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Friday, July 17

TOI Science Desk

NASA's curiosity rover spots mysterious honeycomb pattern on Mars, leaving scientists puzzled over its or - The Times of India

Science 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 - CNN

A 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 - Space

NASA 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 Daily

The 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 - Nature

The 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.org

Scientists 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.org

Tyrannosaurus 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 Daily

Hubble’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 Science

Scientists 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 News

Astronomers 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 - NDTV

Following 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 Kos

Dear 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 - Nature

A 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