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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
What appeared to be a lone survivor from the abyss turns out to be one of the most widespread creatures on the planet, only no one had noticed it

What appeared to be a lone survivor from the abyss turns out to be one of the most widespread creatures on the planet, only no one had noticed it

January 10, 2026 at 5:37 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
Front view of a fragmented ancient human skull fossil with visible cracks and missing sections against a black background.

A man was struck by a stone projectile 12,000 years ago, survived for months, and his skeleton has just told the whole story

January 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Map showing marine heatwaves and ocean surface temperature anomalies highlighted in red and orange tones.

A NASA satellite has made visible something microscopic that keeps one of the most endangered whales on the planet alive

January 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
A “supergiant” gold deposit has been found in China that could contain 1,000 metric tons of gold

A “supergiant” gold deposit has been found in China that could contain 1,000 metric tons of gold

January 9, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Engraved vault plate on NASA’s Europa Clipper, a message in a bottle carrying names, poetry, and water words to Europa.

Europa Clipper carries Earth’s message in a bottle to an alien ocean

January 9, 2026 at 7:20 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
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