Space.com headlines crossword quiz for week of Jan. 5, 2026: The moon met which bright star in the night sky this week?
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Decades of human activity have left “irreversible damage” to the planet’s water supply, a new report warns....
Article URL: https://longnow.org/ideas/the-26000-year-astronomical-monument-hidden-in-plain-sight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695628 Points: 11 # Comments: 0...
Most of the US is bracing for a prolonged stretch of frigid weather and a massive winter storm that could wreak havoc on roads and power grids over the next several days. At least 170 million American...
3I/ATLAS is heading away from the sun on an escape trajectory from our solar system....
Here in France, as well as countries including Hungary, Greenland and Germany, some residents have been lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the northern lights. These vibrant scenes are the result of t...
Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760099 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea min...
A cow in Austria has been observed using tools ― the first time such behavior has been recorded in cattle. Have we underestimated the gentle bovines all this time?...
Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's planets formed....
The lunar crescent will disappear below the horizon before midnight on Jan. 22....
The frozen areas of our planet act as a historical record of changes in the atmosphere and climate...
The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new "superfast rotator" asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever found....
I built NukeCast because I’ve always wanted a tool that answers one question fast. If it happened today, where would the fallout plumes go and where would you drive to get out of it. NukeCast uses wea...
NASA has ended Crew-11's space stay a few weeks early due to a "lingering risk" to an astronaut's health. The crew is now on its way back to Earth....
It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it's possible to do...
Scientists studying Jurassic rocks in China found that cyclical changes in Earth's orbit affected not only the climate, but also the development of shale oil reserves....
Send Help opens in theaters on January 30. I’m really shooting myself in the foot here, but I feel compelled to open with a statement which itself constitutes a fulsome review of Send Help, and I’d to...
Here's what to know about staying warm and safe during freezing temperatures....
For decades researchers in northern Norway had tried to bring back vital kelp forests after overfishing damaged marine ecosystems. Now a simple solution is proving successful....