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30 stories · page 3 of 4ESA updated the software on a probe 140 million kilometers from Earth
The European Space Agency uploaded a software upgrade to the Hera probe while it's flying about 140 million km from us. The update brings online the remaining instruments and the autonomous navigation ahead of its encounter with a pair of asteroids this fall.
Read →New Horizons woke up after 321 days of sleep, 9.5 billion kilometers out
NASA confirmed that the New Horizons probe has come out of the longest hibernation in its mission and is in good health. The wake-up happened on 23 June; the spacecraft is already starting to transmit science data from the Kuiper Belt.
Read →Hayabusa2 flew within a kilometer of an asteroid - practice for deflecting dangerous rocks
On July 5, the Japanese probe Hayabusa2 passed about 1 km from the asteroid Torifune at a speed of around 5 km/s. Beyond the science, this is a test of navigation precision - the foundation of planetary defense.
Read →James Webb detected the same unexplained signature on Pluto and Titan
5.11 microns. That's exactly where a team found an unidentified absorption in spectra from the James Webb telescope - on the surfaces of both Titan and Pluto. Likely from a molecule never seen anywhere else in the Solar System.
Read →Anthropic launched a science mode and is handing out research credits
Claude now conducts several agents across 60+ scientific databases - a dedicated science mode built on the lab's own infrastructure. Plus grants in compute credits for research projects.
Read →Brain to text without surgery: 61% of words read through MEG
Meta showed Brain2Qwerty v2 - it decodes sentences in real time straight from brain activity recorded non-invasively. 61% accuracy on average, 78% for the best participant. The code is open to everyone.
Read →TESS found a planet in a way it wasn't built for
TESS caught a super-Jupiter 40,000 light-years away through gravitational microlensing - for a telescope whose normal range is 150 light-years, this is a first.
Read →An AI brain in lunar orbit
Firefly Aerospace will fly NVIDIA Jetson into orbit around the Moon - the first one there. It processes the data onboard, instead of downlinking 120 GB to Earth. Edge AI, lifted into space.
Read →An AI co-scientist that proposes research hypotheses
DeepMind showed off Co-Scientist - a multi-agent system built on Gemini that generates, debates, and develops research hypotheses. It has already been applied to liver fibrosis, ALS, and cellular aging.
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