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 ...
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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
Ask HN: Cursor alternative, EU-based or privacy-focused?
I like Cursor's autocomplete and have experimented Mistral's Vibe (their Claude competitor, one could say).I'm not into "vibe coding" in the sense that I don't like asking an LLM to build huge swaths of things, but I sometimes use Cursor's agent feature to add similar features (imagine I already have a bunch of settings for somethings, and I ask it to add a new setting for something else. With the right pointers this is helpful and does save me time — I already
NASA ships Artemis III rocket core to Kennedy Space Center
NASA has transported the core stage of its Space Launch System rocket for Artemis III from the Michoud Assembly Facility to ...
NASA nuclear engineer found dead in burned Tesla after vanishing from his Alabama home last year
NASA nuclear propulsion engineer Joshua LeBlanc died in a mysterious fiery Tesla crash in Alabama, becoming the 12th ...
Students to launch high-powered rockets at NASA event
Student rocket teams from across the country will gather near Huntsville this weekend to take part in NASA's 2026 Student ...
To Keep the Voyager 1 Spacecraft on Its Interstellar Journey, NASA Turned Off One of Its Few Remaining Instruments
The probe launched almost 50 years ago and is the farthest human-made object from Earth. Shutting down one of its scientific ...
NASA unveils Roman telescope to map universe, find 10,000s of exoplanets
NASA unveiled a new telescope on Tuesday to scan vast swaths of the universe for planets outside our solar system and probe ...
Sinister kidnap theory emerges in case of NASA scientist who burned to death in Tesla
Joshua LeBlanc, a nuclear scientist at NASA, died last year in Alabama after his car caught on fire. A sinister new kidnapping theory has now emerged that might explain what happened to him
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marks 36 years in orbit with stunning brand new image of ‘Cosmic Sea Slug’: PHOTOS
NASA is celebrating the 36th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope in Earth's orbit, sharing a new image of the Trifid Nebula, nicknamed the “Cosmic Sea Slug,” first revealed in 1997. The school-bus-sized telescope has since made nearly 1.7 million observations, targeting about 55,000 astronomical objects. Its discoveries have resulted in over 22,000 scientific papers and more than 1.3 million citations, making it one of the most influential scientific instruments ever built. Hubble was launched on April 24, 1990.