The Mars Sample Return mission previously envisioned a team of robots retrieving samples collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover.

Citing a budget shortfall, the agency is now soliciting ideas for faster and cheaper approaches. scim.ag/6BP

Nasa: 'New plan needed to return rocks from Mars' bbc.in/3UjdOYY

Shedding light on why some massive stars have magnetic fields even though these stars’ interiors layers don’t undergo convection, researchers report in Science observational evidence that magnetic fields form in some such stars through stellar mergers. scim.ag/6zx

The Science Magazine Editor-in-Chief @HHoldenThorp discusses the journal's business model, and how it differs from those of the main competitors. Please consider these issues when deciding where to submit your work.
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A 3000-kilogram digital camera—the largest ever built and roughly the size of a small car—will create a movie of the universe, imaging the whole southern night sky in unprecedented detail every 3 days.

Learn more in this week’s News at a glance. ⬇️ scim.ag/6tO

Facing a looming funding cutoff, astronomers are urging the Mexican government to renew its support for the nation’s most prominent astronomical facility, the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano. scim.ag/6tG

The first results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument match theorists’ expectations for how the cosmos has evolved over the past 11 billion years. #DESI scim.ag/6tC

Texas officials have issued a “health alert” about the first confirmed case of a human infection with a bird influenza virus that has found its ways into dairy cows. scim.ag/6tl

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Bright galactic flickers reveal a pair of dancing black holes, suggests a new astronomical study in Science Advances. scim.ag/6rH

The supermassive black holes at the centers of many galaxies generate powerful jets, blasting particles thousands of light-years into space.

This new image of the Milky Way’s black hole suggests it may have one, too, but perhaps of a more modest nature. scim.ag/6nm

England & Belgium are in a tight-fought contest over who can have the worst possible kit. Both are truly terrible 🤦‍♂️ #ENGBEL

Bases, experiments, mining: the race to protect the surface of the moon theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

It has been over a decade since I used IRAF regularly, but I still instinctively type 'splot' when I mean 'plot'

Alan Rubin reviews 'The Asteroid Hunter' by Dante Lauretta, PI of the NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. It's a personal account of how the spacecraft was conceived, flown, collected samples from the #asteroid #Bennu , and brought them back to Earth.
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New findings show “that the Moon may be more seismically and tectonically active today than we had thought.” scim.ag/6iI

A new serpentine robot called the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor has the potential to navigate the hostile terrain found on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. scim.ag/6i4 Science Robotics NASA JPL

Quantum memories and networks could help combine light from widely separated telescopes to acquire sharper vision collectively. scim.ag/6hL

The end is nigh for NASA’s nearly 25-year-old Chandra X-ray Observatory. scim.ag/6gO

'[I]f institutions continue to overlook the needs of graduate students, the whole enterprise is in serious danger,' writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial reflecting on the harms of #ResearchMisconduct on students. scim.ag/6eW