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Astronomers have made a surprising discovery in the Kuiper Belt, a frigid region of space beyond Neptune. A small icy rock named 2002 XV93 has been found to have its own atmosphere. This is unexpected because the object is only about 310 miles (500 km) wide. That is about seven times smaller than our Moon. Usually, an object that small does not have enough gravity to hold onto gases. They simply drift away into space....

An autonomous robot made history on April 19, 2026, when it beat 12,000 human runners and 300 fellow robots in a half marathon at China’s Beijing E-Town. The aptly-named Lightning pulled away early and never slowed down. It finished the 13.1-mile (21.1 km) race in just 50 minutes and 26 seconds. The top human finisher, Zhao Haijie, crossed the line about 10 minutes later....

NASA scientists have confirmed that a spacecraft can help change the path of an asteroid in space. This finding suggests that a dangerous asteroid headed toward Earth could be pushed off course if needed....

NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft, carrying four astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near Southern California at 5:07 pm on April 10, 2026. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen completed the 690,000-mile (1.1 million km) journey around the Moon in just over nine days. Their return marks the first time humans have made this trip since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972....