Hannah Price

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Hannah covers news and science for Contoh – the stories behind the headlines, and why they matter.

Hubble May Have Spotted a Planet Born After Its Star Died

A 25-year-old Hubble puzzle points to a giant planet that may have formed from a dead star’s leftovers. Astronomers stress it is still only a candidate.

Crew-12 Is Home After 237 Days in Orbit. Here’s What the Mission Did and What Comes Next

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 splashed down off Los Angeles on Oct. 8 after 237 days in orbit. Here’s a look at the crew, the spacewalk records, the science and what happens next.

A 2-Million-Year-Old Skull Fragment Is the First Adult Homo Erectus From a Famous South African Cave

A skull fragment from South Africa’s Drimolen cave site is the first adult Homo erectus found there, dated to about 2 million years ago — roughly 200,000 years older than adult fossils from Georgia.

October’s Night Sky: Orionid Meteors, a Bright Saturn and the Full Moon

Halley’s Comet leftovers light up the Orionid meteor shower on October 21–22, while Saturn shines all night. Here’s what to look for and when.

Chemistry Nobel Goes to Two Scientists Who Showed How Molecules Can Amplify Their Own “Handedness”

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries about how mirror-image molecules form, with clues to why life is one-handed.

Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to the Scientists Who Taught Brain Cells to Respond to Light

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for optogenetics, a technique that uses light to switch specific nerve cells on and off.

The Meteor That Hit Oklahoma Was About 100 Million Years Younger Than Scientists Thought

New dating of tiny zircon crystals puts the buried Ames impact crater at about 370 million years old — close in time to one of Earth’s big mass extinctions.

NASA Picks a Mission to Find Out Whether a Hole on the Moon Leads to a Giant Cave

A new NASA-selected project will use radar, seismic sensors and a gravity meter to see whether the Marius Hills Pit opens into an underground lava tube — a possible shelter for future astronauts.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Passes a Key Steadiness Test and Takes Its First Coronagraph Look

A month after launch, NASA’s Roman Space Telescope proved it can hold extraordinarily still, and its starlight-blocking Coronagraph Instrument saw stars for the first time.

This “Armor” Fabric More Than Tripled Strawberry Yields

A knitted textile first developed for military uniforms kept insects off strawberry plants – and up to 3.56 times more fruit grew underneath it.

Meet the Tilcayo: The First New Wild Cat Species Named in Over a Century

DNA analysis has revealed a tiny, previously unrecognized wild cat in Bolivia’s cloud forests. Scientists named it Leopardus tilcayo.

Astronomers Find the Fastest Star Yet Circling Our Galaxy’s Black Hole

A faint star called S301 whips around Sagittarius A* every 8.7 years at about 8% of the speed of light. Astronomers hope it will finally reveal how fast the black hole spins.
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