Researchers: Fungus might survive trip to Mars
NASA may have met its match in a microscopic stowaway that shrugs off conditions meant to simulate Mars. Researchers found a ...
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NASA cleanroom fungus could survive a trip to Mars, raising contamination concerns
A fungus pulled from NASA cleanrooms kept surviving tests that were meant to mimic nearly every stage of a trip to Mars. That ...
Ask Dr. Universe: What is a supernova?
I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...
The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission has failed, but to keep it alive a little longer.
Solving the Black Hole Paradox May Require Seven Dimensions
For a half-century, scientists have investigated ways to solve the black hole information paradox—the idea that when black ...
This ancient black hole is so massive it may be breaking its own galaxy
A distant quasar known as ULAS J1120+0641 hosts a black hole so massive that it may be disrupting the balance of its own ...
'Ultramassive' black hole the size of 36 billion suns found in distant galaxy
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You've heard of a supermassive black hole. Now, what about an "ultramassive" black hole? That descriptor is the only word ...
Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe
For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit the usual script. LIGO and Virgo ...
Could an Earthly Fungus Contaminate Mars? NASA May Have Found One Hardy Enough.
Researchers identified a species that can survive radiation, extreme heat and simulated Martian soil, posing a new challenge ...
How resilient fungus might survive Mars and space
Conidia, a type of asexual reproductive spore, grown from those fungi survived after exposure to simulations of the harsh conditions of Mars and space travel. The findings suggest decontamination ...
Light-powered 'metajets' could transform deep space travel
Engineers at Texas A&M University have developed micron-scale 'metajets' that can be lifted and steered in three dimensions ...
Astronomers measure the mind-blowing power and speed of black hole jets for the first time
For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole. The jet ...
Two giant black holes may collide within 100 years as a cosmic countdown begins
Astronomers discover two giant black holes set to collide in 100 years and detect key signals from Markarian 501.
An asteroid may hold the key to cutting Mars travel times far more than anyone expected
Radio waves from black holes reveal unusual orbital patterns and hidden jet activity, offering new insights into cosmic behavior ...
NASA Sets 2028 Launch For First Nuclear Mission To Mars Days Before Return To The Moon
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Keysight and Sateliot Win European Space Agency and GSMA Foundry Challenge for 6G Innovation
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), together with Sateliot, has been named a winner of the fifth annual European Space Agency (ESA) and GSMA Foundry Innovation Challenge for its joint project, ...
Show HN: MirrorNeuron – an open-source runtime for reliable on-device AI agents
AI inference is rapidly moving out of the data center and onto local machines. With hardware like the upcoming Mac Studio M5 Ultra, it’s already possible to run top open models locally at performance levels approaching systems like ChatGPT. At the same time, companies like SK Hynix and Micron Technology are pushing memory bandwidth forward, making edge inference increasingly practical. But the software layer hasn’t caught up yet. We have great building blocks (e.g., OpenClaw), but they don’t yet
Ask HN: Has anyone else found Google unusable lately?
For the first time in twenty years, I find myself regularly using an alternate search engine in search of the 'simple and obvious' results I could once get from Google.I don't love that that search engine is Yandex, for various reasons; but I can no longer wrangle the results I need by any tricks or Google-Fu that still work, from Google, and Yandex keeps it simple.If I could date when Google results went from annoying to 'repellent', I would say maybe 6-8 weeks ago.
Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day
I've been reading up on crawler architecture. The two most useful sources I've found are the blog post "Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025" and the Mercator paper ("Mercator: A Scalable, Extensible Web Crawler").Both of these, and most other material I've come across, focus on crawling the broad open web rather than a targeted set of domains. For product prices it's the latter. Mercator calls out DNS resolution as a major bottlenec
Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?
I am working on a new open-source project. (My project is in AI infrastructure. It already gets SOTA results on several well-known benchmarks.) The core value is not just the code, but a fairly specific algorithmic approach that came out of many failed attempts, experiments, and design iterations.The dilemma I am facing is this:If I open-source early, I get feedback, trust, users, and maybe contributors. But I also expose the core design and algorithm. With LLMs, turning a repo into a different