Scientists found Homo erectus 200,000 years earlier than expected
New fossils from South Africa are reshaping the story of early human evolution. Researchers have described 18 hominin fossils from Drimolen Cave, including an a…
Crew-12 Hatch Close with Sophie Adenot | εpsilon mission (Official broadcast)
Joint NPS-MCU Hackathon Advances AI Prototypes for Military Education
MONTEREY, Calif. – The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and Marine Corps University (MCU) concluded the Joint MCU-NPS AI Learning Initiatives Hackathon Sept. 18 …
After 235 days in space, Sophie is heading home 🌍
Would you trust AI to calculate your true 'biological age'?
Scientists have recently harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to build "aging clocks" that aim to estimate a person's true biological age.…
SpaceX pode tornar-se a próxima grande operadora de telecomunicações
A SpaceX poderá tornar-se muito em breve uma das grandes operadoras de telecomunicações dos EUA e competir diretamente com empresas conhecidas deste ramo - como…
Webb Measures Distance to Farthest Fast Radio Burst, Suggesting Origin
First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts are enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant universe. Their origin remains uncertain,…
Two years ago today, Hera began its journey 🎉
The central Pacific Ocean just broke a temperature record. Experts say it might signal a new kind of El Niño.
The sea surface temperature in a key El Niño region has exceeded 86 degrees F for the first time on record, hinting that the strength and location of some El Ni…
Astronaut Pikachu gets a private tour of the ISS
NASA, Energy Department Advance New Era of Nuclear-Powered Exploration
Editor’s note: This release was updated Oct. 8, 2026 with the formal name of the summit. As the Golden Age of deep-space exploration begins, NASA and the U.S. D…
Branding influencia citações de marcas em IAs
A presença de marcas em respostas geradas por inteligência artificial passou a integrar o debate sobre estratégias de branding e visibilidade digital. Com a exp…
FDA-approved epilepsy drug may help reverse osteoarthritis damage
Researchers at Yale have identified a promising new approach to osteoarthritis that could do more than simply ease pain. The epilepsy drug lacosamide appears to…
A bittersweet moment for Sophie 🧑🚀
OpenAI claims we've entered the AGI era — has GPT-6 Astra really demonstrated general intelligence?
OpenAI says its newly launched GPT-6 Astra model brings humanity to the threshold of AGI, but external evaluators argue that inflated lab metrics and opaque tes…
“Revolução dos Foguetes” democratiza acesso ao espaço sideral
Semana Mundial do Espaço foca em tecnologias que estão ampliando possibilidades de exploração da órbita terrestre; indústria espacial vai movimentar trilhões de…
NASA Advances LISA Mission Contributions With New Test Telescope
NASA has taken the next step in the process of developing a new all-glass telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, a space observato…
Europe and Japan's journey to Mercury 🚀
Einstein Probe reveals a hidden phase of neutron star collisions
Einstein Probe revealed nearly 10 minutes of soft X-ray activity following a short gamma-ray burst, exposing a phase of neutron star mergers that previous missi…
Beyond the airlock: Sophie Adenot's three spacewalks
APOD: 2026 October 8 – The Saturn System Smörgåsbord
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 8 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the…
Just 7 days of strength training started shrinking fat cells in mice
Just seven strength-training sessions helped obese mice shrink visceral fat cells and reactivate molecular pathways involved in burning stored fat, despite no c…
This “golden tree” coral was too strange for any known family
A brilliant yellow coral discovered off Costa Rica proved so unusual that scientists had to create an entirely new family to classify it. The meter-tall colonie…













