Hardy bacteria could survive the trip from one planet to another, hidden among the debris from an asteroid impact, a new study suggests, providing possible evidence for a theory that the seeds of life ...
Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a frozen desert. NASA’s twin-spacecraft ESCAPADE mission aims to watch this process in action by measuring how the solar wind interacts with Mars’ fragile magnetic environment. The findings could reveal how Mars lost its habitability—and help prepare humans for future missions there.
The star astrophysicist sat down with Newsweek to discuss Mars missions and what truly drives human discovery.
Mars used to have a warmer and wetter climate, which changed after billions of years because the Sun's solar wind removed most of its atmosphere, which transformed the planet into its current dry...
On March 14, 2016, the European Space Agency's ExoMars spacecraft launched on a mission to search for life on Mars. [‘On This ...
John Casani spent more than half a century turning speculative ideas about distant worlds into working spacecraft that could survive the trip. His quiet influence at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
Hello all! This is my 1st post here! I promised to myself that in 2026, I'd get out of my shell virtually, so here I am :-)I attended GDC for the first time this year, always wanted to go, but never could. So I went this year, as an independent person. I just got home after a long week (San Francisco is awesome!), I wanted to share some of my own thoughts on where the gaming industry is heading and where it’s not doing so hot.The Good/AwesomeGoogle DeepMind’s Genie 3: The talk was pack
Integrated an evolutionary database to Karpathy's [autoresearch](https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch) project that replaces the simple tsv file based logging in the original project.Evolutionary algorithms have shown to be a powerful tool for autonomously discovering optimal solutions to problems with large search spaces. Famously, Google DeepMind's [AlphaEvolve](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131) system uses evolutionary algorithms to discov
I am working on the D'Agapeyeff cipher, an unsolved cryptogram from 1939. Two findings that I haven't seen published before:1. All 5 anomalous symbol values in the cipher cluster in the last column of a 14x14 grid. This turns out to be driven by a factor-of-2-and-7 positional pattern in the linear text.2. Simulated annealing with Esperanto quadgrams (23M char Leipzig corpus) on a 2x98 columnar transposition consistently outscores English by 200+ points and recovers the same Esperanto v
Zap Code generates working HTML/CSS/JS from plain English descriptions, designed for kids ages 8-16.The core loop: kid types "make a space shooter game", AI generates the code, live preview renders it immediately. Three interaction modes - visual-only tweaks, read-only code view with annotations, and full code editing with AI autocomplete.Technical details: Next.js frontend, Node.js backend, Monaco editor simplified for younger users, sandboxed iframe for preview execution (n
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission not only altered an asteroid’s orbit but, for the first time, a new study shows we also successfully changed the asteroids' path around the sun.
Citizen scientists reviewing NASA data discovered unusually high Solar flare rates, helping researchers better understand the ...
According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.
The Senate Commerce Committee voted March 12 to send the nomination of Matt Anderson as NASA deputy administrator to the full Senate.
The spacecraft slowed down the system's 76,000 mph orbital speed... by two inches per hour. We're going to have to punch a lot harder if we want to save Earth.
Dragonfly will explore the giant Saturn moon Titan by air, helping scientists learn about the proto-ingredients of life on ...
NASA on February 19, 2026, formally classified Boeing’s 2024 Crewed Flight Test of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as a Type ...
According to NASA's watchdog, the agency "does not have the capability to rescue the stranded crew" if they were to be ...
Astronomers analyzing the gravitational-wave event known as GW200105 report evidence that a black hole and neutron star ...
On March 14, 2016, the European Space Agency's ExoMars spacecraft launched on a mission to search for life on Mars. [‘On This ...