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Last November, NASA and its European partners launched the Sentinel-6B satellite to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial industries, including shipping. The satellite now is flying 30 seconds behind its predecessor, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich. Both satellites...

A mountain chickadee waking up in the Sierra Nevada range on a snowy morning has no time to dawdle.Weighing about as much as a pencil, it needs to find stashed pine nuts within minutes or succumb to the howling...

Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science InstituteEarth planning date: Friday, Aug. 28, 2026The span of sols spanned by this blog post is noteworthy in several ways. First, Curiosity became a world-class (for Mars at least) mountaineer by...

Jaden Caradine knew he wanted to be an engineer at eight years old. He just took a winding road to get there. Before he enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, before he discovered the field that would become his focus, and...

Safety concerns about AI are growing, and now, a common method for catching misbehaving systems could have flaws, new research suggests.In experiments with AI agents, researchers found that chain-of-thought monitoring, in which one AI checks another’s work, became far...