Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

After a search that began in the 1980s, physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider Beauty experiment, known as LHCb, say they have found evidence of an extremely rare particle decay. ScienceAlert reported that the LHCb Collaboration pr

Two astronauts have finished a power upgrade to the International Space Station that began in 2021. On Nov. 5, NASA's Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency installed and unrolled the eighth and last ISS Roll-Out Solar Ar

Chemical traces in preserved human hair from a 2,800-year-old royal tomb in Siberia are the earliest securely dated direct evidence of people using cannabis for its intoxicating effects, according to a study published Thursday, Nov. 5, in t

A Seattle company says a generator on the seafloor, driven by heat from an underwater volcano off Oregon, briefly made more electricity than it consumed. The surplus lasted 8.7 seconds, according to ScienceAlert, which reported on the compa

NASA's Swift space telescope fell out of orbit and reentered Earth's atmosphere on Nov. 4, ending a mission that began in 2004. According to satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell, who cited U.S. Space Force data, the observatory came down at

Hundreds of unopened letters, many of them apparently from health trusts, government departments and banks, were found dumped near Derry in Northern Ireland, and some recipients may have missed important correspondence. Royal Mail has launc

OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Cyber, a restricted-access AI model that the company says found 81 previously unknown high-severity vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser and produced working exploits for 948 Linux kernel vulnerabilities. Accor

A new geological study has ruled out the theory that Stonehenge's Altar Stone came from the Orcadian Basin in north east Scotland, the BBC reported. Researchers tested the area but found no location matching the stone's characteristics, so

Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover says the strongest feeling of his trip around the moon was not awe at the view but a longing for other people. He also argues that anyone can find a version of that perspective without leaving the ground,

Light released by hydrogen atoms may have blown thin gas and dust out of some of the universe's earliest galaxies, making their dense star clusters easier to see. That is the conclusion of a new study in The Astrophysical Journal, as report

First lady Melania Trump hosted delegations from Russia and Ukraine at the White House on Thursday, Nov. 5. It was a rare face-to-face encounter that followed a humanitarian ceasefire she is credited by the White House with helping to broke

The third known interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, does contain water ice, but the ice is blended with dark dust in tiny grains, according to a new analysis of James Webb Space Telescope data. The result, reported by Universe Today, may also ch