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Starship's white launch plume rising over the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast, photographed from the International Space Station

FAA Reviews 456 Starship Launches a Year From Boca Chica, Up From 25

Boca Chica, Texas, is licensed for three Starship launches a year after dark. A Federal Aviation Administration review opened this week sets a ceiling of 456 launches, assumes half would fly at

October 16, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Landsat 8 satellite image of snow-capped Mount Taranaki in New Zealand ringed by dark forest inside a circular protected-area boundary, surrounded by green farmland

World May Already Conserve 27% of Its Land, Just Not Where It Counts

Official records miss land that is already being conserved, a Nature study led by the University of Kent says, putting the 30 percent goal closer than thought. The extra land, though, often sits in ecoregions that are already well covered,

October 15, 2026

by Technology Desk

Satellite view of grey smoke plumes streaming across the Amazon River and rainforest from fires near Manaus and Santarem on October 12, 2026

Smoke Shuts Manaus Schools as October Fire Detections Near Triple

Smoke from Amazon fires closed schools in Manaus on October 12, and INPE's data show October

Side-by-side view of the Orion heat shields from Artemis I, left, with visible cracking, and Artemis II, right, after removal from their crew modules

Artemis II Heat Shield Had 9 Char-Loss Spots; Artemis I Had 103

NASA says post-flight analysis shows the Artemis II Orion heat shield had nine spots of char

Static ground test of ISRO's SOLVE rocket motor at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota

ISRO Test-Fires the Rocket That Will Teach Gaganyaan’s Astronauts How to Fall Safely

ISRO fired a new rocket motor for ten hours at Sriharikota to validate the parachute system that must safely bring Gaganyaan's crew module back to Earth. The agency still has not said

July 5, 2026

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KAIST spray powder stops severe bleeding in one second hemostatic research 2026

KAIST’s Spray Powder Stops Severe Bleeding in One Second

A research team at KAIST has developed a sprayable powder that stops severe bleeding in roughly one second by converting blood into a hydrogel barrier. Made from natural compounds, it outperformed commercial

July 5, 2026

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NASA infographic comparing the habitable zones of different classes of stars, including red dwarfs like Gliese 3378

A Planet 25 Light-Years Away Just Became Astronomy’s Best Argument for Looking Closer to Home

Astronomers have confirmed Gliese 3378b, a super-Earth 25 light-years away receiving almost the same energy from its star as Earth does from the Sun. Whether it can actually support life depends on

July 5, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

NASA supercomputer visualization of an observer plunging toward and through the event horizon of a supermassive black hole

Scientists Confirm Hawking Radiation Backreaction for the First Time in a Lab

An international team confirmed for the first time that Hawking radiation feeds energy back onto the system generating it, validating Hawking's 1974 mass-loss prediction. Published in Nature, the fibre-optic result also opens

July 5, 2026

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AGCL spray powder development schematic and gelation performance panels from KAIST research

KAIST’s Spray Powder Stops Severe Bleeding in One Second

July 5, 2026

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NASA Perseverance rover Mastcam-Z image of the Cheyava Falls rock at Bright Angel formation in Jezero Crater Mars where macromolecular organic carbon was detected

Perseverance Rover Detects Most Complex Organic Carbon Yet Found on Martian Rock Surface

Perseverance detected macromolecular organic carbon in Bright Angel mudstones at Jezero Crater, the most robust organic detection yet in Jezero. The Science Advances study suggests ancient Mars had organic chemistry spread across

July 5, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

GWTC-5.0 Stellar Graveyard chart showing 390 gravitational wave detections from black hole and neutron star mergers

Gravitational Wave Catalog Reaches 390 Detections With 161 New Black Hole Collisions

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration released GWTC-5.0, adding 161 new black hole mergers and pushing the total to 390 detections since 2015. The catalog delivers a record-breaking signal, new evidence for second-generation black holes,

July 5, 2026

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NASA technicians remove protective cover from Swift Observatory solar array at Cape Canaveral in 2004

A Rocket Problem Grounds NASA’s Third Attempt to Rescue the Swift Telescope

For the third time in less than a week NASA's mission to rescue the Swift space telescope from orbital decay has been stopped on the ground, now by a rocket anomaly rather

July 3, 2026

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Illustration of a synthetic biological cell similar to SpudCell developed at University of Minnesota

Researchers Build the First Synthetic Cell That Grows, Divides and Evolves

A University of Minnesota team has published a preprint describing SpudCell, a synthetic cell built from nonliving chemical components that can grow, divide, and show natural selection. The findings have not been

July 3, 2026

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Artist's conception of the view from the surface of super-Earth exoplanet GJ 3378b or Gliese 3378b

A Potentially Habitable World 25 Light-Years Away Is Now Half as Massive as Scientists Thought

New measurements from McDonald Observatory halve the mass of GJ 3378b a habitable-zone super-Earth 25 light-years away making it more likely rocky than gas-wrapped. The planet sits at the cosmic shoreline where

July 3, 2026

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FAA Reviews 456 Starship Launches a Year From Boca Chica, Up From 25

World May Already Conserve 27% of Its Land, Just Not Where It Counts

Smoke Shuts Manaus Schools as October Fire Detections Near Triple

Artemis II Heat Shield Had 9 Char-Loss Spots; Artemis I Had 103

ISRO Test-Fires the Rocket That Will Teach Gaganyaan’s Astronauts How to Fall Safely

KAIST’s Spray Powder Stops Severe Bleeding in One Second

A Planet 25 Light-Years Away Just Became Astronomy’s Best Argument for Looking Closer to Home

Scientists Confirm Hawking Radiation Backreaction for the First Time in a Lab

KAIST’s Spray Powder Stops Severe Bleeding in One Second

Perseverance Rover Detects Most Complex Organic Carbon Yet Found on Martian Rock Surface

Gravitational Wave Catalog Reaches 390 Detections With 161 New Black Hole Collisions

A Rocket Problem Grounds NASA’s Third Attempt to Rescue the Swift Telescope

Researchers Build the First Synthetic Cell That Grows, Divides and Evolves

A Potentially Habitable World 25 Light-Years Away Is Now Half as Massive as Scientists Thought

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