APOD: 2026 September 7 – The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars
Explanation: The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North…
Sparrow Quantum Sets Record With 500 Million Usable Photons Per Second
Insider Brief Sparrow Quantum and Ruhr University Bochum developed a deterministic source that delivers more than 500 million…
Rocket Lab’s Neutron Just Slipped Again. Here’s the Only Date That Still Matters for Shareholders.
Uh-oh. Here we go again! It’s been nearly five years since Sir Peter Beck, the founder and CEO…
Are we the aliens? Earth could be sending life to Venus, say scientists
A study suggests that microscopic life blasted off Earth by asteroid impacts could have reached Venus’s atmosphere over…
Magnetism likely played a key role in early solar system formation – Physics World
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Brain Cells Once Thought to Help May Actually Drive Cognitive Decline
For decades, scientists assumed that oligodendrocytes, the cells that produce myelin, the protective coating around nerve fibers, were…
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Perseverance filmed Phobos crossing the Sun again on 12 August 2026 — the same potato-shaped moon whose orbit is slowly decaying toward Mars
On 12 August 2026, NASA’s Perseverance rover pointed its Mastcam-Z camera up into the pale Martian sky and…
A Bright Spot at Mount Michael
Winter near the Antarctic Circle brings months of frozen darkness, when sea ice chokes ocean waters and many…
One of the largest spiders in the world remains largely unstudied
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JADES-GS-z14-0, a galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, already contained oxygen less than 300 million years after the Big Bang — a finding confirmed by ALMA, suggesting generations of massive stars had already been born, lived and died, scattering newly forged elements into space billions of years before our Sun existed.
JADES-GS-z14-0 already contained oxygen when the universe was less than 300 million years old. Two teams reported the…
Starwatch: Waning crescent moon gets close to brilliant beacon of Jupiter | Astronomy
Those already out and about at 5am this week will be rewarded with a beautiful waning crescent moon…