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  • Starship’s Next Giant Leap: SpaceX Moves Closer to Orbital Flight

    Starship’s Next Giant Leap: SpaceX Moves Closer to Orbital Flight
    2026/09/28
    SpaceX’s Starship enters another critical phase as its 14th flight attempts to push the massive spacecraft closer to true orbital operations.

    The mission combines next-generation Starlink satellites with crucial tests of speed, gravity, reusability, and atmospheric return. After previous setbacks, this flight could reveal how close Starship really is to becoming the foundation for future missions to the Moon and Mars.

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    11 分
  • Listening to the Stars: The First Radio Signal From an Exoplanet

    Listening to the Stars: The First Radio Signal From an Exoplanet
    2026/09/28
    Tune in to explore a milestone in astronomy: for the first time, scientists have detected direct radio signals from an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b.

    Learn how researchers used distant quasars as cosmic GPS to measure the massive planet's intense magnetic field and hear what this breakthrough means for the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system.

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    20 分
  • Mars Had Multiple Water Worlds, NASA Rover Reveals

    Mars Had Multiple Water Worlds, NASA Rover Reveals
    2026/09/28
    NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered evidence that water transformed Mars in at least three distinct episodes. In Jezero Crater’s Margin Unit, the rover found igneous rocks containing carbonates and silica—clues to ancient groundwater, a long-vanished lake, and later heated fluids underground.

    The discovery reveals a far more complex watery history for Mars and raises new questions about whether its ancient environments could have supported microbial life.

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    37 分
  • Could Tiny Solar Sails Become the Future of Space Travel?

    Could Tiny Solar Sails Become the Future of Space Travel?
    2026/09/27
    Cornell students have successfully tested tiny solar sails in orbit using miniature ChipSats and 3D-printed spacecraft. Their Alpha CubeSat and Sailing to the Stars missions demonstrated how sunlight can propel ultra-light spacecraft, while testing low-cost navigation and deployment technologies.

    Could these tiny sails become a stepping stone toward future missions across the solar system—and eventually interstellar space?

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    23 分
  • Could Venus Have Swallowed Its Own Moon?

    Could Venus Have Swallowed Its Own Moon?
    2026/09/27
    A new study suggests Venus may once have had a moon that eventually spiraled inward and crashed into the planet.

    Simulations show that Venus’s slow rotation could make moons unstable, offering a possible explanation for its unusual evolution and raising questions about moons around other slowly rotating planets.

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    31 分
  • Scientists Find Thousands of Organic Molecules Inside Ancient Meteorites

    Scientists Find Thousands of Organic Molecules Inside Ancient Meteorites
    2026/09/24
    Researchers have uncovered tens of thousands of organic compounds inside the Murchison and Aguas Zarcas meteorites using the world’s highest-resolution mass spectrometer. Atomic force microscopy also revealed rare images of individual extraterrestrial molecules in remarkable detail.

    The findings suggest that the chemical ingredients needed for life were widespread across the early solar system—and that the primordial space environment was far more chemically diverse than scientists expected.

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    42 分
  • Scientists Discover a Universal Rule for Black Hole Jets

    Scientists Discover a Universal Rule for Black Hole Jets
    2026/09/24
    New research suggests that black holes of vastly different sizes follow the same rule when launching powerful radio jets.

    By studying stars torn apart by black holes, scientists found that jets appear when the feeding rate falls below a critical threshold. The discovery reveals a surprising universal pattern in how matter falls into black holes and could help astronomers predict when these powerful jets will appear.

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    47 分
  • The Youngest Exoplanet Ever Found Is Still Being Born

    The Youngest Exoplanet Ever Found Is Still Being Born
    2026/09/23
    Elias 2-24 b has officially become the youngest known exoplanet, at less than a million years old. Located about 450 light-years away, this Jupiter-sized world is still forming and appears to be gathering material from its surroundings.

    Its surprisingly early formation and distant orbit challenge current theories about how giant planets are born. Future observations could reveal even more about these elusive cosmic newborns.

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    38 分