Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Space Turns Skulls Into Moving Rooms: Brain Shifts MRI scans of 26 astronauts reveal that long stays in microgravity nudge the brain upward and backward, with some regions shifting over 2 mm. Most changes recover within months, but implications for long missions remain important.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Why Jupiter Is Slightly Smaller Than We Thought, Now New radio-occultation measurements from Juno shrink Jupiter's measured radius by a few kilometers, refining models of its interior, atmosphere, and formation with improved data and wind corrections.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Milky Way's Magnetic Maze: New Map Reveals Surprises A broadband radio survey from the DRAO 15m telescope reveals the Milky Way's magnetic field is far more tangled and structured than expected, providing new constraints on star formation, cosmic rays, and galactic dynamics.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Inside-Out Planetary System Challenges Formation Models Astronomers have found an "inside-out" planetary system around red dwarf LHS 1903: two gas giants sit between two rocky planets, suggesting planets can form sequentially in gas-depleted environments.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Why Two-Sun Planets Are Rare: How Relativity Clears Them Relativistic precession in tight binary stars drives resonances that eject or destroy nearby planets, creating a detectable 'desert' of circumbinary worlds; distant survivors remain hard to find by transit surveys.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago A Fragile Chemistry: Why Oxygen Shaped Earth's Habitability New research suggests Earth's habitability hinged on a narrow oxygen range during core formation that kept phosphorus and nitrogen accessible—critical ingredients for life and a new filter for exoplanet searches.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Space Weather and Quakes: A Surprising Electrostatic Link A Kyoto University model proposes that large ionospheric charge shifts from solar activity could, under specific conditions, create electrostatic pressures in fractured rock that might influence fault rupture timing.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Earth’s Hidden Hydrogen: A Giant Reservoir Below, Deep Down Laboratory experiments suggest Earth's core may contain nine to forty-five times more hydrogen than the oceans, reshaping ideas about the origin of water, core chemistry, and planetary evolution.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Survey of Runaway Stars Rewrites Origins with Gaia Data A major Gaia + IACOB survey of 214 O-type stars reveals that most runaway massive stars are slow rotators, implicating cluster interactions and supernovae in different roles for launching stars into interstellar space.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago A Cosmic Coincidence: Two Galaxies, One Line of Sight A striking Hubble image shows two galaxies aligned by chance: Arp 4's faint giant and a distant bright spiral. This accidental pairing reveals how perspective can mislead astronomers and highlights the importance of distance measurements.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Venus Harbors Massive Lava Tubes — A Hidden Network Radar observations hint at enormous lava tubes beneath Venus’s plains. Low gravity and a dense atmosphere may allow thick crusts to preserve underground conduits stretching tens of kilometers—targets for EnVision and VERITAS.
Read More Scince News Space 4 months ago Exploding Primordial Black Hole? PeV Neutrino Clue A 2023 PeV neutrino detected by KM3NeT has prompted a provocative explanation: exploding primordial black holes with a dark charge. This article examines the evidence, theory, and observational tests.
Read More Scince News Space 5 months ago A New Sungrazer: Will Comet MAPS Light Up Our Skies? A newly found member of the Kreutz sungrazers, comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS), will pass within about 120,000 km of the Sun in early April. Observers may see a brightening, fragmentation, or even daytime visibility.
Read More Scince News Space 5 months ago New CT Scans of Mars Rock Reveal Hidden Water Stores Non-destructive X-ray and neutron CT scans of the Martian meteorite NWA 7034 (Black Beauty) uncovered tiny hydrogen-rich iron oxyhydroxide clasts that hold a disproportionate share of the rock's water, informing Mars’ ancient hydrology.
Read More Scince News Space 5 months ago Why Axiom Won the Fifth Private Mission to the ISS NASA has awarded the fifth private astronaut mission to Axiom Space, returning private crews to the ISS in early 2027. The article explains Ax-5, the buy-sell logistics with NASA, Axiom's commercial station plans and its AxEMU lunar suits.
Read More Scince News Space 5 months ago If Earth Needed a Nuke: Rethinking Asteroid Deflection A Nature Communications study shows that asteroid composition — from iron cores to rubble piles — radically alters how a standoff nuclear detonation would transfer momentum, shaping realistic planetary defense plans.
Read More Scince News Space 5 months ago Hydrogen Leaks Postpone NASA’s Artemis II Lunar Flight A hydrogen leak during the Artemis II wet dress rehearsal forced NASA to delay the crewed lunar flyby. Engineers will re-test fueling and inspect seals before committing the four-person crew to launch, highlighting risks of cryogenic propellants.
Read More Scince News Space 5 months ago Moon Rocket Fuel Leak Delays Artemis II Launch Plans A hydrogen leak during Artemis II's dry dress rehearsal halted fueling at Kennedy Space Center, jeopardizing February launch dates and forcing teams to apply fixes learned from earlier SLS tests.
Read More Scince News Space 5 months ago Countdown Begins: NASA’s First Moon Crew in 54 Years NASA has begun a two-day practice countdown and fueling rehearsal for its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, a decisive step toward the first human lunar mission since 1972.
Read More Scince News Space 5 months ago NASA Rover Uses AI Maps to Navigate Mars' Rugged Terrain NASA’s Perseverance rover drove across Mars using maps generated by AI models. JPL and Anthropic validated routes via a digital twin, cutting operator workload and pointing toward more autonomous planetary exploration.
