Jan 12, 2026 by News Staff

Physicists from the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen and the Transylvanian University of Brașov have unveiled...

Jan 12, 2026 by News Staff

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured a breathtaking shock wave around the white dwarf star 1RXS J052832.5+283824 (RXJ0528+2838...

Jan 12, 2026 by News Staff

A long-standing mystery in vertebrate evolution — why most major fish lineages appear suddenly in the fossil record tens of millions of years after...

Jan 12, 2026 by News Staff

New multi-year observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and Roque de...

Jan 9, 2026 by News Staff

Astronomers have detected an extraordinary asteroid, named 2025 MN45, in early data from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera — the...

Jan 8, 2026 by News Staff

New observations of the young cluster SPT2349-56 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed unexpectedly scorching intracluster...

Jan 8, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists have identified traces of two toxic plant alkaloids — buphandrine and epibuphanisine — on artifacts from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter...

Jan 7, 2026 by News Staff

A new analysis of stress, tides and interior forces suggests Jupiter’s icy moon Europa lacks the active seafloor faulting needed for robust hydrothermal...

Jan 7, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

The hominin fossils discovered in the Grotte à Hominidés at Thomas Quarry I in Casablanca, Morocco, are providing new evidence about the deep origins...

Jan 7, 2026 by News Staff

Scientists at the University of Waterloo and Kyushu University have developed the first method to create redundant, encrypted copies of qubits —...

Jan 6, 2026 by Sergio Prostak

The Voynich manuscript — often called the most mysterious manuscript in the world — has eluded attempts to understand its origin, nature, and...

Jan 6, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of starless, hydrogen-rich objects dominated by dark matter. Named Reionization-Limited...

Jan 5, 2026 by Natali Anderson

Deep in the seasonally flooded savannas of Bolivia, a small, olive-green songbird has been quietly eluding science. Now, after six decades of confusion...

Jan 5, 2026 by Sergio Prostak

For more than two decades, Sahelanthropus tchadensis — a very early (6.7 to 7.2 million years old) hominin species discovered in Chad in 2001 —...

Jan 5, 2026 by News Staff

A population of free-floating planets is known from gravitational microlensing surveys. None have a directly measured mass, owing to a degeneracy with...

Jan 5, 2026 by News Staff

Compared to other primates, humans have remarkably large brains relative to their body sizes. The resultant high demands for glucose may have been supported...

Jan 5, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers have released the new results from the CAFFEINE survey, shedding new light on a long-standing mystery: what controls the efficiency of star...

Jan 2, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A research team led by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology scientists has generated the high-quality genome assembly of a Denisovan using...

Jan 2, 2026 by News Staff

Astronomers discovered an enormous galaxy cluster called RM J130558.9+263048.4 on December 31, 2020; the date, combined with the bubble-like appearance...