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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Meridional monsoon circulation on the Monsoon Planet. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2418093122 Across the globe, monsoon rainfall switches on in spring and off in autumn. Until now, this seasonal pattern was primarily understood as an immediate response to changes
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Researchers have found that the thick and hazy atmosphere enveloping Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves in a very peculiar way. As detailed in a new paper published in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of scientists analyzed 13 years' worth of thermal infrared observations recorded by NASA and the European Space Agency's Cassini-Huygens mission. Their finding: that Titan's atmosphere wobbles like a gyroscope as it shifts with the seasons of its nearly 30 Earth-year cycle, instead of spi
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Caesar's Last Breath 23 May, 2025 How many molecules from Caesar’s last breath do we inhale with each breath we take? Shockingly, the answer is about one molecule—we actually do share breaths with Caesar! And, by extension, every breath we take is composed of the previous breaths of everyone who ever lived—Socrates, Lincoln, Einstein, etc. Isn’t that crazy? This is a classic exercise in Fermi estimation—it even has a book named after it. It’s a beautiful introduction to the power of napkin ma
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Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope, astronomers found evidence of cloud convection in the northern hemisphere of Titan. Most of Titan’s lakes and seas are located in that hemisphere, and are likely replenished by an occasional rain of methane and ethane. Webb also has detected a key carbon-containing molecule that gives insight into the chemical processes in Titan’s complex atmosphere. Titan is an intriguing world cloaked in a yellowish, smoggy
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Astronomers have finally captured visible auroras dazzling the skies above Mars — and they're unlike anything we see on Earth. The spectacular discovery was made using NASA's Perseverance rover. Thanks to careful planning by the researchers, the robotic explorer gazed up to the heavens just in time to catch a powerful solar storm slamming into Mars' thin atmosphere, creating a diffuse green glow that could be seen across the entire planet, dwarfing its Earth counterparts. The findings, publish
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NASA has just released stunning new images of auroras on Jupiter — and they're bigger and hundreds of times brighter than the northern lights on our puny world. The spectacular snapshots were captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, using its powerful infrared instruments. And the findings, published in a new study in the journal Nature Communications, are already providing astronomers with surprising new details about the gas planet's atmosphere. "It just blew me away!" lead author Jona
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The James Webb Space Telescope just zoomed in on the atmosphere of a planet discovered in 2020 -- and now we have the clearest data ever about an exoplanet. The awkwardly named Planet TOI-421b's exoplanet status means that it doesn't orbit our sun. (Exoplanets are defined as any planet beyond our solar system.) Don't expect to travel there any time soon. It's 244 light-years away from the Earth -- for comparison, the dwarf planet Pluto is only five and a half light-hours from us. The planet or
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Kosmos 482 has been trapped in Earth’s orbit for 53 years but its wandering journey is coming to an end. The failed Venus mission is expected to reenter through the atmosphere in a dramatic fall toward its home planet, where it may remain intact or scatter its bits across a still unknown location on either side of the equator. The Soviet-era spacecraft will plunge through Earth’s atmosphere sometime between May 8 to 12. As of now, the exact location of where Kosmos 482 will crash-land on Earth
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The James Webb Space Telescope just zoomed in on the atmosphere of a planet discovered in 2020 -- and now we have the clearest data ever about an exoplanet. The awkwardly named Planet TOI-421b's exoplanet status means that it doesn't orbit our sun. (Exoplanets are defined as any planet beyond our solar system.) Don't expect to travel there any time soon. It's 244 light-years away from the Earth -- for comparison, the dwarf planet Pluto is only five and a half light-hours from us. The planet or
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The James Webb Space Telescope just zoomed in on the atmosphere of a planet discovered in 2020 -- and now we have the clearest data ever about an exoplanet. The awkwardly named Planet TOI-421b's exoplanet status means that it doesn't orbit our sun. (Exoplanets are defined as any planet beyond our solar system.) Don't expect to travel there any time soon. It's 244 light-years away from the Earth -- for comparison, the dwarf planet Pluto is only five and a half light-hours from us. The planet or
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It can be tempting to assume that your intuitions about three-dimensional space carry over to higher-dimensional realms. After all, adding another dimension simply creates a new direction to move around in. It doesn’t change the defining features of space: its endlessness and its uniformity. But different dimensions have decidedly different personalities. In dimensions 8 and 24, it’s possible to pack balls together especially tightly. In other dimensions, there are “exotic” spheres that look ir
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In Brief Anysphere, the maker of AI-powered coding tool Cursor, has attracted $900 million in a fresh round of funding led by Thrive Capital, The Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the deal. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Accel are also participating in the round, which values Anysphere at about $9 billion, the report said. Cursor raised $105 million from Thrive and a16z at a $2.5 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported in December. Thrive Capital also led that ro
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A space observatory designed to map the entire sky over a period of two years to further our understanding of the early universe has started snapping images. SPHEREx, which launched in early March , got started with its observations this past week after over a month of setup procedures and system checks, according to NASA . The space telescope will complete about 14.5 orbits of Earth per day, capturing roughly 3,600 images daily and observing the sky in an unprecedented 102 wavelengths of infrar
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NASA’s newest eye on the cosmos is officially open for business, commencing its regular science operations this week with the main charge of mapping the universe. After a six-week calibration period, NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer—mercifully shortened to SPHEREx—has begun its two-year mission to build an ultra-detailed, full-sky map of the universe. Launched in early March after some delay, the space observatory is now snappi
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A 53-year-old Venus probe that failed to escape low Earth orbit is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in the coming weeks. Built to withstand extreme heat, parts of the spacecraft could survive the descent and crash on Earth. The lander module from an old Soviet spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere during the second week of May, according to Marco Langbroek, a satellite tracker based in Leiden, the Netherlands. “As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage thro
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A 53-year-old Venus probe that failed to escape low Earth orbit is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in the coming weeks. Built to withstand extreme heat, parts of the spacecraft could survive the descent and crash on Earth. The lander module from an old Soviet spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere during the second week of May, according to Marco Langbroek, a satellite tracker based in Leiden, the Netherlands. “As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage thro
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A 53-year-old Venus probe that failed to escape low Earth orbit is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in the coming weeks. Built to withstand extreme heat, parts of the spacecraft could survive the descent and crash on Earth. The lander module from an old Soviet spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere during the second week of May, according to Marco Langbroek, a satellite tracker based in Leiden, the Netherlands. “As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage thro
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When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai volcano blew its top in 2022, it wasn’t just one of the most powerful eruptions in modern history—it literally made waves in space. The explosion sent a towering plume of ash and gas over 31 miles (50 kilometers) into the atmosphere, punching far above where commercial jets cruise and most weather lives. But what really blew scientists’ minds? The ripple effect didn’t stop there. It kept going—all the way to the upper atmosphere, where our satellites circle th
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When news broke that OpenAI was in talks to acquire AI coding company Windsurf for $3 billion, one of the first questions on the mind of anyone following the space was likely: “Why not buy Cursor creator Anysphere instead?” After all, OpenAI Startup Fund has been an investor in Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, since the quickly-growing coding assistant’s seed round in late 2023. (Anysphere is often referred to by its product name, Cursor.) It turns out that OpenAI indeed approached Anysphere in
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On Wednesday, news broke that researchers had found the most compelling evidence yet of a "biosignature"—a chemical present at levels that are only consistent with life—on a distant exoplanet. It didn't take much time for some less-than-reliable news sources to go from there to talk of a planet that "could be 'teeming with life'" and the obvious follow-up, "Scientists reveal what aliens could REALLY look like on exoplanet K2-18b." Even in the best of circumstances, however, talk of a biosignatu
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Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions rise, potentially putting billions of people at risk of cancers and other diseases, according to new research published Wednesday in The Lancet. Eaten every day by billions of people and grown across the globe, rice is arguably the planet’s most important staple crop, with half the world’s population relying on it for the majority of its food needs, especially in develop
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Astronomers say they've found "the most promising signs yet" of chemicals on a planet beyond our Solar System that could indicate the presence of life on its surface. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the team found a possible 'biosignature' – the potential fingerprint of life – within its atmosphere, although they say they're remaining "cautious", and that this isn't a confirmed detection. The chemicals detected are the same as those produced by marine-dwelling organisms on Earth. The te
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In 2020, a group of scientists came up with an explanation for strange inconsistencies in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. They suggested that ice-encrusted mushballs rain down during intense thunderstorms on the gas giant. At the time, however, the notion of ammonia-packed slushee hailstones seemed too weird to be true, so they spent the next several years trying to prove it wrong. But Jupiter’s mushballs could not be denied. New research confirmed the bizarre phenomenon not only exists—it could be
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It’s often the case that the more that planets are studied and understood, the more remote the possibility of inhabiting them seems. Mars, for example, is the closest celestial body to Earth in terms of distance, but data shows its conditions are extremely hostile for life. Despite this, NASA has plans to send astronauts to the Red Planet, and Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of establishing a human presence there. In the short term, the solution to colonizing Mars is the construction of special
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Skygazers in the northern region of the US and Canada might catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights as soon as tonight and into tomorrow. The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center just issued a G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm watch for April 16, when plasma ejected from the sun is expected to reach Earth's magnetic field. Minor geomagnetic storm conditions are likely to carry on until April 17, the agency reported. The colorful lights splashed across the night sky are caused by geomagnetic storms i
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“The Wizard of Oz” may not be the first film shot in color, but many people remember it that way because of how director Victor Fleming cleverly used black-and-white film for the scenes set in Kansas. Likewise, “The Wizard of Oz” may not be the first film to be reconceptualized with AI, but it may soon be known for that, too. For months, thousands of researchers, programmers, visual effects artists, archivists and producers at Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, Sphere Studios, Magnopus, Warner Bro
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Following an announcement last week that Sphere Entertainment was creating an immersive version of The Wizard of Oz for its unique Las Vegas venue, we now have more details on how companies like Google and Magnopus are using AI to enhance the 86-year-old film to fill the Sphere’s massive 160,000-square-foot semi-spherical screen. But a collabora
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Google Over the past two years, Google has been working on using generative AI to upscale and augment The Wizard of Oz, the beloved 1939 film that has been a touchstone for generations. Google DeepMind and Google Cloud — along with Warner Bros. Discovery and Magnopus — are doing this work to show the movie in its entirety at Sphere, the iconic spherical theater in Las Vegas. Today, I was in the audience to see the first look at what Oz will be like there when it starts playing on August 28, 20
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Thanks to the first Wicked movie and its upcoming sequel, there’s some Wizard of Oz fever going around. The original 1939 film celebrated its 85th birthday last year ahead of Wicked, and now it’s getting the spotlight once more thanks to the Las Vegas Sphere. Beginning in August, the venue will provide a “fully immersive experience” for Wizard of Oz that will play on the Sphere’s 160,000-square foot screen. Made in collaboration with Google, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Magnopus, this new versio
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While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made a highly unusual detection. The agency — which has overseen the development of cutting-edge military technologies and out-there concepts for decades — encountered the distant signature of a SpaceX Falcon 9 reentering the atmosphere during a test in New Mexico last year. The goal of DARPA's AtmoSense program, which kicked off in la
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