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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Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace....
For the first time in the International Space Station's history, NASA safely returned a crew of four astronauts to Earth ahead of schedule due to medical issues affecting one of the group....
Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first...
NASA is returning four astronauts to Earth early from the International Space Station due to a medical concern with one of the Crew-11 astronauts. Here's the latest news....
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/maggots-incredibly-efficient-source-protein-may-make-them-next-superfood-humans-180987847/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
Dr. Sue Hwang, a radiation oncologist, said her own experience with breast cancer helped her see vulnerability as a strength instead of a weakness. Tim Brown Oncologist Sue Hwang was diagnosed with br...
Article URL: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15407 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621518 Points: 6 # Comments: 0...
Droughts, hurricanes and wildfires are becoming the new normal. Global temperatures have shattered records for more than a decade....
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-renewable-photo-essay Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630369 Points: 18 # Comments: 0...
The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new "superfast rotator" asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever found....
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....
Article URL: https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/12/for-21-years-enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-uc-berkeley-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found/ Comments URL: http...
After a four-year hiatus, conservationists in New Zealand are relieved that the flightless kākāpo is once again breeding. Fewer than 300 of the parrots exist....
Kimiya Yui released the timelapse footage to celebrate his 300th cumulative day spent orbiting Earth....
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....
A medical emergency will force four astronauts aboard the International Space Station to return to Earth prematurely....
NASA carried out its first medical evacuation from the International Space Station after an astronaut required care, bringing four crew members back to Earth earlier than planned. The early return tem...
I am a student and co-founder of an accessibility startup. Balancing product development with exams broke my workflow, so I looked for a debugger. Mathematica Successūs is my attempt to model the "Sel...