Who speaks for Mars? Scientists call for ethical debate before terraforming begins

Transforming Mars into a more Earth-like world could irreversibly destroy scientific evidence about the planet’s history and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. In an opinion article published in Eos, a team of Dutch, French and U.S. planetary scientists and ethicists warns that humanity risks destroying Mars’ scientific record before it has been fully explored.

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BWC: Man sprays incendiary device at officers, burns K-9 before fatal OIS

Three San Diego Police officers and K-9 Ryder were burned in the incident after a man repeatedly used an aerosol can and a torch lighter to spray fire inside an adult store

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Cosmic ‘hamburger’ offers rare edge-on view of where giant planets may take shape

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) were surprised to discover the earliest phases of giant planet formation between the dense layers of gas and dust in the “Gomez’s Hamburger” system, referred to as GoHam.

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Webb reveals metal-rich gas around Milky Way’s central black hole

The gas orbiting Sagittarius A (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is rich in metals, researchers at McGill University’s Trottier Space Institute have found. The metal enrichment probably resulted from stars that exploded and released material into the black hole’s surroundings over time, they said.

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Japan to launch world-first mission to moon of Mars

Japanese scientists will launch a spacecraft on Tuesday that aims to be the first to retrieve samples from one of Mars’ moons, potentially helping unlock the origins of the solar system and life on Earth.

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Auroral structure could be caused by bouncing electrons

The aurora is among nature’s most visually striking phenomena. It occurs when charged particles from the sun are funneled by Earth’s magnetic field into the upper atmosphere, where they collide with atoms and molecules and produce distinctly colored curtainlike patterns of light.

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Euclid discovers its first new comet 810 million miles from Earth

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered its first previously unknown comet in images taken between Sept. 16 and 24, 2026.

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Normally forbidden emissions from graphene could expose quantum fluctuations in incoming light

Voltage fluctuations, light fluctuations, temperature fluctuations—any fluctuations are troublesome and thus undesirable. They don’t just cause discomfort; in engineering and medical applications, they affect the accuracy of measurements or introduce errors in controls. Even at the minute level of quantum phenomena, fluctuations are considered undesirable.

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Scientists redetermine a key strontium frequency with 50 times better precision for quantum technologies

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has remeasured a key transition frequency of the strontium (Sr) atom for the first time in 88 years, since 1938, using a photonic grating chip. It has established a new absolute frequency value with a measurement uncertainty reduced by more than 50 times. By providing an […]

BWC: Calif. officer fires through cruiser windshield after suspect shoots rifle at police during pursuit

Long Beach Police officers pursued the man for 20 minutes, during which time he fled at nearly 100 mph, pointed a rifle at officers and fired shots

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X-rays reveal surprisingly long-lived spin waves in copper oxide

Today’s computer technology, based on silicon chips, is slowly reaching its physical limits. Components cannot be miniaturized indefinitely, and clock speeds cannot be increased indefinitely. At the same time, huge AI data centers are being built in many places, and these consume an immense amount of electricity. This is why scientists around the world are […]

3 N.C. officers resign, 3 remain under investigation after probe finds ‘several years’ of racist text messages

The six Charlotte-Mecklenberg Police officers were allegedly involved in a group text that using racial slurs and competing over who could pull over the most Black drivers

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Ohio officer killed in crash while responding to call

Clay Township Police Sergeant Jacob Roesler, 26, was responding to a crash with emergency lights activated when another vehicle crashed into his cruiser

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Enigmatic Mercury will remain a puzzle until someone sends a lander

Mercury remains one of our solar system’s most elusive and difficult planets to study. It’s easier to send probes to the icy moons of Saturn or Jupiter, or even to Pluto, than to land on our innermost planet, Mercury.

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Retired pilot helps historical society buy Neil Armstrong’s boyhood home for tours

Ken Schreiber was 9 when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon in 1969—a moment he would never forget. Like Armstrong, he became a military fighter pilot.

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