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Astronomers searched five million stars and found seven red dwarfs with the strange infrared signature expected from Dyson spheres. Webb has now exposed two as chance alignments with distant dusty galaxies—one probably powered by a buried supermassive black hole—but five still lack a confirmed explanation.
46+ min ago (1632+ words) Webb separated two Project Hephaistos red dwarfs from dusty galaxies only about one arcsecond away, showing that WISE had blended their infrared light. Five original candidates still await equally decisive follow-up. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August…...
Why did taxonomists name a new rove beetle genus Luffy, after the One Piece pirate whose arms stretch?
23+ hour, 16+ min ago (403+ words) Two entomologists described the genus from four pinned specimens collected in Yunnan and Laos, and wrote the reason for the name into the paper. It is about proportions, not powers....
Deimos may owe both its enormous south-polar depression and strangely smooth surface to a single 300-metre asteroid impact — a blow whose debris spread around the entire moon and would mean Mars’s smaller satellite is essentially a porous rubble pile
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (1186+ words) A 320-metre oblique impact can reproduce Deimos's giant polar cavity while redistributing debris across the moon, implying an extremely weak and porous interior....
Thought of the day from philosopher Socrates: "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (27+ words) Most of us have spent some part of our lives convinced that a specific future thing would finally make everything alright. The bigger salary. The house with...
A single neutrino caught beneath the Antarctic ice sent astronomers searching across 11 billion light-years — and led them to a young galaxy nicknamed the Shadow Blaster, its light bent and magnified by another galaxy standing between it and Earth
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (1625+ words) One 750-TeV IceCube alert led astronomers to a rare, lensed dusty starburst at redshift 2.988. The galaxy is the best candidate in the field, not a confirmed neutrino source. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit…...
Astronomers have measured a Saturn-mass object apparently drifting through the Milky Way without a star—and microlensing surveys suggest that unseen free-floating worlds may outnumber the galaxy’s stars, perhaps by as much as 20 to one.
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (786+ words) A directly weighed Saturn-mass lens strengthens the free-floating planet case, but the estimate of roughly 20 such worlds per star remains a broad, model-dependent population inference....
The United States recorded 178 rocket launches in 2025. Trump’s new national space policy directs American ranges to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030—an average of nearly three spaceflight operations every day.
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (1090+ words) The White House wants American ranges capable of supporting more than 1,000 launches and reentries a year by 2030. The target is broader than the 178-launch baseline and will test ranges, airspace and regulation. By The Daily Orbit · Edited by Lachlan Brown…...
Elephants are among the few animals shown to recognise themselves in a mirror, a test most species fail entirely — and when researchers painted a white X on one elephant’s forehead, she reached for herself, not the reflection
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (424+ words) The moment an elephant recognizes herself in the mirror, the question shifts from whether she has self-awareness to what that consciousness means for how we treat her. Published August 23, 2026 · How we edit Happy was 34 years old the first time anyone…...
When scientists disrupted dopamine in hungry rats, the animals still showed pleasure when sweet food was placed in their mouths — they just lost the drive to work for it, suggesting dopamine governs wanting more than enjoyment
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (358+ words) The brain's reward chemical may not deliver pleasure at all—it's the engine that makes us crave, seek and strive. Published August 23, 2026 · How we edit Strip a rat of almost all its dopamine and it will still pull a happy…...
A microwave-oven-sized experiment inside NASA’s Perseverance rover made history in 2021 by extracting oxygen from Mars’s carbon-dioxide atmosphere—the first demonstration of producing a usable resource from the environment of another planet.
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1493+ words) MOXIE's first hour on Mars yielded only 5.4 grams of oxygen, but it crossed a larger threshold: another planet had become the source of a useful consumable. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 23, 2026 · How we edit…...