Jupiter reaches opposition overnight on Jan. 10, when it appears its brightest in 2026 opposite the sun in Earth's sky....
Fewer outsiders, less feedback, and an uncertain fate for a new science board report...
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24617 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542982 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...
A magical encounter in northern Finland blends ancient folklore, swirling auroras and an unexpectedly curious fox....
Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas....
Located south of Bendâs outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of astronomical wonders...
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming coronal mass ejection could disrupt Earth's magnetic field and trigger geomagnetic storm conditions....
An online video has gone viral showing 93-year-old Dr. Marshall Lindheimer, who has dementia, hearing about his groundbreaking research to treat and diagnose the pregnancy condition of preeclampsia....
Earth is about to see three total solar eclipses in just under two years, with each successive path of totality moving west to east across the globe. Here's everything you need to know to plan an exqu...
NASA said on Thursday it will return a crew from the International Space Station to Earth within days after an astronaut experienced a medical issue, marking the orbital labâs first evacuation for hea...
Nature, Published online: 23 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10044-8 Author Correction: Rolling back human pluripotent stem cells to an eight-cell embryo-like stage...
Chinese researchers have proposed a simple yet powerful theory to explain one of physicsâ oldest puzzles: why time only moves forward and why travelling to the past remains impossible. Physicist Cai Q...
Bad news for those hoping interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft as technosignature search turns up empty....
Beneath the Mediterranean, physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for cosmic whispersâand this year, it heard the most energeti...
As a space scientist, I predict that the company will soon have to reckon with a growing problem: space debris....
While space is often referred to as a vacuum, it isn't completely empty....
DeepSeekâs latest technical paper, co-authored by the firmâs founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng, has been cited as a potential game changer in developing artificial intelligence models, as it could transla...
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see... https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size - https://news.ycombinator...
Hi HN, I've been exploring various applications of formal methods to ML/interpretability and I've been hoping to get more eyes on the approach. I have been working on a small interpretability project ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off carrying Starlink satellites into orbit. Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images SpaceX is moving over 4,000 Starlink satellites to a lower orbit. An...