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NASA announced the X-70 Fractal, a crewed, reconfigurable research plane meant to speed tests of new aviation tech.
Agency leadership shared an update aimed at accelerating Artemis missions and lunar return timelines.
Three companies were selected to develop Ka-band space relay concepts compatible with future NASA missions.
A navigation experiment using drones showed promise for safer, more precise landings on other worlds.
New Hubble observations of NGC 4449 feed a study of how dwarf galaxies lose oxygen through galactic winds.
After decades of theory, researchers reported conclusive evidence for a third magnetic state beyond the two classic types.
MIT scientists overturned a 20-year design assumption, showing flexible molecular connections can yield novel crystal architectures.
Researchers proposed an evolutionary explanation for contralateral wiring between brain and body—still a scientific hypothesis under debate.
An AI-assisted search pointed Stanford researchers to a natural compound that cut appetite and fat in animal studies; human use is not established.
Agency teams are studying ways to keep the Hubble Space Telescope working and avoid an uncontrolled plunge.
Scientists caution that year-round daylight saving time could force billions of extra dark morning school trips for U.S. children.
Researchers described a star whose unusual chemistry, linked to a destroyed planet, produced a striking green appearance.
A 17- to 18-million-year-old ape fossil from Egypt is prompting scientists to revisit where early ape ancestors lived—an early-stage reinterpretation.
A Japanese spacecraft lifted off toward Mars’ moons on a historic sample-return attempt for planetary science.
In southern Norway’s mountains, a long-running glacial archaeology survey recovered 48 Stone Age arrowheads and shafts.
Creatures first spotted in deep Argentine seas—nearly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon—were formally added to the scientific record.
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