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Latest · Yesterday · 3 min read NASA's Perseverance rover sets record for distance driven on another world The Mars rover reached 45.22 kilometers of total driving on Oct. 11, 2026, according to ScienceDaily, after pausing near the mark to study ancient rocks. By Roger Morais

Yesterday All five DNA and RNA nucleobases found in samples from asteroid Ryugu, study reports

Nov 4 Study says Van Gogh's The Starry Night shows the real sky over Saint-Rémy

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Wednesday, Nov 42 stories

14:40 Science Hubble and Webb find 27 faint objects beyond Neptune that appear to keep traces of their origins Even the smallest icy bodies in the survey seem to have changed little since the solar system formed, ScienceDaily reported, citing NASA material. Roger Morais · 2 min read

10:30 Science Ohio State researchers present AI model to help choose lunar landing sites The LUMINA framework weighs terrain hazards, water ice and scientific value to assess candidate sites on the Moon, according to Universe Today. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Tuesday, Nov 32 stories

16:30 Science NASA asks companies for ideas on boosting, servicing or retiring the Hubble Space Telescope A Request for Information issued Oct. 29 asks industry about raising Hubble's orbit, upgrading it, or bringing it down safely at the end of its mission. Roger Morais · 2 min read

10:15 Science Overlooked heavy neutrino may help explain why matter survived the Big Bang, study proposes Researchers in Southampton and Kanpur say a long-lived, weakly interacting particle could have shaped the early imbalance between matter and antimatter. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Monday, Nov 21 story

16:00 Science Spacewalkers install seventh new solar array on International Space Station NASA's Anil Menon and the Canadian Space Agency's Joshua Kutryk spent more than seven hours outside the station. One array is left to install. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Sunday, Nov 12 stories

21:00 Science Radio observations add to evidence that Betelgeuse has a close companion star A study using the VLA and ALMA found Betelgeuse's atmosphere turns egg-shaped on a cycle, The companion still has not been confirmed. Roger Morais · 2 min read

14:55 Science Meteorite found in the Sahara is one of the oldest pieces of Mars ever found, NASA-funded study says Scientists dated minerals in Teghaza 001, found in 2022, and say the rock formed more than 4.1 billion years ago and records water interacting with ancient Martian crust. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Saturday, Oct 311 story

12:00 Science Study rules out Jupiter-sized planets in nearby 70 Ophiuchi star system Researchers say a stellar wobble that once suggested a giant planet came from activity on the stars. Smaller worlds may still be there. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Friday, Oct 301 story

11:45 Science Leap second to be scrapped from 2027, letting clocks drift up to an hour from Earth's rotation A resolution adopted at a conference in Versailles ends the leap second. Atomic time and Earth's rotation may drift apart by up to an hour. Roger Morais · 3 min read

Tuesday, Oct 272 stories

11:00 Science Ancient Chinese record of 709 BCE eclipse sharpens estimate of Earth's past rotation Researchers corrected the location of ancient Qufu by about eight kilometers and say a later text may describe the solar corona, ScienceDaily reported. Roger Morais · 2 min read

10:00 Science Europe's CRISTAL ice-monitoring satellite finishes assembly and passes first solar wing test ESA says the polar ice satellite is moving into environmental testing ahead of a launch targeted for late 2027 to early 2028. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Monday, Oct 262 stories

17:45 Science Astronomers report possible first moon beyond the Solar System, circling a brown dwarf A team using ESO's Very Large Telescope says it has found a giant object orbiting a brown dwarf in the CD-35 2722 system. The finding has not been confirmed. Roger Morais · 2 min read

09:45 Science Satellite data suggest 2026 El Niño could rival or exceed the strong 1997-98 event NASA Earth Observatory compared sea level maps from 1997 and 2026 and found similar patterns, but a NASA scientist says the effects this winter are still uncertain. Roger Morais · 3 min read

Sunday, Oct 251 story

11:30 Science Bennu samples suggest the asteroid formed from mixed dust near the early Solar System's water-ice line A chemical analysis by ETH Zurich researchers challenges the idea that Bennu came from the outer Solar System and points to a role for Jupiter, ScienceDaily reports. Roger Morais · 3 min read

Saturday, Oct 244 stories

21:30 Science Largest supernova catalog adds evidence that dark energy may change over time A team led by the University of Queensland combined 2,884 exploding white dwarf stars into one dataset, and it departs from cosmology's standard model. Roger Morais · 2 min read

18:30 Science Researchers name 27 giant exoplanets as targets for planned private Lazuli Space Telescope A new target list for Lazuli's ExtraSolar Coronagraph focuses on known giant planets that could be imaged by the starlight they reflect. Roger Morais · 2 min read

13:25 Science Marsquake traced to active fault deep beneath Valles Marineris, study finds Researchers say a 2021 quake recorded by NASA's InSight lander came from ancient faults slipping beneath Mars' largest canyon system. Roger Morais · 3 min read

04:15 Science NASA safety adviser cites estimate of 22 Starship flights to fuel a Moon lander; Musk says it is too high A member of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel gave the figure at a quarterly meeting. Elon Musk replied that the real number will be closer to 6 to 8. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Thursday, Oct 222 stories

23:25 Science Exeter train delay blamed on a solar storm was in 1848, not 1841, researchers say A study finds a dating error in an 1871 account, so the Exeter incident is no longer the earliest known case of space weather disrupting technology. Roger Morais · 2 min read

09:41 Science Search for nearby isolated black holes finds Gaia candidates, but no supporting signals Researchers found five possible black holes within about 50 light-years of the Sun, but infrared and radio checks suggest they are unlikely to be real. Roger Morais · 3 min read

Wednesday, Oct 211 story

13:00 Science Researchers map where ancient Martian rain may have delivered formaldehyde A simulation suggests some regions, including Tharsis and Elysium, received about ten times the global average of a molecule linked to early life chemistry. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Tuesday, Oct 202 stories

16:45 Science NASA's simulated Mars crew passes one year in Houston habitat, due to exit Oct. 31 Four volunteers in NASA's second CHAPEA mission have lived in isolation since Oct. 19, 2025. No health or performance results have been released yet. Roger Morais · 2 min read

12:13 Europe Russian satellite came very close to US-owned imaging satellite used by Ukraine, tracker says Ars Technica, citing LeoLabs, reports that Kosmos 2612 approached, circled and stayed near ICEYE-X36 in low-Earth orbit before moving away. Roger Morais · 3 min read

Monday, Oct 192 stories

08:32 Science Dogs may link 'Bouba' with round shapes and 'Kiki' with spiky ones, study suggests ScienceAlert reports on research from the University of Parma that tested 70 dogs on a sound and shape association long studied in humans. Roger Morais · 2 min read

08:31 Europe About 690 students from 13 countries launch rockets in Portugal at European Rocketry Challenge The seventh edition of the competition, created by the Portuguese Space Agency, now counts the European Space Agency as a strategic partner providing financial support. Roger Morais · 3 min read

Sunday, Oct 184 stories

19:34 Science Study of massive early galaxy cluster El Gordo points to dark matter that interacts with itself Simulations of the colliding cluster fit a two-state self-interacting dark matter model best, Universe Today reported, though uncertain measurements leave the result open. Roger Morais · 2 min read

10:41 Science Black holes of vastly different sizes may launch delayed jets at the same feeding point A study in Nature Astronomy links late jets from star-shredding supermassive black holes to a threshold already seen in much smaller ones, ScienceDaily reported. Roger Morais · 2 min read

10:33 Science Webb observations show early galaxy cluster with unexpectedly dense core, ScienceDaily reports Three studies of cluster XLSSC 122, about 10.4 billion light-years away, suggest some cosmic structures may have formed faster than current models predict. Roger Morais · 2 min read

10:21 Science NASA's Roman Space Telescope camera beats its image quality target by nearly 30% ScienceDaily reports that tests and tiny mirror adjustments left Roman's main camera sharper than engineers predicted before launch. Roger Morais · 2 min read

Saturday, Oct 171 story

23:33 Science Search of nearby binary star 70 Oph AB finds no giant planets, study reports University of Michigan astronomers found that wobbles in the two stars come from stellar activity, not planets. Smaller worlds have not been ruled out. Roger Morais · 2 min read