From astronauts looping around the moon to spacecraft reaching Mercury and asteroids near Earth, 2026 is shaping up to be a landmark year for space exploration....
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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24617 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542982 Points: 5 # Comments: 0...
Astronomers have detected a "free floating" rogue planet the size of Saturn drifting through the Milky Way some 10,000 light-years from Earth....
New clinical trial aims to use whole, light-inactivated tumor cells for immunotherapy...
US drug company is seeking to acquire the maker of a new treatment for pancreatic cancer...
New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown....
The AI pioneer on stepping down from Meta, the limits of large language models — and the launch of his new start-up...
2026 is shaping up to be a huge year for games, with major sequels, long-awaited releases, and big new projects already lined up....
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Emergency services have been responding overnight after a powerful blast tore through a crowded bar in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana as New Year celebrations were underway....
NASA will return 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....
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...
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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 lab’s first evacuation for hea...
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 whispers—and 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....
Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in its 2026 orbit on Jan. 3....
Elon Musk's Neuralink startup develops brain-chip implants. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is planning to ramp up production of his Neuralink brain chips in 2026. Neuralink develops...