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After more than three years zooming through our solar system, the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or Juice, is coming back to Earth for a quick flyby: on…

One of the most famous full moons of the year will climb into the eastern sky on Saturday, Sept. 26. This year, the Harvest Moon will make its appearance with…

BIRMINGHAM – Leading British universities have joined a new partnership with the US-based University Fusion Association (UFA). The collaboration aims to strengthen transatlantic cooperation in fusion energy. Framed within the…

MAUI, Hawaii — Engineers have built a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI) audio chip for wearable devices that they say will let users engage with AI assistants without needing to maintain…

For the third time this year, Hawaii is under a hurricane watch—that’s never happened before. Hurricane Nolo, currently south of the Big Island, could mark the first time three storms…

NASA is moving forward with designing a new space telescope that can see even deeper into the infrared universe than the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can. The new mission,…

Fusion-powered space travel has long held the promise of rapid trips across the solar system: Mars in weeks, Saturn in months, Pluto in years. For decades, such possibilities have remained…

An invisible stream of superfast plasma is heading straight for Earth, and scientists are thrilled. The reason why is that these jets offer the first evidence of a microblazar. This…

Astronomers are finding that the first generations of galaxies do not always behave the way existing models predict. One possible reason is that their most massive stars may have evolved…

Almost half a century ago, movie audiences were introduced to the Mogwai: cute, cuddly creatures that came with a few rules: keep them out of bright light, don’t get them…

A group of leading UK universities have joined a new partnership with the US-based University Fusion Association (UFA), aiming to strengthen transatlantic cooperation in fusion energy. Framed within the…

In 2006 former vice president Al Gore sounded the alarm on climate change in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. In the film, he implored the world to wake up and…

New research led by scientists at the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai suggests that Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) may be much more common than earlier estimates…

Exquisitely preserved feathers, the first ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop, are providing a peek into how some ancient birds lived — and possibly went extinct. Dense bristles suggest some…

How many interstellar probes has humanity launched? If you’re not a die-hard space geek, the answer will probably surprise you: five. Yes, we currently have five spacecraft, all launched by…

After this year’s successes, it’s clear Hollywood will be making more video game movies for quite some time. With The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Iron Lung, and now Resident Evil…

About 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system began as an enormous cloud of gas and dust. Over the next several million years, this “solar nebula” changed dramatically. The cloud…

KeysQuestions4Explore4 nT-Tao just made a fivefold leap in pulsed power in a single step, going from 12 modules to 50 and from 10 megawatts to 50, which is either an…

Stars can produce powerful shock waves when gas and dust streaming away from them collide with material in the surrounding space. Astronomers have now captured a striking example around the…

Warning: Spoilers for “Silo” season 3 ahead! Apple TV’s “Silo” officially concluded its third season earlier this month and we’re still catching our collective breath. It was perhaps the finest…

Kleber Mendonça Filho likes stuff. The Golden Globe-winning director of The Secret Agent (2025) is doing Zoom interviews from the office of his home in Recife, the northeastern Brazilian city…

He’s done it again: mathematician Levent Alpöge, at Anthropic, has solved yet another open math problem using artificial intelligence. He had already tackled the Jacobian conjecture and found two new…

Astronomers have discovered the first microblazar in the Milky Way, a black hole-powered particle accelerator that is blasting near-light-speed plasma jets at Earth. The system known as IRAS 18293−0941 is…

Utilities requested $18.6 billion in rate increases in the first half of 2026, including a record $9.2 billion in the second quarter alone. Gas prices are hovering close to $4.50…

Rare infections that can pass from a pregnant woman to a developing fetus are associated with higher risks of autism and intellectual disability later in childhood, according to a large…

On Thursday President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration appeared before lawmakers for a crucial Senate confirmation hearing in which she repeatedly distanced herself from the…

Starship just cleared a major hurdle ahead of its first orbital flight. SpaceX announced this afternoon (Sept. 24) that it has completed a wet dress rehearsal (WDR) for the next…

Evidence is building that Uranus’ moon Ariel may once have contained a vast ocean beneath its frozen exterior. Research published in Icarus explores how that hidden ocean may have changed…

Thanks to a ripple in time, Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) has seen the very near future of her time on the USS Enterprise. In the Season 4 finale of Star…