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Color image of Mars's moon Phobos, the target of Japan's MMX mission, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Japan’s MMX mission is set to launch October 19 to bring back the first sample from Mars’s moon Phobos, and a 55-pound rover named Idefix will touch down on the moon first

By Adrian Villellas
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October 19, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Rangers supported by Angelina Jolie's foundation planting a tree seedling in the Samlaut forest in northwestern Cambodia

Angelina Jolie’s foundation has spent 20 years in a 150,720-acre Cambodian forest where elephants and pangolins still roam, and its rangers pulled about 4.8 miles of wire snares out in 2025

By Adrian Villellas
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October 19, 2026 at 6:31 AM
The calving front of Thwaites Glacier's ice shelf in West Antarctica above dark open water, seen from a NASA aircraft

In West Antarctica, a Thwaites Glacier model checked against 27 years of satellite records projects it could add up to about 1.2 inches to global seas by 2100, and that is roughly double earlier estimates

By Adrian Villellas
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October 18, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Bluebanded snapper swimming over submerged peat reefs in Mozambique's Bazaruto Archipelago

Off Mozambique, divers surveyed three peat reefs made of forest peat up to 5,000 years old, and each held 26 to 36 kinds of small fish with no living coral

By ECONEWS
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October 18, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Artist's rendition of White Sands National Park during the last ice age, with mammoths, camels and shallow pools on the shrinking Lake Otero playa in New Mexico

In New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, footprints left beside mammoths date to 23,500 to 21,700 years ago, and pollen shows those walkers saw pine forest turn to pinyon and juniper within about 100 years

By Adrian Villellas
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October 18, 2026 at 7:14 PM
European hedgehog in garden grass, the animal whose hedgehog poop is often mistaken for rat droppings

In gardens across Britain and Europe, a dark dropping up to 2 inches long can be hedgehog poop rather than a rat sign, and the Mammal Society says shiny insect fragments give it away

By ECONEWS
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October 18, 2026 at 6:31 PM
UK's first rice crop growing in a flooded mini paddy on rewetted peat near Ely, Cambridgeshire

Scientists grew the UK’s first rice crop in four flooded paddies near Ely during the record-breaking summer of 2025, and the trial could help farmers keep the Fens’ peat soils wet

By Adrian Villellas
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October 18, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Sentinel-6 sea surface height map of the eastern Pacific on October 3, 2026, with a dark red band of high water along the equator, as NOAA weighs odds of the strongest El Niño since 1950

In the eastern Pacific, NASA satellites show seas up to 1.3 feet higher as NOAA gives the strongest El Niño since 1950 an 83 percent chance for October to December, and equatorial waters turn bluer

By ECONEWS
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October 18, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Ingmar Werneburg and Benedikt Kästle hold open a collection drawer with the new giant isopod species Bathynomus tuebingoborikensis among fossil crabs

A giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat in a University of Tübingen collection under the wrong name for decades, and a closer look shows the 12.7-inch crustacean is a new species

By Adrian Villellas
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October 18, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Yellow and red ochre painting of a turtle with a patterned body on a rock shelter wall at Ubirr, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory

Awunbarna in western Arnhem Land holds 20 of the 52 known recent Rainbow Serpent rock paintings, one 20 feet long, and archaeologists argue artists painted them big as colonization upended their world

By Adrian Villellas
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October 18, 2026 at 12:31 PM
KREPE-3 capsule with experimental heat shields floating inside the Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft

University of Kentucky students designed 12 small capsules to test experimental heat shields, including a 3D-printed one, and they left the ISS inside a cargo ship full of trash set to burn up on reentry

By ECONEWS
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October 18, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Fat Bear Week 2026 contender Chunk, bear 32, standing in Brooks River below Brooks Falls with his broken lower jaw visible

Chunk, the 2025 champion with a permanently broken jaw, lost his first match by 118,731 votes to 46,053, and Fat Bear Week 2026 went to Backpack, a 20-year-old bear whose survival park staff once doubted

By ECONEWS
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October 18, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Kelvin Doe at a workbench with David Moinina Sengeh at MIT in 2012

Kelvin Doe built a battery, a generator and an FM radio station from Freetown’s trash and reached MIT at 15, and 14 years later he is building a free youth makerspace in Toronto

By Adrian Villellas
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October 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Sea turtle hatchling crawling into the surf on Blackbeard Island, one of the Georgia beaches where sea turtle nests are counted every summer

Georgia beaches logged a record 4,292 sea turtle nests in 2026, up from 358 in 2004, and hundreds of volunteers patrolled the coast from Cumberland Island to Tybee to protect them

By Adrian Villellas
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October 18, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Fossil skull of the hell chicken dinosaur Infernogallus jamesi, specimen ROM VP 65050, seen from the left side

A toothless hell chicken dinosaur from Montana’s Hell Creek Formation weighed about 26 pounds, and scientists think its jaw slid back and forth to mash soft fruit like a parrot’s

By Adrian Villellas
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October 18, 2026 at 7:31 AM
5,000-year-old grave near Wrocław, Poland, with a green serpentinite battle ax under the man's right elbow and teeth from one of the two extra skulls above it

Archaeologists packing up a Roman-era cemetery near Wrocław, Poland, found a 5,000-year-old grave with a necklace of 42 drilled teeth and two extra skulls, and researchers want to know whether the heads were cut off

By ECONEWS
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October 18, 2026 at 6:31 AM
View from the Ice Age base camp of Shég' Xdaltth'í' over the Tanana Flats in interior Alaska

On a ridge above Alaska’s Tanana River, archaeologists recovered more than 80,000 objects from a 13,800-year-old Ice Age base camp, and its diamond-shaped stone points match ones found in Siberia

By ECONEWS
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October 17, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Oblique view of the new Moon crater McGetchin with bright debris rays, taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a new Moon crater 728 feet wide that formed in spring 2024, a once-in-132-year event, and debris from that impact disturbed ground more than 62 miles away

By Adrian Villellas
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October 17, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Electric car plugged into a Rheinmetall curb charger set into the curb beside a paved sidewalk

Cologne tested a curb charger that hides a 22-kilowatt EV socket inside a standard-size curbstone, logging 2,829 charging sessions with over 99 percent availability, and installation still cost about the same as a charging post

By ECONEWS
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October 17, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Bow view of Allseas' Pioneering Spirit at sea, showing its two black hulls, the slot between them and a red crane rising behind the accommodation block

The world’s largest construction vessel had to take on ballast water and sink lower to fit under the 213-foot clearance of Denmark’s Great Belt Bridge on its way to a Baltic wind farm

By Adrian Villellas
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October 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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