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Japan is preparing to launch the world’s first wooden satellite, LignoSat, later this year. Made from magnolia wood, the satellite aims to tackle the growing issue of space pollution, particularly the aluminum particles released when…

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may be made of two different moons that smashed together hundreds of millions of years ago, a new study suggests. If confirmed, this epic collision could also help to solve several long-standing mysteries…

A pair of gut bacteria may cause constipation

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen

In Andy Weir’s bestselling novel The Martian, foul-mouthed protagonist Mark Watney “sciences the shit” out of his circumstances to survive being stranded on Mars. The result is an engrossing work of science fiction,…

While many theories have suggested that comets and asteroids brought water to Earth after its formation, a new study proposes a bold alternative: Earth’s core might be storing the equivalent of 45 oceans of water as hydrogen.

The study,…

NASA astronaut Chris Williams has shared an enchanting view of fireworks exploding in the sky over Beijing from the International Space Station (ISS), as millions gathered on the world below to celebrate Lunar New Year on the night of Feb. 17.

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As humanity pushes the boundaries of space exploration, one of the key challenges is how to access resources from distant asteroids. A recent study published in npj Microgravity has revealed groundbreaking findings on how microbes,…

The research, presented in two papers in Physical Review A, describes adjustable exchange statistics and a method to map them. It extends a concept once confined to two-dimensional materials into an even more constrained quantum…

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has delivered extraordinary video footage showing towering ice mountains on Pluto’s moon Nix. These ice peaks, some rising as high as 11,000 feet, are made of pure water ice and behave like rock due to the…

19/02/2026
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For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature…