Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

Researchers in South Korea and the United States report a way to separate crude oil at room temperature, using a cheap membrane that the oil itself turns into a precise filter. According to ScienceDaily, which published material from the Ko

China has outlined a four-mission campaign that would end with astronauts landing on the moon "before 2030," according to media reports on a space symposium held Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 in Beijing. Space.com reported that the timeline matches ea

Women who had more years of natural estrogen exposure tended to show fewer signs of small blood vessel disease in the brain at age 70, according to a study published in the journal Neurology. ScienceAlert reported that women who used menopa

Some of the most striking features of the night sky are places where stars seem to be missing. According to EarthSky, these dark patches are dark nebulae, clouds of gas and dust thick enough to block the light of stars behind them. A few ca

Two small NASA spacecraft bound for Mars are returning to Earth for a gravity assist. The twin ESCAPADE probes, nicknamed Blue and Gold, will fly past our planet on Nov. 7 and Nov. 9, 2026, according to EarthSky. At closest approach each pr

Researchers have built a toothbrush that makes its own electricity as the bristles bend, with no battery, and uses it to damage bacteria linked to cavities and gum disease. In a three-month trial, people using it had less plaque, less gum i

The Akrotiri Peninsula, the southernmost tip of Cyprus, began as a separate island that was later tied to the main island by two natural land bridges, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. The agency published Landsat 8 images of the area

A new preprint estimates that a quantum computer built from 22,593 so-called cat qubits could break RSA-2048 encryption, a widely used standard for online security, in 3.14 days. ScienceAlert reported on the work, which comes from a team le

NASA has added a new experimental aircraft to its fleet of research planes. The agency unveiled the X-70 Fractal on Wednesday at the UP.Summit at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, describing it as a crewed, high-performance platform for test

A spacecraft orbiting Mars has picked up a possible signal of hydrogen chloride gas leaking from rifts near Alba Mons, the largest volcano on the planet by surface area. The researchers read it as a sign of hot magma beneath the surface, ac

The 2026 Antarctic ozone hole ranked as the seventh largest in 48 years of monitoring, but Earth's ozone layer is still on track for long-term recovery, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported. Scientist

Mars may not be the geologically dead world many scientists have assumed. A spacecraft orbiting the planet has detected a volcanic gas leaking to the surface through fresh cracks in the Alba Mons region, according to Space.com, which sugges