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  • Stanford’s New AI Could Revolutionize Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation

    Stanford’s New AI Could Revolutionize Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation
    2026/10/02
    Stanford researchers have developed an AI “world model” designed to help spacecraft navigate and dock autonomously. Instead of following only fixed instructions, the system learns from experience and simulates possible futures.

    The approach could offer a new path toward more adaptable spacecraft and robots operating far from human control.

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    21 分
  • How Supermassive Black Holes Control the Fate of Entire Galaxies

    How Supermassive Black Holes Control the Fate of Entire Galaxies
    2026/10/02
    Supermassive black holes may control the growth of entire galaxies. New research shows that narrow plasma jets can travel hundreds of thousands of light-years, reaching the gas surrounding galaxies and creating directional regions of glowing ionized hydrogen.

    By heating and disrupting this cold gas, black holes can suppress star formation and regulate how galaxies evolve. A tiny region at the center of a galaxy may ultimately shape its entire cosmic environment.

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    34 分
  • James Webb Detects Water, Methane and Ammonia on a Surprisingly Cold Exoplanet

    James Webb Detects Water, Methane and Ammonia on a Surprisingly Cold Exoplanet
    2026/10/01
    The James Webb Space Telescope detected water, methane, and ammonia in the atmosphere of HATS-6 b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a surprisingly small star. Its enormous size and unexpectedly cold temperature could challenge current theories of how giant planets form.

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    18 分
  • Mars Has a Purple South Pole — Here’s Why

    Mars Has a Purple South Pole — Here’s Why
    2026/10/01
    Mars’ south pole is revealing surprising purple, pink, and red landscapes shaped by volcanic minerals, dust, and seasonal carbon dioxide ice. Giant cliffs like Thyles Rupes also reveal how Mars’ cooling crust evolved without Earth-like plate tectonics.

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    20 分
  • Could This Hot Super-Earth Reveal Earth’s Molten Past?

    Could This Hot Super-Earth Reveal Earth’s Molten Past?
    2026/09/30
    James Webb has found a rocky super-Earth that appears to retain an atmosphere despite orbiting extremely close to its star. Its unexpectedly cool dayside may reveal how gases survive on scorching lava worlds—and could offer clues about Earth’s own molten past.

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    20 分
  • Did the Universe Twist Ancient Light? Scientists Test a Strange Cosmic Signal

    Did the Universe Twist Ancient Light? Scientists Test a Strange Cosmic Signal
    2026/09/30
    Did the universe twist its oldest light as it traveled across billions of years? Scientists have developed a new calibration method to test cosmic birefringence and separate genuine cosmic signals from telescope errors.

    Using Planck data, the technique strengthens the case for a mysterious rotation that could point to new physics or dark matter.

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    34 分
  • JWST Finds Heavy Elements in the Universe’s Earliest Galaxies

    JWST Finds Heavy Elements in the Universe’s Earliest Galaxies
    2026/09/29
    The James Webb Space Telescope has found evidence that early galaxies were already producing and spreading heavy elements just 500 million years after the Big Bang.

    Carbon and oxygen detected in distant galaxies suggest the young universe became chemically enriched much faster than expected, challenging the idea of a pristine early cosmos. The discovery also narrows the window for finding the universe’s first stars and reveals how rapidly the earliest galaxies evolved.

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    36 分
  • Scientists Develop a New Way to Search for Dark Matter

    Scientists Develop a New Way to Search for Dark Matter
    2026/09/29
    Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by simulating its behavior as a wave.

    Their 3D models of “fuzzy” dark matter reproduced the gravitational lensing of a distant quasar more accurately than previous approaches, revealing interference patterns that could help distinguish wave-like dark matter from conventional models. The work offers a new way to probe what may make up most of the universe’s matter.

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    39 分