
Big discoveries, deep space, and fresh answers to fascinating questions.

Big discoveries, deep space, and fresh answers to fascinating questions.
The gamma-ray burst observatory came down over western Indonesia on November 4 after a failed attempt to rescue it.
Around local midnight is a suggested time to watch, though the shower is expected to produce relatively few meteors.
AutoDNA points toward an autonomous lab where human effort would be limited to hardware maintenance.
Cellophane bees' waterproof nest linings combine silk and polyester; the polyester share fell from 73% to 40% within months.
The 3.2-sigma result agrees with predictions but falls short of the threshold for a discovery.
Blue's engine burn is scheduled for Nov. 7, followed by Gold's on Nov. 9.
Four also showed evidence of alcohol, while some samples held compounds associated with ayahuasca.
The October 18 images came from 1,280 kilometers away, ahead of a planned November 4 close approach.
The Aratasaurus leg bone from Brazil also yielded chemical traces related to heme, a component of hemoglobin.
A White House grant-review plan is temporarily blocked, while the NSF’s 2027 budget remains unapproved.
All five nucleobases were detected in both Ryugu samples, in roughly similar amounts across the five bases.
Spacesuit swatches on NASA's Perseverance rover showed little visible wear after 1,645 Martian days on the surface.
SpaceX's dedicated Starfall product page highlights a ~1,000 kg return capsule for in-orbit manufacturing, biomedical research, and materials science.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk installed the seventh array during an Oct. 29 spacewalk.
The edit reportedly changed just 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B’s weights without gradient training in the researchers’ experiment.
IEEE says the papers violated its publication principles; retraction notices say they may have been offered for sale.
NASA's Voyager 1 probe nears 16.1 billion miles from Earth around November 18, 2026, marking a historic distance where radio signals will take 24 hours one way. Engineers recently recovered the spacecraft from temporary communication loss.
Preserved specimens show a surge in infections around the station’s 1979–1982 amphibian declines.
Quantum gravity sensors could survey pyramids for voids by detecting slight drops in gravity, one post suggests.
The 1,137-patient study tested personalized treatment intismeran alongside pembrolizumab after surgery for high-risk melanoma.