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Science • Apr 23

Nebula sparkles in new Hubble snapshot photo of the day for April 23, 2026

A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a spectacular nebula in all its glory. (And yes, it does kind of look like a cosmic sea slug.).

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Science • Apr 23

AI just discovered new physics in the fourth state of matter

Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By combining a specially designed...

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Science • Apr 23

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Strange Fish-Scale Patterns on Mars

While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of looks like a giant reptile had...

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Science • Apr 23

Japan's audacious sample-return mission to the Mars moon Phobos has made it to the launch pad

The complex MMX mission aims to shed light on the origins of Mars' two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, bringing Phobos material back to Earth in 2031.

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Science • Apr 23

AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch

Astronomers are turning to GPUs to find needles in the galactic haystack.

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Science • Apr 23

Astronomers Create Entire Synthetic Universe "Indistinguishable" From Our Own

After ten years of building a simulation model, astronomers say they've created a synthetic, or virtual, universe that mirrors our own.

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Science • Apr 23

A Man Found a Cave Bigger Than a Boeing 747 in the Vietnam Jungle. It Took 17 Years to Find It Again

In 1990, a man stumbled upon an entrance to a massive cave, only to lose it again for 17 years. Little did he know, this cave would turn out to be unlike...

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Science • Apr 23

NASA Spots a Massive Pink Heart in Argentina from Space Nearly 10 Kilometers Across. Its Color Has a Much Darker Origin than Romance

Six miles wide. Visible from orbit. And colored by a microscopic panic response to salt and sunlight that kills almost everything it touches.

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Science • Apr 23

The Fish That Made Scientists Weep

On the morning of December 22nd, 1938, a young museum curator in East London, South Africa, found something on the deck of a fishing trawler that she didn't...

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Science • Apr 23

ALMA Reveals Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed in a Far Colder World Than Our Own

First-ever measurement of deuterated water in an interstellar object shows its home system formed under extreme conditions New observations from the Atacama...

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Science • Apr 23

NASA's Just-Completed Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Will Deliver What Hubble Did In 36 Years In Less Than A Year

"Its surveying capabilities are over 1000 times faster than Hubble's and can chart 200 times more sky in a single image. It would take Hubble 2000 years to...

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Science • Apr 23

Mysterious Golden Orb at The Bottom of The Ocean Finally Identified

In 2023, in water so deep that sunlight never reaches it, scientists operating a remote vehicle found a mystery at the bottom of the ocean.

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Science • Apr 23

New place to apply for NASA jobs

By Linda Cicoira. Engineers and technologists in the air and space fields are being recruited through a new website launched late last week by NASA and the...

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Science • Apr 23

NASA Shares Unseen Artemis II Photos to Mark Earth Day

To mark Earth Day (April 22), NASA has released a series of previously unseen photos of the planet taken by the Artemis II astronauts during their historic...

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Science • Apr 23

Scientists trace latest interstellar comet’s home to a cold, isolated corner of the Milky Way

A new study suggests that the comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that had yet...

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Science • Apr 23

Comet 3I/ATLAS was born in a region of the Galaxy vastly different from our Solar System, billions of years ago

Comet 3I/ATLAS' contains a large amount of heavier water, revealing it formed somewhere colder and with lower levels of radiation.

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Science • Apr 23

Lyrid meteor shower peaks over Michigan: When and how to watch through April 25

The Lyrid meteor shower will be visible for the next couple of nights in Southeast Michigan.

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Science • Apr 23

Greece’s Methana Volcano Awakens After 100,000 Years

New research has challenged the long-held assumption that the Methana volcano in Greece, located about 30 miles from Athens, is extinct.

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Science • Apr 23

Plato aces space-like tests

The European Space Agency Plato mission has successfully completed a series of tough tests under space‑like conditions. With this accomplishment, the...

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Science • Apr 23

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule

Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences.

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