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James Webb telescope previews the death of the sun in glorious new 'Eye of God' image - Live Science
By Jamie Carter |January 25, 2026 |5 min read
A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a dying sunlike star is enriching the galaxy with the elements needed for life.
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40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned - NPR
By Howard Berkes |January 25, 2026
Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.
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Artemis II astronauts train in Iceland for lunar geology - WRAL
By Tony Rice, NASA Ambassador |January 24, 2026
Lunar like landscapes in Iceland and Canada provide training grounds for astronauts.
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Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879? - Ars Technica
By Jennifer Ouellette • 2 days ago
Rice University chemists replicated Thomas Edison's seminal experiment and found a surprising byproduct.
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NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly - KSL.com
By Jackie Wattles, CNN • 2 days ago
When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as Feb. 6, they'll climb aboard NASA's 16.5-foot-wide Orion spacecraft with the understanding that it has a known flaw.
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Russian Scientists Build Plasma Engine That Could Reach Mars in 30 Days, Leaving Spacex's Starship Looking Obsolete - Indian Defence Review
By Arezki Amiri • 2 days ago
Russia is quietly testing a new space engine that could change everything about how we reach Mars. Early results suggest a leap in speed and tech no one saw coming, and it’s not coming from NASA or SpaceX.
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A Red and Green Sky Over Europe? NASA’s Photo From Space Shows the Full Spectacle - The Daily Galaxy
By Sarah Jones • 2 days ago
A mysterious red and green glow swept across Europe, captured from 262 miles up.
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Vandenberg’s Next Mission: SpaceX Rocket Launch on Sunday Morning - noozhawk.com
By Janene Scully | Noozhawk North County Editor • 2 days ago
What: Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. When: Between 7:17 and 11:17 a.m. Sunday, according to SpaceX. If needed,
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NASA Scientist Looked Into 50-Year-Old Moon Dirt, Here’s What He Found - The Daily Galaxy
By Melissa Ait Lounis • 2 days ago
What if the key to Earth’s oceans had been hidden on the Moon all along? A surprising lunar discovery is turning old theories upside down.
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A new three-way single step rearrangement enables precise ring editing - Phys.org
By Sanjukta Mondal • 2 days ago
A new three-way bond-breaking and making mechanism makes the synthesis of five-membered rings easier than before.
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A year after undermining Bredt's rule, scientists make cage-shaped, double-bonded molecules that defy expectations - Phys.org
By University of California, Los Angeles • 2 days ago
Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking chemical bonds. The rules governing how these bonds, which hold atoms together in molecules, form and the shapes they give molecules are oft…
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Ancient Spanish trees reveal Mediterranean storms are intensifying - Phys.org
By Hannah Bird • 2 days ago
Ancient pine trees growing in the Iberian mountains of eastern Spain have quietly recorded more than five centuries of Mediterranean weather. Now, by reading the annual growth rings preserved in their wood, scientists have uncovered a striking message: today'…
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480,000-year-old ax sharpener is the oldest known elephant bone tool ever discovered in Europe - Live Science
By Aristos Georgiou • 2 days ago
The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a million years ago.
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This Polish Astronaut Filmed the Earth and Moon from Space, It's the Most Beautiful Thing You’ll See Today - The Daily Galaxy
By Sarah Jones • 2 days ago
A Polish astronaut spent 20 days aboard the ISS and captured stunning timelapse footage of Earth and the Moon.
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Scientists Astonished by Glimpse of Huge, Ancient Ocean on Mars - Futurism
By Victor Tangermann • 2 days ago
Researchers used satellite data to calculate and simulate the sea level in a canyon, getting a glimpse of a huge ocean.
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January's full Wolf Moon leaps past the Eiffel Tower in stunning photo of Paris skyline - Space
By Anthony Wood • 2 days ago
The Wolf Moon is named for the hungry predators that sometimes can be heard howling in the winter month.
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Joshua trees are flowering in the Calif. desert. That’s bad news. - SFGATE
By Erin Rode • 2 days ago
Joshua trees normally start flowering in February. This year, the bloom started in late October.
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'Zombie Worms' Have Mysteriously Vanished, Troubling Scientists - ScienceAlert
By Jess Cockerill • 2 days ago
Fallen whale carcasses offer islands of nutrition within an otherwise sparse seafloor, and with help from bone-eating zombie worms, they can sustain an entire ecosystem for decades.
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Stanford Scientists Reveal Oldest Map of the Night Sky, Previously Lost to Time - KQED
By Ayah Ali-Ahmad • 2 days ago
SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.
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A Children’s Art Book Inspired by 3I/ATLAS - Avi Loeb – Medium
By Avi Loeb • 2 days ago
Before my morning jog at sunrise, I was delighted to receive the following email from a school teacher in Brazil:
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