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OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna put $5.5 million toward buying the 63-acre Moon Camp shoreline at Big Bear Lake, stopping a planned 50-home marina near the Jackie and Shadow bald eagle nest Space Daily

China unveils plans to beat US in retrieving Mars samples Yahoo Tianwen-3 mission enters prototype phase, prioritizing search for Martian life traces: chief scientist Global Times Chief scientist of Tianwen-3 mission says search for signs of life on Mars is top goal The Macau Post Daily China Moves…

US soldiers stormed a desert city in preparation for a high-tech war against a top foe. Here's how it went. Business Insider

Is There Alien Debris on the Moon? Some Scientists Plan to Find Out. The New York Times

Have scientists discovered a dark matter particle? aljazeera.com Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange The New York Times A suspicious signal in a dark-matter detector has physicists excited The Economist Did Scientists Just Catch a Glimpse of a Dark Matter Particle?…

BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury The Register Spacecraft bound for Mercury begins 'tricky' arrival Phys.org After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury Ars Technica 'A new mission starting today': 8 years after launch, BepiColombo…

Here’s where a massive solar storm could take down the US power grid CNN The Economic Costs of Solar Storms eos.org Alaska researcher finds extreme solar storms could pack an even bigger punch Peninsula Clarion Solar storm study maps U.S. power grid risk, daily losses qz.com Strong solar activity…

Massive study reveals how much personality comes from DNA Yahoo Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality Nature Scientists Find More Than 1,000 Genetic Variants Linked to Personality The New York Times Personality Is Linked to Genes, New Study Finds Time Magazine…

Spacecraft Settles for Photos of NASA's Sinking Telescope Newser Rescue satellite gets close to NASA's doomed telescope, even if it can't save it ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos Commercial Spacecraft for NASA’s Swift Boost Continues Tech Demo NASA Science (.gov) NASA's doomed Swift…

For nearly 50 years, Venus’s clouds have been understood as droplets of concentrated sulfuric acid—but a 2025 reinterpretation of data inadvertently collected by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Large Probe in 1978 suggests their aerosols may instead be about 60 p Space Daily

Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed Ars Technica Completing the connectome: How pursuing a map of the fly brain rewired neuroscience Phys.org A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain Google Research How the brain of a fly may help explain human behaviour…

Roman Space Telescope live updates: NASA begins spacecraft commissioning process SpaceSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News

NASA’s latest mission to map the cosmos takes off The Economist NASA’s Roman Completes First Mid-Course Correction Burn NASA Science (.gov) Opinion | Congressional Lawmakers Reach for the Stars WSJ Roman Rises! Five Things to Know About NASA's New Space Telescope Universe Today

Scientists find a huge 10-sided wave pattern swirling in the clouds over Saturn’s south pole AP News NASA’s Hubble Tracks New Decagon Encircling Saturn’s South Pole NASA Science (.gov) What the Heck? Another Perfect Geometric Shape Has Been Detected on Saturn WIRED 10-sided wave spotted on Saturn’s…

With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx trumani—often nicknamed the "American cheetah"—was long thought to be a North American analog of the African big cat. But in a new study published in the journal Current Biology, researchers reveal that the extinct cat was more closely…

As the electronics in our technology keep shrinking, traditional silicon-based chips are approaching their fundamental physical limits. Yet the wires connecting them might be able to shrink beyond conventional dimensions, as scientists have created one of the longest single-atom copper chains to…

The Pantone color of the year for 2026 is white. It's called Cloud Dancer, which is described as a "lofty white." This choice reflects a growing trend away from color in our visual world.

Using more than 15 years of observations from the Parkes radio telescope, astronomers detected three rotational glitches in the pulsar PSR J1637−4642—a young neutron star that had shown no signs of glitches since its discovery. The three glitches included one that changed its rotation rate by…