Space
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- Student-led missions deploy free-flying light sails from CubeSats in low Earth orbit
- Solar Orbiter catches the sun's missing high-speed vibrations
- Researchers measure the environment where the first supermassive black holes formed
- Virtual biotech company puts thousands of AI scientist agents to work on drug discovery
- Japanese supercomputer simulations may explain Webb's Little Red Dots
- US acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space
- Webb reveals dynamic panorama of star formation, including smallest known brown dwarfs
- Fictional framing blends reality with fantasy to help investors see possibilities—and buy into them
- Series of reactions reveals how complex carbon chemistry can begin in frigid space
- Cataract surgery will be needed in space, surgeon predicts
- Rubin observatory peers deep into the famous COSMOS field
- eROSITA's second data release catalog delivering most comprehensive high-energy census of the cosmos to date
- Asteroid Ryugu's dust reveals nitrogen's slow concentration into complex molecules
- Natural clay reveals a new way to control ion transport at the angstrom scale
- JWST finds extreme star-forming galaxies masquerading as faint quasars
- Super-resolution imaging reveals that cohesin prevents local mixing of compact, active genome domains
- Photo: NASA's Hubble spies superbubble scene
- NASA rocket takes first multi-point look inside radio-disrupting clouds
- NASA delays Crew-13 launch after leak found on SpaceX Dragon
- Interstellar travel V: Warp drives, wormholes, and halo drives
- JWST reveals likely Type II supernova from when universe was only 2 billion years old
- Rocky planets may have formed just 100 million years after the Big Bang
- NASA's newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe
- SpaceX recovers Starship from the Indian Ocean a month after launch and is shipping it back to Texas
- ASTRID traces 13.5 billion years of black hole and galaxy evolution
- NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is ready to hunt thousands of alien worlds
- JWST reveals a race against time for forming planets
- 'Rainbow-on-a-chip' could help unlock 6G networks and precision timing for quantum technologies
- Satellite constellations could create spiraling space debris
- Student News Today — August 7, 2026
- Stabilizing a simple amino acid opens a path to biodegradable sensors
- Gravity and quantum information linked through a derivation of Einstein's equations
- NASA spots a giant patch of Moon-like rock on Earth
- Hubble Space Telescope may have found a planet born after its star died
- A 9-billion-year-old signal could help explain dark energy
- NASA astronauts splash down after 100 million miles in space
- NASA’s Webb finds signs of Mars-sized worlds smashing together
- Webb finds a surprising atmosphere on a scorching lava world
- ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter