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Space Exploration Jul 7, 2026

University team proposed retractable, pressurized tunnels for missions to Mars

NASA and China's national space agency plan to send crewed missions to Mars in the coming decades. Per NASA's Moon to Mars mission architecture, this will involve using infrastructure established through the Artemis Program ...

Astronomy Jul 7, 2026

New Horizons watches the solar wind as it slows down

Where does the solar system end and interstellar space begin? That's a question scientists have been working to answer using spacecraft traveling beyond the sun's influence. A team of researchers from the Southwest Research ...

Astronomy Jul 7, 2026

It's disturbingly easy to trick AI into seeing aliens, say researchers

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets. Things mistaken for UFOs.

Space Exploration Jul 6, 2026

Canadian Artemis II crew member to retire from space agency

The Canadian astronaut who was part of the historic Artemis II crew that successfully voyaged around the moon earlier this year is retiring from the nation's space agency, officials said Monday.

Planetary Sciences Jul 6, 2026

Discrepancies in AI lunar crater catalogs discovered

A new Southwest Research Institute-led study compared eight AI-generated lunar crater catalogs, discovering that many of their published performance metrics drop sharply when the databases are evaluated using the same scientific ...

Earth Sciences Jul 6, 2026

Traces of Earth's primordial magma ocean discovered in lava from a modern volcanic eruption

In May 2018, the island of Mayotte, between Madagascar and Mozambique, began to experience a series of earthquakes that led to the discovery of an underwater volcano, now called Fani Maoré. Multiple scientific expeditions ...

Space Exploration Jul 6, 2026

Japan releases snowman-like asteroid image after flyby

Rare images taken by a Japanese space probe during a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid have revealed that the space rock resembled a snowman, scientists said Monday.

Planetary Sciences Jul 6, 2026

China's space probe reaches asteroid after 1-billion-kilometer chase for first sample return

China's Tianwen-2 space probe, which is set to bring back samples from an asteroid for research, has reached its target after traveling 1 billion kilometers (620 million miles) over more than a year, the Chinese space agency ...

Astronomy Jul 3, 2026

Could this asteroid be a piece of the moon? A Chinese spacecraft is about to find out

The moon is not the only natural object traveling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks also take a year to complete ...

Plants & Animals Jul 2, 2026

How winter conditions shape future jellyfish blooms

Marine scientists at the University of Chester have discovered that environmental conditions experienced by jellyfish before winter can have lasting effects on the size and intensity of jellyfish blooms many months later. ...

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