Nasa’s DAVINCI probe heat test: 869°F in a Pennsylvania furnace

Nasa engineers have tested whether an engineering model of the DAVINCI Venus descent probe can protect its scientific instruments from the extreme heat it will encounter while travelling through the ...
SW Iowa News Source

Mars’ ‘oddest cloud’ may be even more unusual than scientists thought

The cloud is 1,800 km long, nearly twice the length of the UK, and appears every spring and summer in Mars' southern ...
EarthSky

Black holes could have planets, new simulations suggest

Could black holes have planets? New research says yes, they could. New simulations suggest massive planets could form in the ...
SaltWire

ATLANTIC SKIES: Is the Milky Way Galaxy a composite of thousands of other galaxies?

The Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, a European Space Agency mission. The towers of ...
Nature

The Solar System could die one billion times earlier than thought

Modelling suggests that the planets’ orbits will become destabilized inside one billion years once the Sun starts to shed ...
Vietnam Investment Reviev

Energy transition task force meets to advance Vietnam's grid and storage

The Electricity Authority of Vietnam and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet have convened a task force meeting to advance their energy transition cooperation. Photo: Global Energy ...
Tech Times

Google’s Trillium TPUs Reach Orbit; Radiators Must Beat 15-Minute Heat Limit

Google Project Suncatcher is now in orbit after its MVP satellite launched October 1, 2026, placing four Trillium AI chips in low Earth orbit for the first time. The mission’s central question is not ...
BGR

Astronomers Believe The Solar System Once Had Nine Planets - And The Sun Ate One Of Them

Several decades ago, we thought the solar system had nine planets. Then Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. And then astronomers realized the solar system is full of dwarf planets. Recent ...
New York Post

Reseachers detect a direct radio signal from planet beyond solar system for the first time

A team of astrophysicists have detected a radio signal coming from a planet beyond the solar system for the first time in scientific history, according to bombshell new research. The development is a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mercury Has Wrinkles That Show It’s Shrinking. Now, Scientists Say the Planet Has Shriveled Far More Than Previously Thought

A new study suggests that our solar system’s smallest planet has shrunk by up to 30 percent since its birth roughly 4.5 billion years ago ...
nytimes.com

The Most Promising Worlds Beyond Our Solar System

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether Earth is truly unique. By Natalie Wolchover Natalie is a Pulitzer Prize winning ...
New York Post

Solar system’s smallest planet is getting even smaller — shrinking 30% faster than astronomers thought

There’s less Mercury in the system. Scientists found that Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, is shrinking far faster than previously believed, offering a never-before-seen window into the ...