the most dramatic way possible.
- Crew-13 Docks in 7 Hours 55 Minutes, Setting a U.S. Record
2026-10-02 09:57 EDT · 579 words · Science
Twenty-four hours earlier, NASA's forecast said "about 8 hours 50 minutes." The spacecraft beat it. At 7:05 p.m.
- Hunting for Humanity's Ancient Ancestor on Mars: The Evidence Piles Up, the Road Home Is Cut
2026-10-01 18:13 EDT · 983 words · Science
Hunting for Humanity's Ancient Ancestor on Mars: The Evidence Piles Up, the Road Home Is Cut Fifty years ago, NASA's Viking landers made humanity's first attempt to find life on Mars — and came up…
- Newton Tower has implemented modern tests of testing and classical mechanics.
2026-09-28 23:26 EDT · 1806 words · Science
This is a series of reports and research materials surrounding Isaac Newton and his scientific heritage.
- Recent developments in space exploration and climate research have been announced
2026-09-27 14:15 EDT · 1186 words · Science
Recent developments in science and space have been highly dynamic, covering the advancement of many NASA space missions, the release of astronomical research results, and new actions at the global…