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Satellite Captures Persistent Lava Lake at Remote Antarctic Volcano
Satellite imagery acquired in August 2026 revealed a persistent lava lake in the summit crater of Mount Michael, a stratovolcano on Saunders Island in the South Sandwich Islands.
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NASA Aircraft Chases Total Solar Eclipse From High Altitude
A NASA high-altitude research aircraft flew into the path of a total solar eclipse off Iceland to observe the Moon's shadow from 50,000 feet.
Deep learning reveals continuous structures at Earth's core-mantle boundary
Researchers used deep learning to analyze seismic wave data and identify six continuous bands of irregularities at the boundary between Earth's core and mantle.
Molecular tweaks shown to control light-emission behavior in solids
Japanese researchers used computational analysis to identify how small structural changes in molecules determine their light-emission behavior in solid form, moving luminescent material design away from empirical experimentation.
German company reaches orbit with Spectrum launcher
German company Isar Aerospace successfully launched its Spectrum rocket to orbit from Andøya Spaceport in Norway, marking the first orbital flight by a European company using its own launch vehicle.
