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James Webb Finds Evidence of Free-Floating Planets So Large They Can Gather Their Own Planetary Systems

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-01 12:30:04

So much for heliocentrism. An international team of astronomers using observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence of massive planets out there that're capable of forming their own planetary systems — without a star. These planets would be the center of something like a mini version of our solar system where other, smaller planets revolve around it. But without the light of a star, these systems, if they exist, would go largely overlooked by our telescopes, lost to

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Get Ready to See Six Planets Line Up in the Upcoming Planet Parade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 11:27:00

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, only occur about once or twice a year, with the most recent one in February showing off all seven planets in our solar system at once. The next one will feature six of our closest celestial neighbors, and the event starts on Aug. 20. The six planets sharing the sky will be Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Mars

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Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-12-02 15:45:26

Jason Hong, 75, has had his 1958 Cessna Skyhawk stolen, and returned, multiple times in the last couple of months, but he and police have no idea who has been taking the colorful plane. While Jason Hong was celebrating his 75th birthday, he suddenly found himself thinking about his 1958 Cessna Skyhawk, a white and red single-engine beauty with colorful stripes that he calls his “old treasure.” He doesn’t fly it much anymore, but given the occasion he resolved to visit his plane as soon as he c

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Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's plane. But why?

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-12-02 21:45:26

Jason Hong, 75, has had his 1958 Cessna Skyhawk stolen, and returned, multiple times in the last couple of months, but he and police have no idea who has been taking the colorful plane. While Jason Hong was celebrating his 75th birthday, he suddenly found himself thinking about his 1958 Cessna Skyhawk, a white and red single-engine beauty with colorful stripes that he calls his “old treasure.” He doesn’t fly it much anymore, but given the occasion he resolved to visit his plane as soon as he c

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If This Planet Is Real, It Would Break So Many Records

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-06 08:05:23

Exoplanet hunters have had an eye on Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth at just four light-years away, for decades. We know that it consists of two Sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, as well as a faint red dwarf star, Proxima Centauri. But while researchers have previously discovered three exoplanets orbiting Proxima Centauri, the search for more worlds orbiting the system’s other two stars has proven difficult. Until now: New evidence from the James Webb Space

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See 6 Planets Align in the Night Sky This August

wired.com Gretchen Rundorff 2025-12-09 17:14:56

On August 10, six planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will line up in an arc in the night sky. Four of these planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn—can be seen with the naked eye, while Uranus and Neptune will be visible through a very strong pair of skywatching binoculars or a backyard telescope. While August 10 marks the beginning of this planetary parade, these six planets will be visible until the final days of August, when Mercury sinks lower on the horizon an

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The Next Planet Parade Is Coming Soon: Here's How to See Six Planets Line Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 21:00:09

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, only occur about once or twice a year, with the most recent one in February showing off all seven planets in our solar system at once. The next one will feature six of our closest celestial neighbors, and the event starts on Aug. 20. The six planets sharing the sky will be Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Mars

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A DH106 1A Comet has been restored at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum

news.ycombinator.com Barry Neild 2025-12-12 06:14:07

Astronomy Aviation news Air travel safety Airplane crashes See all topics Follow Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments when we burst through ominous clouds into bright blue skies, and

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The world's first passenger jet was a death trap. Now it's brought back to life

news.ycombinator.com Barry Neild 2025-12-12 18:14:07

Astronomy Aviation news Air travel safety Airplane crashes See all topics Follow Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments when we burst through ominous clouds into bright blue skies, and

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The Next Planet Parade Takes Place at the End of This Month. Here's How to See the Planets Line Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 11:00:14

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, only occur about once or twice a year, with the most recent one in February showing off all seven planets in our solar system at once. The next one will feature six of our closest celestial neighbors, and the event starts on Aug. 20. The six planets sharing the sky will be Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Mars

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Google’s Newest AI Model Acts Like a Satellite to Track Climate Change

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-12-16 21:57:44

Google’s newest AI model is going to scour the Earth and, ideally, help it out. That's the plan, anyway. The mission is to find out once and for all, in fine detail, what we are doing to our planet. Crucially, once the model has supposedly done this it will also, apparently, explain where we might be able to best put things in place to help our world. AlphaEarth Foundations, an offshoot of Google’s DeepMind AI model, aims to leverage machine learning and all the gobs and gobs of data that Googl

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Google’s Newest AI Model Acts like a Satellite to Track Climate Change

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-12-21 21:57:44

Google’s newest AI model is going to scour the Earth and, ideally, help it out. That's the plan, anyway. The mission is to find out once and for all, in fine detail, what we are doing to our planet. Crucially, once the model has supposedly done this it will also, apparently, explain where we might be able to best put things in place to help our world. AlphaEarth Foundations, an offshoot of Google’s DeepMind AI model, aims to leverage machine learning and all the gobs and gobs of data that Googl

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Space Force’s Secretive X-37B Is Returning to Space With New Tech

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-25 03:55:45

Just a few months after wrapping up its seventh test flight in orbit, Space Force’s experimental vehicle known as X-37B is ready for another go. For its upcoming mission, the spaceplane will test new technologies meant to bolster military capabilities in space, such as a navigational sensor that could replace GPS. The U.S. Space Force is set to launch the Boeing-built orbital test vehicle, designated as OTV-8, on August 21 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket

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A Secretive US Space Plane Will Soon Test Quantum Navigation Technology

wired.com Eric Berger 2025-12-25 17:30:00

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle–shaped vehicle on the program’s eighth mission next month. The launch of the vehicle, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is scheduled to occur no earlier than August 21 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the tw

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A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 12:38:12

The X-37B, the US Space Force's secretive space plane, will soon take flight again. On Monday, the Space Force announced that it will fly the small, Space Shuttle-shaped vehicle on the program's eighth mission next month. The launch of the vehicle, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is scheduled to occur no earlier than August 21 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There are two active X-37Bs in the Space Force fleet, both built by Boeing. The first made its debut flight in April 2010. Since then, the tw

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This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-12-29 08:48:16

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there are now five confirmed planets in this solar system’s “temperate” or “habitable” zone, the region in a solar system where liquid water could exist on planets’ surfaces. The newly discovered planet, called “L 98-59 f,” managed to evade previous observations because it doesn’t pass between Earth and it

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Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-30 17:10:39

It’s been more than a year since the Ingenuity helicopter broke one of its blades, ending its experimental stint on Mars. On the heels of this wildly successful NASA mission, a defense contractor has introduced a new design concept to succeed the iconic Mars chopper—one that would release multiple vehicles to spread across the Martian landscape at the same time, like a coordinated swim team diving into the water. Virginia-based AeroVironment (AV), in partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labor

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Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-01 22:01:49

Most people, after suffering consequences for a bad decision, will alter their future behavior to avoid a similar negative outcome. That's just common sense. But many social circles have that one friend who never seems to learn from those consequences, repeatedly self-sabotaging themselves with the same bad decisions. When it comes to especially destructive behaviors, like addictions, the consequences can be severe or downright tragic. Why do they do this? Researchers at the University of New S

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Fire on Virgin Airlines Flight Linked to Power Bank in Passenger’s Bag

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-02 22:15:45

Did a power bank start a fire on a recent Virgin flight? That’s the question investigators are currently trying to answer, as they probe an incident in Australia where a woman’s bag burst into flames. The incident, which involved a flight from Sydney, took place around 9 a.m. on Monday, just as the plane was descending to its destination, the New York Times reports. After the bag burst into flames, the plane’s cabin filled with smoke, according to reports. The plane’s crew managed to put out th

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The Next Planet Parade Takes Place at the End of August. Here's How to See It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 14:44:36

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets in the sky at the same time. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, only occur about once or twice a year, with the most recent one in February showing off all seven planets at once. The next one will feature six of our closest celestial neighbors, and the event starts on Aug. 20. The six planets sharing the sky will be Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Mars will technically be

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A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by astronomers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 04:39:57

A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by Montreal astronomers UdeMNouvelles 07/22/2025 Illustration of the planetary system of L 98-59. Five small exoplanets orbit closely around this red dwarf star, located 35 light-years away. In the foreground is the habitable-zone super-Earth L 98-59 f, whose existence was conùfirmed in this study. Credit: Benoît Gougeon/UdeM Credit: Benoit Gougeon, Université de Montréal A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially hab

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UdeM researchers confirm a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 16:39:57

A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by Montreal astronomers UdeMNouvelles 07/22/2025 Illustration of the planetary system of L 98-59. Five small exoplanets orbit closely around this red dwarf star, located 35 light-years away. In the foreground is the habitable-zone super-Earth L 98-59 f, whose existence was conùfirmed in this study. Credit: Benoît Gougeon/UdeM Credit: Benoit Gougeon, Université de Montréal A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially hab

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Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

news.ycombinator.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-02 23:42:53

Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and letting aerodynamics do the rest. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo simulated the release of a paper airplane from the International Space Station (ISS) to see if would survive atmospheric reentry. In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash problem. Rather than relying solely on metals to co

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Scientists Say That Uranus Appears to Have a Girlfriend

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-11 10:00:39

When checking out Uranus, scientists discovered something exciting: that the planet appears to have a long-term... well, call it a situationship. In a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper flagged by Universe Today, an international group of researchers detailed finding a so-called "Centaur" — a small, icy and rocky body that sits between Uranus and Neptune and is designated as a minor planet — that appears to have been keeping up with Uranus in a delicate cosmic dance for thousands or even millio

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Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-11 11:10:56

Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and letting aerodynamics do the rest. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo simulated the release of a paper airplane from the International Space Station (ISS) to see if would survive atmospheric reentry. In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash problem. Rather than relying solely on metals to co

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Exec Producer Confirms Identity of Rhys Darby’s Character

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-13 12:30:16

It’s very common for TV cast and crew to do spoiler-y interviews that run after a certain episode airs to address standout moments. Andor did it after Bix’s big shocker; The Last of Us did it after Joel’s big shocker; the Severance gang did it pretty much weekly throughout season two’s many big shockers. But what’s not ideal is when a showrunner type has to clarify something from an episode that… wasn’t made clear by said episode. That happened this week on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The se

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Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 22:24:15

TL;DR - if you are not interested in an in-depth overview of what was wrong with the game and how it was fixed, just follow the link to check out a concise changelog and grab SilentPatch for Far Cry: Download SilentPatch for Far Cry Upon downloading, all you need to do is to extract the archive to game’s directory and that’s it! Overview Far Cry (developed by Crytek) once a game considered an example of visual fidelity and de facto a benchmark of then-modern PCs, turns out not to be free of

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Someone paid $5.3 million for a piece of Mars

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-15 08:15:02

Add this to the list of "things that might be fun if you had a buttload of money": Someone forked over $5.3 million in a Sotheby's auction to own a piece of Mars. The Red Planet meteorite was discovered in 2023 in a remote area of the Sahara Desert in Niger. Martian meteorites of any size are incredibly rare. To get here, an asteroid first hits the Red Planet to eject material from its surface. (Sotheby's says there are only 19 Martian craters large enough to have spit out this one.) That chunk

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The password manager I recommend most has its own VPN and long list of features

zdnet.com Emily Long 2026-01-17 04:00:14

ZDNET's key takeaways Dashlane is a premium password manager that costs $60 annually for an individual, or $90/year for a family subscription up to 10 users. It offers seamless credential storage with privacy- and security-focused extras like dark web monitoring and a premium subscription to Hotspot Shield's VPN The platform is pricey for password management alone, so if you don't need a VPN, you may want to look elsewhere. View now at Dashlane The best password managers make it easy to save

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Astronomers Discover Potential Dwarf Planet Lurking Way Beyond Pluto

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-17 22:20:44

Astronomers in Japan have spotted a distant object orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune, pointing to an extraordinary event that took place during the earliest years of the solar system. Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope, perched atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii, to make the discovery. They observed a small object orbiting at a farthest distance of 252 AU from the Sun, in which one astronomical unit equals the average distance between the Sun and Earth. Scientists gave it the formal designat

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James Webb Finds Evidence of Free-Floating Planets So Large They Can Gather Their Own Planetary Systems

Get Ready to See Six Planets Line Up in the Upcoming Planet Parade

Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna

Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's plane. But why?

If This Planet Is Real, It Would Break So Many Records

See 6 Planets Align in the Night Sky This August

The Next Planet Parade Is Coming Soon: Here's How to See Six Planets Line Up

A DH106 1A Comet has been restored at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum

The world's first passenger jet was a death trap. Now it's brought back to life

The Next Planet Parade Takes Place at the End of This Month. Here's How to See the Planets Line Up

Google’s Newest AI Model Acts Like a Satellite to Track Climate Change

Google’s Newest AI Model Acts like a Satellite to Track Climate Change

Space Force’s Secretive X-37B Is Returning to Space With New Tech

A Secretive US Space Plane Will Soon Test Quantum Navigation Technology

A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology

This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets

Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing

Study sheds light on why some people keep self-sabotaging

Fire on Virgin Airlines Flight Linked to Power Bank in Passenger’s Bag

The Next Planet Parade Takes Place at the End of August. Here's How to See It

A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by astronomers

UdeM researchers confirm a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59

Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

Scientists Say That Uranus Appears to Have a Girlfriend

Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Exec Producer Confirms Identity of Rhys Darby’s Character

Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry (2018)

Someone paid $5.3 million for a piece of Mars

The password manager I recommend most has its own VPN and long list of features

Astronomers Discover Potential Dwarf Planet Lurking Way Beyond Pluto

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