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A swirling black hole in deep space, symbolizing a “loud” alien technosignature screaming across the cosmos.

Forget flying saucers and friendly messages: the first alien civilization we detect could be “screaming” across the cosmos

January 3, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Small dark meteorite half buried in Antarctic ice, a carbonaceous chondrite studied for water and metal resources for space exploration.

A small dark meteorite trapped in Antarctic ice could be pointing to how the future will be built and supplied in space

January 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Aging star swelling and pulling nearby planets inward, illustrating how old suns can destroy close-orbiting worlds.

Astronomers observe aging stars that are destroying their own planets, and it could happen to Earth

January 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Artist illustration of a newborn gas giant forming inside a protoplanetary disk around a young Sun-like star.

They were searching for young stars for just a few minutes and ended up finding a newborn planet hidden in a spectacular disk

January 1, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Sunrise over Earth from space, symbolizing research that Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere has an expiration date tied to the Sun.

Earth’s oxygen has an expiration date, and it is written on the Sun

January 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Cracks along the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, with inset map showing the “end-of-the-world” glacier area.

Cracks in Antarctica’s “end-of-the-world glacier” are a sign that the safety net is failing

January 1, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Earth from space with blue oceans and cloud bands, illustrating research that Earth’s day lasted about 19 hours for a billion years.

For a billion years, Earth’s day lasted only 19 hours

December 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ROV image of the Arctic seabed at 3,640m, showing a hydrate mound and methane seep “living oasis” ecosystem.

A robot descended to a depth of almost four kilometers below the Arctic and found a living oasis that changes what we knew about the seabed

December 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Scrubland at dusk in Andhra Pradesh where Jerdon’s courser was recorded, with inset of the critically endangered bird.

For more than ten years, no one had heard it, until two recordings at night confirmed that one of the rarest birds on the planet is still alive

December 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Pale translucent shrimp-like crustacean held in hands, spotlighting the “alien” look of newly found wildlife

Scientists discover previously unseen animals and plants that appear to come from another planet

December 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Older woman with a concerned expression, highlighting slower speaking pace as an early cognitive decline sign

This speaking pace is a clear sign that a person may be entering cognitive decline

December 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Cracked Martian rock revealing bright yellow crystals in Curiosity rover track at Gediz Vallis, Mount Sharp.

Curiosity drove over a rock on Mars, accidentally breaking it, and what appeared inside left scientists with more questions than answers

December 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Side-by-side Webb vs Hubble near-infrared view of a Cepheid field, showing Webb resolving crowding that can blur distance measurements.

James Webb and Hubble confirm a stubborn cosmic mismatch

December 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Mars south pole “Inca City” with dark seasonal CO₂-jet spots (“spiders”) appearing on polar terrain, ESA Mars Express view.

It looked like just another photo of Mars’s south pole until hundreds of black spots started to appear, and someone at the ESA said, “This shouldn’t look like this”

December 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Supermassive black hole surrounded by a glowing accretion disk as space-time twists under extreme gravity

A supermassive black hole would have revealed its spin by “twisting” space-time and causing a disk and jet to wobble at the same time

December 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Artist’s impression of a blue-whale-size sea monster (giant ichthyosaur) stranded on a beach.

An 11-year-old girl saw enormous bones on a beach and, without knowing it, had just triggered the search for a “sea monster” the size of a blue whale

December 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Spinning black hole with glowing accretion disk, illustrating Einstein’s frame-dragging spacetime wobble

A “heartbeat” detected every 20 days in a shattered star, and the clue points to something Einstein predicted more than a century ago

December 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Illustration of two prehistoric sharks from 325 million years ago, similar to fossils discovered in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

They entered the longest cave in the world expecting rock and darkness and ended up finding two creatures from 325 million years ago

December 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Total solar eclipse above Earth’s horizon, illustrating the 2027 eclipse expected to be one of the longest of the century.

The longest solar eclipse of the century is coming in 2027: where and how to see it

December 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Cluster of honey bees packed tightly together on a hive frame to survive winter cold.

When winter arrives, bees and wasps do not disappear, but instead do something much more disturbing, and now we have discovered what that is

December 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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