| ESA’s Juice Just Skimmed Earth’s Atmosphere on Its Way to Jupiter | | 2026-10-06 10:30:25 +00:00
 The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) made a close pass by Earth on September 28, skimming the outermost reaches of the atmosphere and using the planet’s gravity to reshape its journey toward Jupiter while conserving fuel. The maneuver changed Juice’s direction by 20° compared with its earlier trajectory and boosted its speed [...]
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| NASA’s Roman Telescope Just Took a Big Step Toward Seeing Alien Worlds | | 2026-10-06 09:55:27 +00:00
 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has completed key guidance tests and given its Coronagraph Instrument its first look at the cosmos. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has passed an important series of pointing tests, showing that it can remain extremely steady while observing distant targets. The tests, conducted from September 15 to 21, [...]
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| Don’t Miss: Saturn, Halley’s Comet Meteors and the Seven Sisters Light Up October | | 2026-10-06 09:20:29 +00:00
 October brings several notable skywatching events, including Saturn at opposition, the Orionid meteor shower, and a close pairing of the Moon with the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. Skywatching Highlights October 4: Saturn reaches opposition, making the ringed planet visible for much of the night October 6: A thin crescent Moon appears close [...]
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| New Antibody Treatment Silences Nerve Pain for Days Without Blocking Normal Pain | | 2026-10-05 23:45:44 +00:00
 A new antibody-based approach may be able to suppress abnormal nerve pain without dulling the body’s normal warning signals. Neuropathic pain can persist after an injury because damaged nerves may continue sending pain signals even when no new tissue damage is occurring. In a new preclinical study, researchers found that antibodies targeting a pain-related sodium [...]
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| Scientists Discover 5 Hidden Forms of a Liver Disease Affecting 30% of Adults | | 2026-10-05 23:10:26 +00:00
 A liver disease affecting nearly 30% of adults worldwide may not be one condition at all, with researchers identifying five distinct forms linked to different biological pathways and health risks. Fat can accumulate in the liver for years without causing obvious symptoms, even as damage progresses toward inflammation, scarring, cancer, or irreversible liver failure. The [...]
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| Could Vitamin C Help Stop Leukemia Before It Starts? | | 2026-10-05 22:35:22 +00:00
 Researchers are investigating whether restoring vitamin C levels can influence the biology of early blood disorders before leukemia develops. A clinical trial suggests that correcting vitamin C deficiency may benefit people with certain blood disorders that can precede leukemia. Results from the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 EVITA trial found that participants who took 1,000 [...]
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| Two Laser Pulses Unlock Electron States Physicists Had Never Reached Before | | 2026-10-05 19:48:16 +00:00
 Two ultrashort laser pulses crossed in space have unlocked previously inaccessible electron states. At the point where two ultrashort laser pulses cross, physicists can now make light oscillate through all three dimensions of space. That unusual geometry matters because some electronic quantum states have remained out of reach in experiments, even when theory said they [...]
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| Inside Germany’s Doomed B8 Nuclear Project | | 2026-10-05 19:13:12 +00:00
 Nazi Germany’s final nuclear reactor was nowhere near ready, lacking roughly half the uranium and heavy water it needed to work. When American forces dismantled Nazi Germany’s final experimental nuclear reactor in 1945, they found a machine that its scientific leader, Werner Heisenberg, would later describe as tantalizingly close to working. Known as the B8 [...]
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| AI May Seem Human-Like, but That Doesn’t Mean People Think It’s Conscious | | 2026-10-05 18:38:19 +00:00
 A new study suggests that people do not equate human-like AI behavior with human-like consciousness. Artificial intelligence can respond to sounds, recognize emotions, adapt to its surroundings, and behave in ways that closely resemble human reactions. Yet people still hesitate to believe that such behavior reflects consciousness. A new study from LMU finds that even [...]
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| Researchers Reveal How Aggressive Breast Cancer May Spread to the Brain | | 2026-10-05 14:46:23 +00:00
 A preclinical study links a protein to triple-negative breast cancer’s ability to spread to the brain and evade the brain’s immune defenses. Triple-negative breast cancer is more likely than many other breast cancers to spread to the brain, where treatment options are limited, and outcomes are often poor. Researchers at Wake Forest University School of [...]
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| Your Voice May Reveal How Fast Your Brain Is Aging | | 2026-10-05 14:11:36 +00:00
 Researchers have developed a machine-learning “speech clock” that estimates age from subtle patterns in how people speak and what they say. It is possible that people’s voices may contain certain signals of aging that go beyond their chronological age. According to a recent study of nearly 3,000 people from Latin America, machine learning was used [...]
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| Scientists Catch Virus-Like Particles Building Themselves in Real Time | | 2026-10-05 11:29:11 +00:00
 A new single-molecule approach has exposed fleeting stages in viral shell formation that were previously hidden. Oxford University researchers have watched a virus-like particle assemble one step at a time, revealing how protein components navigate countless possible arrangements to build a stable shell. The study, published in Nature, shows that assembly depends on weak, reversible [...]
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| 518-Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges What We Thought Starfish Came From | | 2026-10-05 10:54:47 +00:00
 A creature preserved for 518 million years hints that the starfish family began with tentacles, challenging a long-standing picture of its earliest ancestor. Fossils discovered in southwestern China suggest that an animal called Yujingia glutenotunica lived close to the evolutionary roots of ambulacrarians, the group that includes starfish, sea urchins, and acorn worms. Its anatomy [...]
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| NASA’s Bennu Samples Reveal a Surprising Origin Story | | 2026-10-05 01:17:51 +00:00
 Instead of forming far out where comets took shape, Bennu may have emerged near the young solar system’s water-ice line, where Jupiter helped shape the mixture of dust that built the asteroid. Understanding exactly how the planets formed 4.5 billion years ago requires looking at material that has hardly changed since the solar system was [...]
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| Earth and Mars Were Formed in Fundamentally Different Ways, Study Finds | | 2026-10-05 00:42:57 +00:00
 Earth and Mars may have formed through different mixtures of planetary building processes, despite developing side by side. Earth and Mars formed near each other about 4.5 billion years ago, yet new research suggests they grew through very different processes. “The most surprising result was that Earth and Mars appear to have formed in different [...]
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| NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Mars Had a Far More Complicated Water History Than Expected | | 2026-10-05 00:07:50 +00:00
 A new study suggests that Jezero Crater’s mysterious “Margin Unit” records a surprisingly complicated history involving ancient lakes, groundwater, and heated fluids moving through the Martian subsurface. When NASA’s Perseverance rover arrived at the inner rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater in September 2023, scientists expected to encounter sedimentary rock. The region, known as the “Margin [...]
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