Weekly recaps

It was a good week for space science, as a pair of researchers at Applied Physics developed a potential model for a real physical warp drive—their model would allow a spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light, ...

It was a good week for biological science as a team of researchers from Indonesia and Singapore spotted a bird believed to be extinct for 170 years. The black-browed babbler was captured on film on the island of Borneo. Also, ...

This week, NASA made worldwide headlines as its rover Perseverance landed on Mars to look for signs of ancient life—the ninth spacecraft since the 1970s to land successfully on the red planet. Highlighting the magnitude ...

It was a good week for physics as a team at Heidelberg University's Physics Institute found a way to directly observe the Pauli principle in action. Also, a group led by a team at Delft University of Technology devised a ...

It was a good week for space science as a team from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery and CSIRO, spotted bizarre, never-before-seen activity from one of the strongest magnets in the universe—a ...

It was a good week for space science as a team of researchers studying data from the ESO's VLT and other telescopes discovered a puzzling six-exoplanet system with rhythmic movement that has challenged theories of how planets ...

It was a good week for space science as a trio of researchers from Queen Mary University of London, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the University of Amsterdam found that black holes could reach "stupendously large" sizes. ...

It was a good week for space science as an international team of researchers found that a presumed supernova was actually something much rarer—periodic flaring from a galaxy where a supermassive black hole was emitting ...

It was a big week for Earth science as a team of researchers with members from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Colorado State University found that a third of the rivers in the U.S. changed from blue to ...

It was a good week for space science as an international team of researchers working on the eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey, discovered a new supercluster—the newly found structure consisted of eight galaxy clusters ...

It was a good week for space research as Jupiter and Saturn made worldwide headlines as they engaged in a cheek-to-cheek rare celestial dance—scientists and laypeople alike watched as the two planets appeared closer together ...

It was a good week for space science as a team at Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency announced that they had found ample soil and gas samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu—a capsule dropped from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft ...