Researchers model a Carrington‑level solar storm and find the U.S. Northeast and Northern Plains could face widespread outages and billions in daily losses.
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The LUX‑ZEPLIN collaboration reports a lone, unexplained particle event in its underground xenon detector that matches predictions for a dark‑matter interaction, though it falls short of a confirmed discovery.
NASA lifted off the $4.3 b Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy, beginning a three‑month trek to Lagrange Point 2 to map billions of stars, probe dark energy and hunt thousands of new exoplanets.
NASA and an international team have confirmed a giant decagonal wave surrounding Saturn’s south pole, a feature that was absent during the Cassini mission.
Katalyst Space Technologies’ Link spacecraft approached NASA’s aging Swift Observatory within 15 km but ran out of fuel, ending a $30 million rescue attempt.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on Aug. 30 and is now undergoing commissioning, including a critical engine burn and coronagraph power‑on.
A team of researchers sent ultracold rubidium atoms into free fall and measured the tiny quantum phase shift predicted by Einstein’s equivalence principle, marking the first direct observation of the effect.
A new connectome of the male fruit fly brain and ventral nerve cord charts 166,000 neurons, allowing direct comparison with the female map and opening avenues for studying sex‑specific behavior.
ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo mission will separate its two orbiters in September, aiming to deliver detailed observations of Mercury’s surface and environment by 2027.
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot completed a six‑hour‑plus EVA, swapping a docking retroreflector and a high‑definition camera while handling a suit mobility issue.