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China reveals crew for Shenzhou 21 mission to Tiangong Space Station, including nation's youngest astronaut (video)

October 31, 2025
China has named the three astronauts set to fly to the Tiangong space station at a pre-launch press conference one day ahead of the Oct. 31 flight of the Shenzhou 21 mission. Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang will be aboard the Shenzhou 21 spacecraft, currently scheduled to launch on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 11:44 a.m. EDT…
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Enormous black hole unexpectedly found in tiny galaxy

October 30, 2025
An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way’s tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how small galaxies hold themselves together. Segue 1 is an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy located about 75,000 light-years from Earth, making it a very close neighbor of the Milky Way. Advanced modeling technologies revealed that the galaxy appears to…
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How AI and sand dunes on Mars can reveal the planet's history, one grain at a time

October 29, 2025
An innovative technique for measuring the force acting on individual grains of sand could help scientists uncover how winds have shaped the surface of Mars. The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate the force acting on each grain of sand. By combining laboratory experiments, computer simulations and artificial…
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Black Holes and Their Creation Through Mergers

October 29, 2025
Scientists have “heard” the symphony of two newborn black holes — each created when its respective parent black holes crashed together and merged. One of those collision events, in fact, was the first of its kind. The detection of the baby black holes and…
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Awakening an interstellar wanderer: Surprising nickel detection in Comet 3I/ATLAS

October 28, 2025
Rohan Rahatgaonkar is a Ph.D. student at the Instituto de Astrofísica-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Darryl Z. Seligman is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. In a surprising discovery, our team has detected glowing nickel vapor in the gas surrounding the incoming interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at an extraordinary distance from the sun, where…
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