O administrador da NASA, Jared Isaacman, nomeou Stephen Cash diretor do Centro de Voo Espacial Marshall da agência em Huntsville, Alabama, a partir de segunda-f…
Ouça a sessão ou assista abaixo: Pode a IA projetar novas formas de vida? Em 2025, o estudante de doutorado da Universidade de Stanford, Samuel King, chegou a u…
Arqueólogos descobriram um antigo acampamento em Alaska que possui evidências da mais antiga moradia e possivelmente os primeiros cães domesticados nas Américas…
O Museu Henry Ford, ícone da inovação americana em Dearborn, Michigan, é agora a terceira parada (segunda nos EUA) da exposição itinerante de blocos LEGO Artemi…
Uma busca nacional por lagostins gigantes revelou um espécime recorde no Tennessee e um mistério surpreendente sobre o quanto essas criaturas de água doce podem…
Os astronautas da missão Crew-12 da SpaceX desejam que todos pudéssemos ver a Terra como eles acabaram de ver — como um posto avançado belo, mas frágil, de vida…
Shortly after NASA’s Artemis II mission splashed down on April 10, 2026, U.S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. In …
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Atoms confined to a single line can bind into clusters called Bethe strings. A new experiment points to a mix of many such clusters, though the evidence is stil…
Scientists investigating Nazi Germany's secret nuclear program have uncovered evidence that its final experimental reactor was nowhere near as close to working …
As the supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage, and NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket roared to life, Allison Mjoen and her family watched with …
More than 5 million people around the world with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) experience atrophy in their retinas. And until now, no treatment could r…
The newly identified Invictibellatrix amberina lived about 120 million years ago and represents the first megaraptoran dinosaur found in Europe, according to a …
If you love watching meteors, 2026 has given you plenty to enjoy. This summer, the annual Perseid meteor shower peaked on the day of a new moon — and a solar ec…
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellati…
I. Meet cute Barnabas and Mainspring grew up near at hand, about an hour apart with good traffic, but for a long time they weren’t close. They traded glimpses a…
Stellar cores called white dwarfs come in an astonishing array of colors, including what scientists say is the first known green star and the reddest star ever …
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have unravelled some of the secrets of a bizarre, blisteringly hot exoplanet that has the consistenc…
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I don’t remember much about Peppy, my first and only pet cat. I can conjure the sensation of stroking her while she purred, recall how she used to get stuck in …