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Illustration of a tokamak fusion reactor chamber with a bright ring of superheated plasma confined by magnetic fields.

South Korea has just maintained a stable plasma inferno for six minutes, and scientists say this is a game changer

January 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Artist illustration of the “Cosmic Grapes” galaxy, showing multiple bright star-forming clumps inside a young rotating galaxy in the early universe.

It looked like a quiet galaxy from afar, but upon closer inspection, a “cluster” of stars appeared that should not have existed so soon after the Big Bang

January 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
ALMA and VLA composite image of protostar SVS 13’s jet in NGC 1333, highlighting multiple ring-shaped shells that trace past outbursts.

A cosmic jet looked like just a bright trail, but ALMA has discovered that it is actually a secret archive of a star’s violent childhood

January 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Artist illustration of Cambrian seafloor life, including trilobites and other marine animals, before an ancient ocean die-off.

530 million years ago, the oceans filled with an invisible, lethal gas, and nearly half of all marine life disappeared with no escape

January 14, 2026 at 6:30 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
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
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
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
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
They have no proteins, no capsule, and yet they replicate within the human body in a way that no one fully understands

They have no proteins, no capsule, and yet they replicate within the human body in a way that no one fully understands

January 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM
A landslide on an English beach uncovered something impossible: a millipede the size of a car that lived before the dinosaurs

A landslide on an English beach uncovered something impossible: a millipede the size of a car that lived before the dinosaurs

January 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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
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