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Science • Mar 26

It’s Fireball Season! Answering Your Meteor Questions

Sometimes, space comes to us! Texas, Ohio, California, Michigan – these are just a few of the states where folks have recently seen the.

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Science • Mar 26

Dr. Niayesh Afshordi (IMAGE)

Caption. Dr. Niayesh Afshordi, professor at the University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute, draws the renormalization group flow for quadratic quantum...

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Science • Mar 26

A curved map of the infant universe. (IMAGE)

The outer surface represents the hot early universe imprinted with tiny temperature fluctuations, while the flow lines below suggest the deeper mathematical...

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Science • Mar 26

AI Uncovers Hidden Signals, Discovering Dozens of New Alien Planets

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

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Science • Mar 26

NASA to Unveil Complete Roman Telescope, Host Media Briefing

Media are invited Tuesday, April 21, to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a look at the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space.

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Science • Mar 26

NASA Releases Artemis II Moon Mission Launch Countdown

Before NASA sends its astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on their Artemis II.

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Science • Mar 26

What’s Up: April 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Mercury shines at its brightest for the year, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks, and a bright new comet makes an appearance in April's night sky.

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Science • Mar 26

Sun storms are powered by a magnetic engine 16 Earths deep, study finds

The powerful magnetic field belonging to the sun is generated far beneath the visible surface.

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Science • Mar 26

SpaceX President Uncertain Orbital Data Centers Will Actually Reach 1M Satellites

Still, Gwynne Shotwell says it's better to seek regulators' permission now, especially since rival companies are also exploring data centers in space.

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Science • Mar 26

'Near-misses' in particle accelerators can illuminate new physics, study finds

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The high-energy collisions produce a...

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Science • Mar 26

Vulcan grounding could impact multiple Space Force, NRO satellite launches

Among the near-term launches most likely to be delayed or shifted are those of the Space Force WGS-11 communications satellite slated to lift off by the end...

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Science • Mar 26

2 Neanderthals present at same Siberian cave 10,000 years apart were distant relatives, 110,000-year-old bone reveals

Researchers extracted DNA from a Neanderthal bone fragment found in Russia's Denisova Cave, and the genome is shedding light on how small and isolated their...

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Science • Mar 26

Webb and Hubble Telescopes Capture Saturn in Unprecedented Detail

By combining infrared observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with visible-light imagery from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,...

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Science • Mar 26

Astronomers Say Recent Rash of Meteor Sightings ‘Warrants Serious Investigation’

Astronomers are still searching for answers behind this year's unusual wave of loud and fiery meteor sightings. Over 3,000 people witnessed a slowly...

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Science • Mar 26

How did Venus become a hellscape? 234,000 simulations reveal four possible paths

Venus is increasingly becoming a touch point for our studies of exoplanets, as missions like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the upcoming...

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Science • Mar 26

Earth's magnetic field creates a previously undetected pocket of protection from radiation on the moon

High-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) bombard unprotected objects in space, often causing damage. Earth, however, is protected by its...

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Science • Mar 26

Programmable superconducting diode can flow on command

A team of researchers led by the University of Pittsburgh demonstrated a programmable superconducting diode at the LaAlO3/KTaO3 (LAO/KTO) interface,...

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Science • Mar 26

Scientists Discover a New Branch of Life in the Deep Sea

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to fast-track deep-sea mining permits...

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Science • Mar 26

New ancient human relative unearthed in Egypt

Scientists have discovered an ancient relative of all living apes in northern Egypt, highlighting how the hunt for human evolutionary history spans well...

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Science • Mar 26

X-ray lasers enable the discovery of a critical point in water

Using X-ray lasers, researchers at Stockholm University have been able to determine the existence of a critical point in supercooled water at around -63 °C...

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