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- Science & Discovery News Today — November 12, 2026
- Europe's Hera spacecraft begins close inspections of an asteroid rammed by NASA in a 2022 test
- Gravitational waves hint at black holes born from failed supernovae
- Pakistani astronaut to board Shenzhou 24 and become the first foreigner on China's space station
- Researchers use seasonal satellite imagery to map shrub encroachment in Inner Mongolia grasslands
- NASA's Hubble and Webb discover ancient worlds that remember their past
- Autonomous rendezvous system overcomes simulated spacecraft failures in lab tests
- James Webb discovers a scorching lava planet with a “giant sunscreen”
- Scientists uncover the molecular pillars that shape our cells' powerpacks
- Webb captures stars in the early stages of life in a nearby stellar nursery
- Hot plasma may explain how rapidly feeding black holes launch powerful jets
- Great news from Saturn's moon Enceladus in the search for life in space
- Engineers just designed a better 'shock absorber' for spacecraft
- Bennu asteroid samples point to a surprising origin involving Jupiter
- Astronomers detect ancient hydrogen signal that could help map the Universe
- Cosmic radiation at flight altitudes rises when the sun is less active
- Hubble and Webb find that far-out solar system objects 'remember' the past
- How studying astronauts could help tackle aging on Earth
- Physicists test the weak equivalence principle in an orbiting space station
- Many space missions are searching for life beyond Earth, but are we prepared for the fallout if they succeed?
- Tool helps U.S. Space Force predict dangerous wind events
- This strange “spacetime crystal” can suddenly become a black hole
- NASA's Roman telescope set to launch on cosmic mapping mission
- Will new telescope Roman help reveal long-kept secrets of the universe? Q&A with an expert
- Discovery reveals rapid pathways to complex aromatic molecules in space
- NASA just used satellites and debris to navigate without GPS
- European city climate plans underuse green spaces despite adaptation benefits, finds study
- Woodlands and other natural spaces could help cities cope with extreme heat
- NASA is about to launch a powerful new eye on the universe
- Scientists 'see' nanoscale forces, providing evidence of electric fields at the air‑water interface
- Hubble offers cosmic sampler of targets for Roman
- NASA’s Parker Solar Probe discovers a hidden pattern in the Sun’s chaotic magnetic fields
- Astronomers discover hidden alien planet in James Webb images
- A mysterious 93-billion-mile cosmic structure may be the wreckage of colliding worlds
- NASA’s CHAPEA Mars crew finally emerges after more than a year in isolation
- NASA reveals bold new plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2028
- A hidden limit of space and time could unlock electronics 100,000 times faster
- Don't miss: Meteor showers, fireballs, and a supermoon light up November's night sky
- NASA’s Swift telescope falls to Earth after nearly 22 years in space
- NASA is racing against time to save the Hubble Space Telescope
- NASA smashed into an asteroid. Now Hera is closing in to see what happened