2025-10-14

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Spewing Water Like a Cosmic Fire Hydrant

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a very different structure than comets in the solar system. [...]

2025-10-14

SpaceX is preparing the next-gen Starship after a successful flight test

SpaceX's second-generation Starship vehicle has just made a graceful exit. The company achieved every major objective it set for the super-heavy lift vehicle's 11th flight test, the second-g [...]

2025-10-14

Catch These Rare Comets Zooming Past Earth This October

The Lemmon comet won't return for another 1,300 years. [...]

2025-10-13

Starship’s elementary era ends today with mega-rocket’s 11th test flight

"The final phase of Starship’s trajectory on Flight 11 includes a dynamic banking maneuver." [...]

2025-10-13

How to Make STEM Funny—and Go Viral Doing It

If you stayed awake in science class as a kid, the payoff comes when you get a good laugh out of Freya McGhee’s jokes. [...]

2025-10-13

This new AI technique creates ‘digital twin’ consumers, and it could kill the traditional survey industry

A new research paper quietly published last week outlines a breakthrough method that allows large language models (LLMs) to simulate human consumer behavior with startling accuracy, a development that [...]

2025-10-13

More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a prime candidate for further research. [...]

2025-10-12

The movie 'Her' imagined perfect AI companions. We built manipulative ones instead

Scarlett Johansson's Samantha feels less like science fiction than fantasy because no company would build her that way. The business model won't allow it [...]

2025-10-12

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks. [...]