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Elon Musk’s SpaceX violated its launch license in explosive Starship test, triggering an FAA probe
SpaceX’s next test Starship test launches are getting a close look from the FAA. Read more…
US team including 2 teenagers discovers ‘planetary lab’ with a rocky super-earth
The planetary system has been discovered around star HD 108236 that’s just 200 light years away.…
Female physicist invents new fusion to take the first humans to Mars
Dr. Fatima Ebrahimi designed a fusion rocket that uses magnetic fields to shoot plasma particles from…
NASA delays Juno spacecraft’s retirement after detecting mysterious radio waves
The Juno spacecraft, orbiting Jupiter since 2016, has a new lease on life, thanks to NASA.…
Scientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Forever
Scientists think they may have spied the universe’s “gravitational wave background” after more than a decade…
‘Absolutely Life-changing Moment’: 17-Year-Old Wins Youth Science Competition By Making Quantum Physics Explainable
Canadian teenager Maryam Tsegaye remembers sitting in her dad’s lap as a young girl and asking…
How the humble slime mold helped physicists map the cosmic web
Despite similarities, “We don’t think the universe was created by a giant slime mold.” Read more…
With a single image, scientists changed our understanding of the Sun forever
Astronomers have been staring at the Sun for decades but only recently have they been able…
There Used to Be Aliens in Our Galaxy, but They Killed Themselves Off
ETs have a thing for self-annihilation. At leat that might be the grim conclusion… Read more…
Tardigrades may have taken over the Moon
There’s live on the Moon!!! At least since 2019 when Israeli Beresheet spacecraft crash-landed on the…
Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger’s equation
A team of scientists at Freie Universität Berlin has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method for…
Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri
Strange radio transmissions appear to be coming from our nearest star system; now scientists are trying…
Newly discovered Jupiter-like world could be the long-sought ‘Planet X’
When the Hubble Space Telescope set its sights toward the binary star system HD 106906, astronomers…
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations
The arxiv database used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of…
Somehow, a Monstrous Supermassive Black Hole Has Gone Missing
The Universe is full of galaxy clusters, but Abell 2261 is in a class of its…
Scientists think they’ve detected radio emissions from an alien world
Scientists used a radio telescope in the netherlands to study three different stars known to host…
Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe
Physicists give us an early view of a third kingdom of quasiparticles that only arise in…
NASA’s new Hubble images will blow your mind
NASA just released a treasure trove of cosmic imagery. Read more at Mashable ME…
Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
Guellati-khélifa gauges the fine-structure constant by measuring how strongly rubidium atoms recoil when they absorb a…