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A study published Oct. 2 in Communications Earth & Environment reports a link between phytoplankton blooms in the high-latitude North Atlantic and how much central Europe's vegetation grows over the…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried four crew members toward the International Space Station at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2026, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Their Dragon capsule…
Three small spacecraft funded by NASA reached orbit on Oct. 1, 2026, lifting off at 11:32 a.m. PDT from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Transporter-18…
Google says a prototype satellite carrying its own AI processors reached orbit on Oct. 1, that its team has confirmed contact with the spacecraft, and that it is operating as expected. The satellite…
Chemists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have made pyridine, a ring of five carbon atoms and one nitrogen, inside laboratory ice built to imitate the frozen coatings of interstellar dust grains.…
Nutrient pollution leaves more of the carbon buried in lake beds unprotected and easier to break down, according to a study published Oct. 2 in Communications Earth & Environment. Lake sediments hold…
Researchers reported Oct. 1 in Scientific Reports that the situation a group of elephants is in can be worked out from the sound of several of them rumbling over one another, not only from calls made…
Astronomers have confirmed a planet about twice the width of Earth orbiting TOI-210, a small, cool red dwarf, once every 9.01 days. The result comes from a preprint posted to arXiv on Sept. 28 by a…
Siyu Liu, Douglas R. Higgs and colleagues at the University of Oxford have found the DNA switches that keep an embryonic blood gene shut off after early pregnancy, and report that disabling two of…
The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service reported on Oct. 2 that western Europe had its warmest summer in 2026 since its rankings began in 1950, averaging 21.7 °C across June, July and…
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have assembled 21 young star systems whose dust appears to be the wreckage of collisions between rocky bodies, and have sorted them into two groups…
Forecasters at the Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre used laser measurements from Europe's EarthCARE satellite to verify how high the ash plume from Anak Krakatau was reaching, the European Space…