TOI Science Desk
NASA's curiosity rover spots mysterious honeycomb pattern on Mars, leaving scientists puzzled over its or - The Times of IndiaScience News: Space and its mysterious world never fail to surprise humans. According to the latest report, 14 years after touching down on the Red Planet, NASA’s C.
Thursday, July 16
Ashley Strickland
Meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home is a rare solar system fragment - CNNA meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home in 2024 is a rare, primitive space rock containing evidence of ancient water.
Wednesday, July 15
Josh Dinner
'Full steam ahead': NASA ramps up prep for Artemis III astronaut launch in 2027 - SpaceNASA is working hard on readying Artemis III to launch next year.
Wednesday, July 15
The engineers trying to save a fading Voyager had one chance to fire thrusters frozen and unused for 37 years, and when the signal finally returned they learned the impossible had worked - Space DailyThe story sounds almost too neat: a spacecraft launched in 1977, a set of thrusters last used in 1980, and a team on Earth asking them to work again 37 years
Wednesday, July 15
How naked mole-rat queens stop rivals reproducing - NatureThe scent of a single chemical, made only by the queen, alters hormone production in other females.
Wednesday, July 15
Astronomers find nearby planets to be small, strange, and utterly uninhabitable - Phys.orgScientists have painted the most detailed portrait yet of the planetary system orbiting Barnard's Star—the sun's closest neighbor after Alpha Centauri, just under six light-years from Earth.
Wednesday, July 15
Paul Arnold
T. rex babies were born ready to run and feed themselves - Phys.orgTyrannosaurus rex was a giant of the prehistoric world, standing up to 13 feet (4 meters) tall and weighing around 9 tons (8 tonnes). So you might expect that its hatchlings were also a considerable size.
Wednesday, July 15
The Hubble Space Telescope reached orbit with a mirror ground to the wrong shape by a fraction of a human hair, and astronauts repaired the billion-dollar mistake by effectively giving it glasses - Space DailyHubble’s first images did not look like the beginning of a new era in astronomy. Stars that should have appeared as sharp points arrived with fuzzy halos.
Wednesday, July 15
Andrey Feldman
'Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theory - Live ScienceScientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.
Wednesday, July 15
Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding - KSL NewsAstronomers have discovered a faint, elusive planet orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek.
Wednesday, July 15
Chelsea Gohd
Raspberry sugar spotted in interstellar space, a sweet discovery that could reveal clues about life's origins - Space"Our work shows that sugars can form naturally in space."
Wednesday, July 15
Srishti Singh Sisodia
First Human X-Rays Captured In Space Mark Major Breakthrough For Astronaut Health - NDTVFollowing their return, three independent radiologists evaluated the in-flight images against identical scans taken before and after the mission.
Wednesday, July 15
Swissman
The Grand Tour and the Three-Body Problem — Journey to Neptune - Daily KosDear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, I am writing to you from home, where I am spending a few days of holiday. Not in some distant observatory or lecture hall, but here…
Wednesday, July 15
Quantum statistical plasmonic metacrystals - NatureA new class of materials, quantum statistical plasmonic metacrystals, is described, which can selectively transmit different types of light based only on their quantum coherence, showing bands of allowed and forbidden photon statistics.
Wednesday, July 15