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- Exercise keeps astronauts' hearts strong enough for flight to Mars
- How can parents handle squabbles between kids?
- Earth's chorus waves show limited link to rapid electron loss from radiation belts
- Researcher studies mystical gemstones with a future in space exploration
- Closing the space gap: A more precise way to measure distance between quasar pairs
- A 16-minute train delay shows how a solar storm disrupted Victorian technology
- A new surface atlas of Phobos will help MMX mission collect its samples
- Engineering News Today — September 6, 2026
- Germany's Isar Aerospace launches rocket into orbit from Norway
- The biggest black hole merger ever observed could be less massive than it appears
- Hubble tracks new decagon encircling Saturn's south pole
- Precision optics to make plant health visible from space
- NASA's newest Roman space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe
- NASA’s Roman telescope will see 100 times more sky than Hubble
- SpaceX announces plans for $100 billion 'spaceport' in Louisiana
- Engineering News Today — August 20, 2026
- What beats seeing eclipses from space? Try the northern and southern lights
- Levitating molten metal on ISS could refine ultra-strong metallic glass
- Mars attacks: How much dust from the red planet is safe to breathe?
- Scientists may have finally proved that “empty” space isn’t really empty
- Radio telescopes help scientists map molecules in space and uncover where and how stars form
- Mirage or miracle? JWST finds earliest known 'black hole star' at cosmic dawn
- Webb reveals oxygen-rich dust and water surviving near Milky Way's central black hole
- Engineering News Today — August 7, 2026
- UK observatory nervously watches growing space junk threat
- Space kit for future 'away missions' tested in Scotland
- Designing memory-centric chips for future space telescopes
- Surprising boiling behavior in liquids could advance future space missions
- NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aces Mars flyby capturing stunning timelapse video
- JWST captures rare glimpse of early black hole growing inside network of young galaxies
- Hubble Space Telescope may have found a planet born after its star died
- A 9-billion-year-old signal could help explain dark energy
- NASA astronauts splash down after 100 million miles in space
- NASA’s Webb finds signs of Mars-sized worlds smashing together
- Webb finds a surprising atmosphere on a scorching lava world
- ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter
- Powerful simulations reveal how the first stars changed the universe
- NASA’s Roman telescope just opened its planet-hunting eye