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....
2026 will leave stargazers spoiled for sights in the sky, with four eclipse events, multiple meteor showers and several supermoons....
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....
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BYh9ZtEv4k7xoSXmtf1q... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641216 Points: 31 # Comments: 4...
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.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/01/Earth_from_Space_The_fate_of_a_giant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649813 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
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....
From Orion's glowing nebula to the sparkling Pleiades, these winter targets reward anyone willing to brave the cold....
Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's planets formed....
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...
Article URL: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/crisis/crisis.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644962 Points: 8 # Comments: 0...
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...