Juice to fly past Earth for a boost towards Jupiter
The 28 September gravity assist will redirect the spacecraft and increase its speed by about 3.5 kilometres per second.
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MIT robot assembles and aligns a laser cavity in half an hour
The system positions optical components and restores alignment after they are displaced.
Astronomers confirm a planet less than a million years old
Elias 2-24 b is still growing in a disc of gas and dust about 450 light-years from Earth.
Chinese AI system selects 38 promising materials in two days
MatBrain screened 30,000 candidate crystal structures using one model to plan research and another to operate scientific tools.
Solar modules tested 10 metres below the South China Sea
A two-hour sea trial generated 324 milliwatt-hours. Separate laboratory tests examined the cells’ durability.
NASA and IBM release an AI model for studying the Moon
The open model analyses lunar images, recognises craters and estimates conditions that could preserve polar ice.
Ten rural schools in Kazakhstan begin testing an AI education platform
The pilot has launched in small schools in the Pavlodar and Kyzylorda regions. It is a limited trial, not a nationwide rollout.
Altaiyr Adilbay presented FloodSense in the Stockholm water prize final
The Kazakhstani project joined the 2026 international final; Canada's Moroti Adegboyega received the main prize.
Chinese scientists build a manta-ray robot powered by frog muscle
The miniature biohybrid is controlled by near-infrared light and needs no wires.
Curiosity finds a vast field of honeycomb-like fractures on Mars
The NASA rover photographed polygonal terrain on the lower slopes of Mount Sharp at a scale the mission had never encountered before.
EU launches tender for up to seven AI gigafactories
Up to €10 billion in EU and national funding will support the initiative, which is expected to unlock at least €20 billion in private investment.
NASA prepares the Roman telescope for a late-August launch
The new space observatory will see a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble’s.