News on Space/Tech/Science

April 19th - April 25th, 2025

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Saturday/Sunday - April 19th - 20th

• Gaia space observatory bids farewell after a decade of mapping the stars

• Behold, a Genuinely Promising Sign of Alien Life

• Will the US hand space leadership to China by pulling Nasa out of Mars race?

• Study unveils volcanic history and clues to ancient life on Mars

• Rethinking neutron star mergers: Study explores the effects of magnetic fields on their oscillating frequencies

• NASA's oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday

• China tests non-nuclear hydrogen bomb, science paper shows

• Running robots put through their paces alongside humans in Beijing half-marathon

• Can robots outrun humans? This Chinese half-marathon found out

• From gifted student to AI hero, DeepSeek founder inspires a nation

• Chinese team’s AI paper paved the way for ChatGPT. Greater glory awaits by 2030

• China offers high-performance, low-cost satellites to belt and road countries

• A Soyuz capsule with 2 Russians and 1 American returns to Earth from the International Space Station

Monday - April 21st

• A green comet is fading fast after its trip around the sun

• Keeping Kids Interested in Science Is a Matter of Language

• Quantum Randomness Could Create a Spoof-Proof Internet

• What blew up the local bubble?

• How astronomers compare telescopes

• Turning down starlight to spot new exoplanets

• Delivering payloads to Mars with CHAMPS

• The evidence for ancient supernovae is buried underground

• Searching for life on Mars in the snow and ice

• Did it rain or snow on ancient Mars? New study suggests it did

• Did we actually find signs of alien life on K2-18b? 'We should expect some false alarms and this may be one'

• A new concept for an astrobiology mission to Enceladus

• Twinkling star reveals the shocking secrets of turbulent plasma in our cosmic neighborhood

• NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin

• Scientists found a potential sign of life on a distant planet—an astronomer explains why many are still skeptical

• Astronomers uncover missing merger companion and dark matter bridge in the Perseus cluster

• Astronomers determine the fate of a compact dwarf galaxy

• China’s sixth-gen stealth fighter test flights reveal high-level manoeuvrability

• China’s satellite self-reliance could get a boost from Trump’s tariffs

• China’s humanoid robot sector enters mass production in 2025

• A green comet likely is breaking apart and won’t be visible to the naked eye

• FAA to deploy new pilot messaging database system by September

• Delta plane suffers engine fire in Orlando, forcing evacuation

Tuesday - April 22nd

• Lawmakers urge FAA to address safety issues at Washington airport after incidents

• US FAA takes action to prevent helicopter incidents near Las Vegas airport

• SpaceX knocks out 1st of 2 launches, both with sonic boom warnings

• What is the most powerful telescope in the world?

• Intelligent neural network model enhances space reactor shielding design

• New study reveals how solar coronal holes spray solar wind like a sun garden hose

• Scientists recreate deep space chemistry linked to first metabolic systems on Earth

• Astronomers discover a planet that's rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail

• Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus

• Properties of supernova remnant in nearby galaxy explored in radio continuum study

• Scientists improve gravitational wave identification with machine learning

• Galaxies at 'cosmic noon': Research gives deep dive into universe's wild growth spurt

• China to launch new crewed mission into space this week

• China finds way to land its stealth jet on aircraft carriers. How does it work?

• US says internet’s ‘future at stake’, urges court to break up Google

• Air India eyes Boeing planes rejected by China as Trump tariffs reshape aviation

• China’s critical metal exports plummet as trade war curbs take effect

• Chinese robotics star Unitree opens Hangzhou factory amid humanoid frenzy

• China’s humanoid robot half-marathon puts technology’s limits on public display

• China cracks quantum code barrier. For how long will our data be safe?

• China reveals new team of astronauts for space station launch

Wednesday - April 23rd

• Firing Science Advisors Will Leave the U.S. Senseless

• The sun's natural gravitational lensing is more powerful than you thought

• Scientists claim to have found evidence of alien life. But 'biosignatures' might hide more than they reveal

• Eye on infinity: NASA celebrates Hubble's 35th year in orbit

• Why Webb may never be able to find evidence of life on another world

• The Webb Telescope is making incredible discoveries: It may go dark

• Innovative approaches advance search for ice on the moon

• A possible explanation for why there is so much molecular hydrogen in space

• TESS detects new sub-Neptune exoplanet more than three times larger than Earth

• Aussies capture incredible footage of meteor

• China’s iFlytek touts reasoning model trained entirely with Huawei’s AI chips

• China reveals new team of astronauts for space station launch

• Chinese engineers used gravitational slingshots to rescue a pair of satellites

• Hong Kong’s first astronaut could serve on space missions next year

• China on pace to land astronauts on moon by 2030, space agency says

• Veteran Chinese astronaut to lead fresh crew to space station

• NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin

Thursday - April 24th

• US FAA commercial space chief opting for buyout, agency says

• Celebrate Hubble Space Telescope’s 35th Birthday with Stunning Images

• Slashing NASA’s Programs Will Squander America’s Place in Space

• New solar instrument captures first high-resolution images at world's largest telescope

• NASA's EZIE mission captures 'first light'

• NASA tests key spacesuit parts inside this icy chamber

• Seeing the waves that make the sun's corona so hot

• NASA orbiter spots Curiosity rover making tracks to next science stop

• NASA's Roman mission shares detailed plans to scour skies

• Astrophysicists solve the mystery as to why some meteorites look less shocked

• Largest imaging spectro-polarimeter achieves first light at solar telescope

• High velocity gas-clump in Milky Way neighborhood may be a dark galaxy

• Webb spots clues of a black hole at the heart of nearby galaxy M83

• Super-Earths are common outside the solar system, new study shows

• Dark matter search: Dimming starlight may signal passage of dark compact objects

• Fifteen new giant radio galaxies discovered with ASKAP

• A novel concept for a multiplanetary crewed mission to Mars and Ceres

• Spaceship carrying 3 Chinese astronauts docks with Tiangong space station in latest crew rotation

• China unveils drone-mounted quantum device for submarine detection in South China Sea

• Chinese astronauts set to blast off for space station

• China launches 3 astronauts to replace crew on Chinese space station

• Trade war and leery travelers have airlines trimming flights and withdrawing financial guidance

• Trump science cuts target bird feeder research, AI literacy work and more

• Spaceship carrying 3 Chinese astronauts docks with Tiangong space station in latest crew rotation

• Marie Curie’s Mentorship Led to Networks of Support for Female Scientists

• Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump

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Friday - April 25th

• Russian satellite linked to nuclear weapon program appears out of control, U.S. analysts say

• Can There Be Sound in Space?

• Science Isn’t about Domination. It’s about Democracy

• Fully automated laboratory heads into orbit to test food production in space

• NASA Marshall fires up hybrid rocket motor to prep for moon landings

• Multi-spacecraft radio observations trace the heliospheric magnetic field