Science

• 6 planets line up in Connecticut's sky tonight, NASA says - CT Insider

  1. 6 planets line up in Connecticut's sky tonight, NASA says  CT Insider
  2. How and when to see 6 planets aligned in a planetary parade  CNN
  3. When to see 6 planet parade on Feb. 28. Ohio weather, best viewing spots  Akron Beacon Journal
  4. Planetary parade 2026: Six planets visible in night sky  BBC
  5. Six planets to align in "planetary parade" above California. Here's how to see it.  CBS News

• 'Pushing this competition': SpaceX's Starship might not fly on NASA's newly revamped Artemis 3 mission - Space

  1. 'Pushing this competition': SpaceX's Starship might not fly on NASA's newly revamped Artemis 3 mission  Space
  2. NASA abruptly changes its roadmap to putting boots back on the moon  CNN
  3. NASA Adds Mission to Artemis Lunar Program, Updates Architecture  NASA (.gov)
  4. NASA Shakes Up Artemis Schedule, Aiming for 2 Moon Landings in 2028  The New York Times
  5. NASA announces major overhaul of Artemis moon program amid safety concerns, delays: "We've got to get back to basics"  CBS News

• Lunar eclipse 2026: When to see the March ‘blood moon’ in N.J. - NJ.com

  1. Lunar eclipse 2026: When to see the March ‘blood moon’ in N.J.  NJ.com
  2. A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red on Tuesday across several continents  NBC News
  3. The Eerie ‘Blood’ Moon Will Grace the Night Sky Next Week, Thanks to a Total Lunar Eclipse  Smithsonian Magazine
  4. Kenwood’s Robert Ferguson Observatory to host ‘Lunar Eclipse Focus Night’  Sonoma Index-Tribune
  5. See the 'blood moon' lunar eclipse in Northern California  Record Searchlight

• Back to the repair shop for NASA’s lunar ambitions - The Washington Post

  1. Back to the repair shop for NASA’s lunar ambitions  The Washington Post
  2. NASA Invites Media to Discuss Next Steps for Artemis Campaign  NASA (.gov)
  3. A new problem throws four astronauts’ impending moon journey into uncertainty  CNN
  4. NASA on ‘aggressive’ schedule to complete SLS repairs for April launch  SpaceNews
  5. Artemis 2 moon rocket rolls back to the shop photo of the day Feb. 27, 2026  Space

• Scientists Reveal the Surprising Sex Lives of Neanderthals and Early Humans - 404 Media

  1. Scientists Reveal the Surprising Sex Lives of Neanderthals and Early Humans  404 Media
  2. Neanderthal males and human females had babies together, ancient DNA reveals  The Washington Post
  3. Humans and Neanderthals interbred — but it was mostly male Neanderthals and female humans who coupled up, study finds  Live Science
  4. Male Neanderthals and female humans shaped modern DNA through ancient interbreeding, study finds  Archaeology News Online Magazine
  5. What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals  The New York Times

• The Rubin Observatory’s alert system sent 800,000 pings on its first night - The Verge

  1. The Rubin Observatory’s alert system sent 800,000 pings on its first night  The Verge
  2. Get Ready For The Rubin Observatory's Deluge Of Discoveries  Universe Today
  3. Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a night  Scientific American
  4. 20 billion galaxies: new survey of the sky will reveal the universe in unprecedented detail  The Conversation
  5. NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Real-Time Discovery Machine for Monitoring the Night Sky  Rubin Observatory

• NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, a Pittsburgh-area native, suffered an unprecedented medical issue in space - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  1. NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, a Pittsburgh-area native, suffered an unprecedented medical issue in space  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  2. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Astronaut Update  NASA (.gov)
  3. NASA astronaut Mike Fincke reveals it was his medical issue that led to unprecedented early mission end  CNN
  4. New Details Revealed on NASA's First Medical Evacuation  ScienceAlert
  5. NASA astronaut who had medical problem in space breaks silence  Mashable

• Could Mars soil block Earth microbes? 'Water bears' offer a clue - Phys.org

  Could Mars soil block Earth microbes? 'Water bears' offer a clue  Phys.orgView Full Coverage on Google News

• Eerie brainlike nebula captured in stunning new JWST images - Yahoo

  1. Eerie brainlike nebula captured in stunning new JWST images  Yahoo
  2. NASA’s Webb Examines Cranium Nebula  NASA Science (.gov)
  3. James Webb Space Telescope performs brain surgery on mysterious 'Exposed Cranium Nebula'  Space
  4. The Cosmic Brain As Seen By The JWST  Universe Today
  5. Webb’s Infrared Vision Reveals Planetary Nebula that Looks Strikingly Like Celestial Brain  Sci.News

• Acing this new AI exam — which its creators say is the toughest in the world — might point to the first signs of AGI - Live Science

  1. Acing this new AI exam — which its creators say is the toughest in the world — might point to the first signs of AGI  Live Science
  2. Stay Calm: ‘Humanity’s Final Test’ Has Begun  BIOENGINEER.ORG
  3. Don't panic: 'Humanity's last exam' has begun  Tech Xplore
  4. Don’t Panic Yet: “Humanity’s Last Exam” Has Begun  SciTechDaily
  5. Researchers Launch “Humanity’s Last Exam” to Measure Frontier AI Capabilities  BABL AI

• Vast web of cold gas observed at the heart of the Milky Way - Reuters

  1. Vast web of cold gas observed at the heart of the Milky Way  Reuters
  2. Swirling beauty of the Milky Way galaxy’s heart is captured in a new telescope picture  AP News
  3. 'Rare and enigmatic' structures found at the Milky Way's center in largest-ever map of its kind  Live Science
  4. New image reveals secrets of Milky Way galaxy in stunning detail  The Guardian
  5. ALMA Creates Largest-Ever Image of the Milky Way’s Core  ALMA Observatory

• Column | We’re about to turn night into day. Is that a good idea? - The Washington Post

  1. Column | We’re about to turn night into day. Is that a good idea?  The Washington Post
  2. SpaceX Aims to Launch 1 Million AI Data Center Satellites  Sky & Telescope
  3. Sorry, SpaceX: It’s Getting Too Crowded Up There  The New York Times
  4. SpaceX's 1 million satellites could avoid environmental checks  New Scientist
  5. Satellites are erasing the shared night sky  Santa Fe New Mexican

• Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is About To Have A Potentially Course-Altering Encounter - IFLScience

  1. Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is About To Have A Potentially Course-Altering Encounter  IFLScience
  2. First glimpse of comet 3I/ATLAS from Juice science camera  European Space Agency
  3. Comet 3I/ATLAS Flaunts Bright Halo and Tail in New Image Taken by Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft  Discover Magazine
  4. Anti-Sun Jets in ESA’s JANUS Image of 3I/ATLAS from November 6, 2025  Avi Loeb – Medium
  5. Harvard scientist slams wild proposal to intercept 3I/ATLAS with spacecraft  New York Post

• NASA Rover Exploring Strange, Haunting Structures on Mars - Futurism

  1. NASA Rover Exploring Strange, Haunting Structures on Mars  Futurism
  2. NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sees Martian ‘Spiderwebs’ Up Close  NASA (.gov)
  3. Curiosity rover finds clues to Mars' watery past in rocky 'spiderwebs'  Space
  4. Science news this week: 'Spiderwebs' on Mars, tigers' return to Kazakhstan, and 2,000-year-old skull with permanently blackened teeth  Live Science
  5. NASA may have proved David Bowie lyric about Mars to be true with stunning find  Daily Express US

• Constant Space Launches Turning Earth’s Atmosphere Into a “Crematorium,” Scientists Say - Futurism

  1. Constant Space Launches Turning Earth’s Atmosphere Into a “Crematorium,” Scientists Say  Futurism
  2. Measurement of a lithium plume from the uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 rocket  Nature
  3. A SpaceX Falcon 9 Streaked Across the Sky—and Left 30 Kilograms of Destructive Lithium in Its Wake  Popular Mechanics
  4. Metal pollution from a rocket reentry detected for the first time  Science News
  5. SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium  BBC

• Lightning 'Whistler' Detected on Mars For The First Time, Scientists Report - ScienceAlert

  1. Lightning 'Whistler' Detected on Mars For The First Time, Scientists Report  ScienceAlert
  2. Lightning on Mars: NASA’s MAVEN Orbiter Reveals a Strange Phenomenon on the Red Planet  The Debrief
  3. Scientists report that a "whistling" lightning has been detected on Mars for the first time.  CPG Click Petróleo e Gás
  4. Is there lightning on Mars? New evidence suggests it’s there, just hard to see  Scientific American

• NASA is sending its first Black and first female astronauts to the moon - CNBC

  1. NASA is sending its first Black and first female astronauts to the moon  CNBC
  2. How a Brown alum is contributing to a mission to put humankind back on the moon  The Brown Daily Herald
  3. What does it take to be an Astronaut in 2026? The astronauts taking on the Artemis II programme  palatinate.org.uk
  4. A Brown University professor helped Apollo astronauts land on the moon. Now he’s helping Artemis return.  The Boston Globe
  5. Artemis II Crew Trains On T-38  Mirage News

• Earth’s First Mass Extinction Was Far Worse Than We Ever Knew - Indian Defence Review

  1. Earth’s First Mass Extinction Was Far Worse Than We Ever Knew  Indian Defence Review
  2. Exceptionally preserved 551-million-year-old site suggests Avalon biota lasted longer  Phys.org
  3. Earth’s first mass extinction may have been far worse than we thought  Earth.com
  4. Scientists explain the strangest fossils on Earth after studying 570-million-year-old organisms preserved in sandstone in Canada. Chemical analysis revealed a natural cement formed from clay, changing our understanding of the origin of complex life.  CPG Click Petróleo e Gás

• Humans Riding Bikes Are More Energy-Efficient Than Any Other Animal On The Planet - Jalopnik

  Humans Riding Bikes Are More Energy-Efficient Than Any Other Animal On The Planet  Jalopnik

• Dramatic changes observed in one of universe's biggest stars - KSL.com

  1. Dramatic changes observed in one of universe's biggest stars  KSL.com
  2. Astronomers just watched a star 1,540 times the size of our sun transform into a hypergiant. Will it go supernova?  Space
  3. The dramatic transition of the extreme red supergiant WOH G64 to a yellow hypergiant  Nature
  4. One of the biggest stars in the universe might be getting ready to explode  Phys.org
  5. Changes to One of The Largest Known Stars May Signal Destruction  ScienceAlert