6+ hour, 25+ min ago  (645+ words) The space industry witnessed another dramatic moment today after Blue Origin suffered a major setback involving its massive New Glenn rocket during testing in Florida. The incident quickly became one of the most searched space-related topics online, with thousands of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1044+ words) Scientists have discovered that Saturn's northern lights cause winds to imitate variations in the planet's spin and heat one side of the upper atmosphere. A long-standing discrepancy between Saturn's actual rotation and the signals astronomers have used to track it…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (838+ words) The story begins in the Kuiper Belt, a vast region beyond Neptune filled with icy remnants from the early Solar System. Objects in this region, often called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), typically follow a wide variety of orbits. However, astronomers noticed…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (758+ words) Below are some of the most significant breakthroughs in space science made possible'or dramatically accelerated'by machine learning. Traditional detection pipelines produced large numbers of false positives. To address this, researchers trained convolutional neural networks to recognize the signature of real…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (957+ words) On Earth, geology is inseparable from habitability. Plate tectonics regulate the carbon cycle, volcanic outgassing replenishes the atmosphere, and mantle convection drives magnetic field generation. When astronomers detect hints of similar processes beyond our Solar System, they are not merely…...