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Illustration of ESA ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover drilling into Mars while a NASA rocket launches in the background.

The European mission aiming to find life on Mars now has a date and a key partner: NASA will provide a rocket and nuclear “heaters,” with launch planned for 2028 and landing in 2030

January 12, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Artist’s impression of JAXA’s Akatsuki spacecraft orbiting Venus with the Sun in the background

Japan bids farewell to Akatsuki, the probe that spent eight years monitoring Venus and changed what we knew about its hellish atmosphere

January 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Skull with disturbing message and spikes

TikTok is turning real human skulls into trendy “decor” items, and experts warn that there may be a much darker story behind them

January 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Goodbye to our universe as we know it: a new calculation predicts when it will end

Goodbye to our universe as we know it: a new calculation predicts when it will end

January 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Where today there is only sand and wind, archaeologists have found evidence of a landscape filled with water, food, and human settlements

Where today there is only sand and wind, archaeologists have found evidence of a landscape filled with water, food, and human settlements

January 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Scientists managed to trace the tree of life back to a single common ancestor that lived more than two billion years ago

Scientists managed to trace the tree of life back to a single common ancestor that lived more than two billion years ago

January 11, 2026 at 7:57 AM
A German physicist looked at the battle for 2035 and revealed a fact that changes everything: an electric car uses up to six times more energy than a gasoline car

A German physicist looked at the battle for 2035 and revealed a fact that changes everything: an electric car uses up to six times more energy than a gasoline car

January 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
A 100-million-year-old fossil pearl found in outback Queensland is rewriting a small piece of Australia’s ancient sea story

A 100-million-year-old fossil pearl found in outback Queensland is rewriting a small piece of Australia’s ancient sea story

January 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869

The man-sized gold nugget that made two miners rich in 1869

January 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM
A plumber just months away from retirement lifted a section of floor in Vienna and uncovered a rusty box containing 30 kilograms of gold coins in perfect condition

A plumber just months away from retirement lifted a section of floor in Vienna and uncovered a rusty box containing 30 kilograms of gold coins in perfect condition

January 10, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Artist view of TOI-715 b, a super-Earth 137 light-years away in the habitable zone, orbiting a cool red dwarf star.

NASA detects a “super-Earth” just 137 light-years away in the habitable zone: the most intriguing detail is that its year lasts only 19 days

January 9, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Earth briefly borrowed a second moon that may be made of lunar rock

Earth briefly borrowed a second moon that may be made of lunar rock

January 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are.

If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are

January 8, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Aerial view of Monte Sierpe “Band of Holes” 5,200 pits in ordered rows on a ridge above Peru’s Pisco Valley.

More than 5,200 holes lined up as if they were numbers hid more than just an archaeological mystery

January 8, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Melting clock symbolizing the “time mirror” experiment that reverses part of an electromagnetic wave backward in time.

After 60 years of theory, a team achieves a real “time mirror”, and what happens to the wave seems to come from the future

January 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Cratered Moon surface in shadow, representing the Moon receding from Earth and the slow lengthening of our days.

They detected that the Moon is moving away about 3.8 centimeters per year, and the disturbing detail is that this “step backward” is stretching our days without anyone noticing

January 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Mechanic holding gold bars discovered inside an old Iraqi Army Type 69 tank purchased online

A mechanic bought an old Iraqi tank online, and when he reached inside it, he found $2.4 million worth of gold bars hidden inside

January 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
An hourglass floating in front of Earth, symbolizing how climate change is affecting the planet’s rotation and global timekeeping.

Climate change is now tugging on the world’s clocks

January 6, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Illustration of a Martian crater lake, representing evidence of ancient liquid water on Mars from wave ripple patterns.

Clear and definitive evidence of liquid water, not just ancient ice, found on Mars

January 5, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Grease-stained hand holding a spark plug in front of a car engine bay.

They gave her a quote for replacing the spark plugs, she bought her own to “save money,” and two weeks later the car started telling a different story

January 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM