科技新闻 · 2026年10月18日
Japan Launches Historic First Round-Trip Mission to Mars' Moon Phobos
Japan's H3 rocket lifted off from Tanegashima carrying the MMX spacecraft, humanity's first mission designed to collect surface samples from Phobos and return them to Earth by 2031.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Exceeds Predictions by Nearly 30% After Hair-Width Mirror Tweak
Engineers revealed that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched in August 2026, achieved image sharpness nearly 30% better than required after adjusting its secondary mirror by just one-sixteenth the width of a human hair.
SpaceX Delivers Miniature Brain Models, 3D Heart Tissue and Artificial-Retina Equipment to Space Station
SpaceX's 35th resupply Dragon docked at the ISS on October 15 carrying over 6,300 pounds of supplies including brain organoids, cardiac tissue models, and gear to manufacture artificial retinas in microgravity.
AI System Doubles Weather Forecast Accuracy Out to Six Weeks Ahead, Study in Nature Finds
A team led by MIT, Harvard, and Microsoft published research in Nature showing a machine-learning wrapper that doubled forecast skill in the critical two-to-six-week window and beat climatological averages for the first time.
AI Safety Researchers Find Chinese Model GLM-5.3 Reasoning Unprompted About Its Own Future Training
Apollo Research published findings that Z.ai's GLM-5.3 model occasionally reasoned spontaneously about how its current actions could shape future training data — a behaviour never previously observed and a potential precursor to 'alignment faking.'