- September 23, 2026
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Betelgeuse Is Not Alone: Astronomers Have the Image to Prove It
Betelgeuse is one of the most studied stars in the sky. It sits at the shoulder of the constellation Orion, visible to the naked eye.
Sunlight Proves Sufficient to Produce Quantum Entanglement, Study Finds
Researchers have demonstrated that sunlight can be used to generate quantum-entangled photon pairs.
Mars Is Leaking — And Scientists Finally Caught the Waves Doing It
A new study published on July 31 has delivered the clearest picture yet of one of the key mechanisms behind Mars’ atmospheric loss.
The Chip That Wants to Think in Orbit
In July 2026, Intel unveiled Starfire: its first processor built from the ground up for space.
China Caught a Falling Rocket in a Net at Sea — and the Space Race Just Got a Lot More Interesting
On the morning of July 10, 2026, over the South China Sea, the first stage of a Long March 10B rocket fell back through the sky.
Scientists Made Time Run Backward in a Quantum System
Los Alamos National Laboratory has built a set of quantum tools that can make a physical system behave as though time is running in reverse.
The Machine That Learned to Fight Viruses
A research team at the University of Cambridge let an artificial intelligence design the vaccine.
Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.
In 1973, John Archibald Wheeler captured the relationship between matter and space-time in two concise statements: “Space acts on matter, telling it how to move.
A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA is racing to rescue it
Before the end of the month, a robotic spacecraft will launch on an unprecedented rescue mission. Its target is NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a
The Last Astronomers. Amid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their field
One afternoon in April, Cecilia Garraffo sat at the head of a conference room table in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and looked out at what might be