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After decades of slowing progress, artificial intelligence is accelerating breakthroughs across medicine, physics, and biology. Scientists who once worried we'd found all the "easy" discoveries are now racing toward solutions once thought impossible.
Japan successfully launched a spacecraft on a groundbreaking five-year journey to collect samples from Phobos, one of Mars's two small moons. The mission could unlock secrets about how our solar system formed and whether life could exist beyond Earth.
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted something lighting up twice in what appeared to be completely empty sky. Scientists have no idea what it is, and the possibilities are thrilling.
A train delayed by a solar storm in Victorian England has finally been dated correctly, solving a mystery that's puzzled scientists for nearly two centuries. The discovery rewrites the early history of how space weather first began disrupting human technology.
Archaeologists in Germany discovered 11 ancient Celtic coins from the first century B.C. while preparing a former sports field for construction. The find represents the largest Celtic coin hoard ever discovered in Thuringia, offering new insights into ancient trade routes.
Massive swarms of bogong moths are appearing as "rain clouds" on weather radars across eastern Australia, thrilling scientists who now have a powerful new tool to track and save these endangered insects. The phenomenon could unlock decades of missing data about one of Australia's most mysterious migrations.
A Japanese spacecraft just blasted off on a groundbreaking journey to collect the first-ever samples from a Martian moon and bring them back to Earth. The mission could unlock secrets about how our entire Solar System formed.
Deep in a Chinese mountain, researchers at a new underground observatory are hunting neutrinos, ghostly particles that might finally explain why our universe exists. The experiment could solve one of physics' biggest mysteries and reveal what's missing from our understanding of reality.
Japan just launched a groundbreaking mission to collect the first-ever samples from Phobos, one of Mars's mysterious moons, and bring them home to Earth. The spacecraft will spend years studying the tiny moon before returning with rock samples that could reveal how moons form and even how life begins on planets.
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Japan just launched a groundbreaking mission to bring back samples from Mars' mysterious moon Phobos, potentially unlocking secrets about how life began. In five years, we could finally understand where the Red Planet's two tiny moons came from.
Japan's space agency just launched a groundbreaking mission to collect samples from Mars' moon Phobos and return them to Earth by 2031. If successful, these will be the first samples ever brought back from a moon other than our own.
Dr. Garry Hunt, one of eight scientists chosen from nearly 1,000 applicants for NASA's Voyager imaging team, shares how the mission transformed our understanding of the outer planets. The probes, launched in 1977 to take advantage of a planetary alignment that happens once every 176 years, continue transmitting data nearly 50 years later.