Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites from the California coast on Oct. 23, Space.com reported. The flight carried the Starlink Group 15-15 satellites, 27 in all, and it came as the company flies its workhorse Falcon

NASA has laid out how Artemis III will work: a crewed test flight in Earth orbit, not a trip to the moon, that will try out hardware from both companies building lunar landers. The agency presented the plan on Oct. 23 at a press conference

A Microsoft AI system correctly diagnosed 83% of complex medical cases in a simulated test, compared with 36% for generalist physicians who could consult reference materials, according to a study published in the journal Science. The cases

An ancient virus may have left chimpanzees with a quieter version of a gene that helps human brain cells mature. According to ScienceAlert, a new study in Science Advances reports that a retrovirus called PTERV1 inserted DNA into the chimpa

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a distant galaxy that is magnified and stretched into a pair of arcs by the gravity of a closer galaxy, the agency announced. The image is one of many gravitational lens observations Hubble is coll

A team of U.S. researchers has shown on a real quantum processor that repeated checking and resetting of qubits can pull a system out of chaos and into order. The work, published in Nature Physics, is described by ScienceAlert as a partial

Scientists at Kobe University say fresh magma is slowly accumulating beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, about 7,300 years after the volcano produced the largest known eruption of the Holocene, according to ScienceDaily. The study appears in Com

The largest collection of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled offers fresh evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force speeding up the expansion of the Universe, may not be constant, according to ScienceDaily. The finding is a hi

Record heat across Europe this summer contributed to the deaths of more than 50,000 people, and researchers say about two-thirds of those deaths trace back to human-caused climate change, according to NPR's report on a new study. The resear

A personalized mRNA vaccine given together with an immunotherapy drug lowered the risk of melanoma coming back or causing death by 42% over two years, according to results from a large clinical trial that Moderna and Merck announced Thursda

A new light sensor costing about $10 could one day bring laboratory-grade measurements to wearable devices, including a way to follow blood sugar without piercing the skin, according to ScienceDaily, which summarized work from the Universit

Forty years after the Chornobyl disaster, researchers have found that some of the tiny radioactive particles left in the soil are more chemically stable than expected, according to ScienceDaily. The fuel inside six particles studied with po