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Scientists found a hidden chemical fingerprint that life can't help leaving behind, and now it may become our map to finding aliens
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (443+ words) The search for alien life has mostly focused on water, oxygen, and distant Earth-like planets. Now another clue has entered the picture. Researchers say living systems may leave behind a hidden chemical pattern that appears almost impossible to fake naturally....
Scientists clocked a prime asteroid mining target spinning 100 times faster than anything could safely land on it
21+ hour, 30+ min ago (627+ words) Space mining has long carried the promise of a new gold rush " metallic asteroids packed with precious metals, orbiting close enough to reach without burning through a spacecraft's entire fuel supply. Near-Earth asteroids, the most accessible of all, have always…...
Meta needs more energy for its massive data centers, and now it wants 1, 000 satellites in space to capture sunlight and beam it back to Earth
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (624+ words) Credits: Meta, Overview Energy Meta has been pushing AI since Mark Zuckerberg founded FAIR (Facebook AI Research) in 2013. The company continues to stamp its global footprint with large-scale data centers. But there's a price. And it's paid in enormous amounts…...
James Webb Space Telescope captures the first daily weather cycle on a distant exoplanet " sandy mornings, clear alien sunsets
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (388+ words) Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STSc I) For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has tracked a complete daily weather cycle on an exoplanet. The target: WASP-94 Ab, a gas giant one and a half times larger than…...
Artemis II astronauts saw something behind the moon that left one of them saying "we just went sci-fi" and another in tears
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (553+ words) The crowd outside Ottawa's National Arts Centre had been waiting for this. Kids in homemade astronaut costumes pressed forward, giant crew avatars lit up the outdoor screen, and space-themed banners lined the streets leading to Parliament. Then the four Artemis…...
Silver light swallowed Hawaii whole in a satellite image " and a Category 4 hurricane was closing in at the same time
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (261+ words) Credits: NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison On September 7, 2025, a satellite image captured something disorienting: Hawaii had nearly disappeared. A wide, metallic silver band swept across the left side of the frame, swallowing the islands in a blinding sheen…...
Scientists may have found a bizarre new state of matter hidden deep inside Uranus and Neptune, where some atoms lock in place while others spiral through them
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (576+ words) A cosmic secret is burning under Uranus and Neptune's icy surfaces. The extreme temperatures and pressures inside these bodies go against everything we're supposed to know about physics. Scientists who tried to simulate the deep chaos have discovered a state…...
Musk announces plans to reach Mars in 2026 " Starship's new mission will bring a 'mankind's ambassador' but it won't be a human
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (21+ words) Space X's mission remains focused on establishing a city on one of Earth's nearest neighboring planets. Musk's Starship will deliver "mankind's ambassador."...
US Space Force launches a program to put missile interceptors in orbit " with a 2028 deadline
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (891+ words) The U. S. Space Force has formally launched a program to place missile-intercepting spacecraft in orbit " designed to shoot down hypersonic weapons mid-flight, something no country has ever demonstrated. The program, called Space-Based Interceptor, awarded contracts to 12 companies this week with a…...
Astronomers pinpointed the exact star our entire solar system has been racing toward for billions of years and it's visible in May
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (588+ words) The sun isn't sitting still. Right now, it's carrying Earth, every other planet, and everything on them through space at roughly 140 miles per second " aimed at a fixed point in the sky that astronomers have quietly known about for years....