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German officials meet under NATO and German flags as MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones and maritime patrol aircraft fly over warships at sea.

Germany is buying U.S.-made maritime drones for $1.5 billion, exposing cracks in Europe’s military sovereignty

January 14, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Composite image showing a rocket payload fairing in a cleanroom and ISRO’s SpaDeX Target and Chaser satellites prepared side by side.

Two satellites the size of a refrigerator sought each other out in orbit, docked with pinpoint accuracy, and placed India in a very exclusive space club

January 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Artist rendering of Japan’s H3 rocket in flight above Earth, with the upper stage firing as it climbs toward orbit.

Japan looked to the skies once again with its H3 rocket until the engine malfunctioned and minutes later the plan began to unravel

January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
They were told to take down their Christmas lights at a base in Florida, and the reason was not the Air Force. It was the lease contract they had signed

They were told to take down their Christmas lights at a base in Florida, and the reason was not the Air Force. It was the lease contract they had signed

January 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Composite graphic of ESA’s Flight Ticket Initiative showing a Vega C launch, CubeSats in orbit, Earth at night, and EU stars.

Europe wants to test its technology directly in space and has already reserved the first “tickets” on new rockets

January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Static test firing of the P160C solid rocket motor at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, sending a huge smoke plume skyward.

Europe has just fired up a more powerful engine in French Guiana, and the change could alter who calls the shots in space launches

January 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Infinity Galaxy seen by JWST, with a marker pointing to the central region where astronomers detect a powerful source that may be a newborn black hole

Webb looked at old files and found something so strange that it could be showing the birth of a giant black hole in real time

January 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
People stand amid collapsed buildings in Haiti, with an InSAR satellite deformation map overlay showing post-quake ground movement and the epicenter

After the major earthquake in Haiti, something continued to move underground for weeks, and scientists have just discovered what it was

January 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
MeerKAT radio telescope dishes in South Africa under a star-filled sky, used to detect hydrogen in distant galaxies

They pointed a radio telescope for less than three hours and, without even looking for them, ended up finding 49 new galaxies hidden in the data

January 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Polar bear standing on a dead sperm whale carcass amid broken Arctic sea ice near Svalbard.

The impossible photo from the Arctic: a polar bear is captured “riding” on a huge whale in the middle of an ice labyrinth, and no one knows how that body got there yet

January 13, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Graphic shows FDA recall alert for Spring & Mulberry Mint Leaf date-sweetened chocolate bar over possible salmonella.

The FDA has issued a nationwide alert: It is warning of the immediate recall of a candy bar that may have been sitting in your pantry since 2025

January 12, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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
JWST view of the MACS0416 galaxy cluster field with the distant galaxy Y1 circled, plus a zoomed-in close-up

They looked at a galaxy almost at the edge of time and discovered a star factory so hot that it challenges what we believed about the early universe

January 12, 2026 at 2:17 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
CHIME hyperspectral satellite instrument test unit wrapped in gold thermal insulation inside a cleanroom for Copernicus missions.

Europe has just secured a new generation of satellites that will monitor emissions, ice, oceans, and crops like never before

January 12, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Illustration of the Bad Dürrenberg Mesolithic woman wearing an antler-and-tooth headdress decorated with feathers.

Archaeologists unearth a woman buried with a baby in a 9,000-year-old tomb

January 12, 2026 at 9:02 AM
They found more than 50 mummies stored carefully but still at risk, and from that problem arose an idea as simple as it was revolutionary

They found more than 50 mummies stored carefully but still at risk, and from that problem arose an idea as simple as it was revolutionary

January 12, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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
A doctor was reviewing a routine colonoscopy, saw some small “pockets” on the wall of the colon, and the explanation behind this lies in something that almost all of us eat every day

A doctor was reviewing a routine colonoscopy, saw some small “pockets” on the wall of the colon, and the explanation behind this lies in something that almost all of us eat every day

January 11, 2026 at 3:26 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
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