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Japan resumed supplying the Space Station after five years, and the launch of its new spacecraft marks a quiet shift in its space program

Japan resumed supplying the Space Station after five years, and the launch of its new spacecraft marks a quiet shift in its space program

January 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Earth briefly borrowed a second moon that may be made of lunar rock

Earth briefly borrowed a second moon that may be made of lunar rock

January 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are.

If you thought “something was entering the atmosphere,” you weren’t the only one. What people saw in Alabama and Georgia lines up with the Taurid meteors that show up in the fall and surprise people with how bright they are

January 8, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Aerial view of Monte Sierpe “Band of Holes” 5,200 pits in ordered rows on a ridge above Peru’s Pisco Valley.

More than 5,200 holes lined up as if they were numbers hid more than just an archaeological mystery

January 8, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Melting clock symbolizing the “time mirror” experiment that reverses part of an electromagnetic wave backward in time.

After 60 years of theory, a team achieves a real “time mirror”, and what happens to the wave seems to come from the future

January 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Satellite-style map showing the East African Rift, a long seam splitting Africa between the Nubian and Somali plates.

Africa looks motionless from space, but a thousands-of-kilometers-long “crack” is already splitting it apart, and satellites are watching it spread section by section

January 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Arid shoreline of Lake Turkana with Omo–Turkana Basin map, where a 1,231-fossil catalog reveals major gaps in the record.

They gathered 117 scattered studies and compiled a single catalog with 1,231 fossils and 658 individuals, but what is most disturbing is what is missing in between

January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Medieval heraldic stone slab discovered beneath an old building during sewer repairs in Vyborg, Russia

Maintenance workers were repairing an old building when they lifted a stone cover and found something that left archaeologists speechless

January 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Cratered Moon surface in shadow, representing the Moon receding from Earth and the slow lengthening of our days.

They detected that the Moon is moving away about 3.8 centimeters per year, and the disturbing detail is that this “step backward” is stretching our days without anyone noticing

January 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Haul truck hauling limestone at an Oklahoma quarry near the Richards Spur fossil caves.

Scientists were searching for bones in an Oklahoma cave, but they found something much rarer and more extraordinary

January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Alicella gigantea supergiant amphipods swarm a baited deep-sea lander on the abyssal seafloor.

A strange 34-centimeter creature was recorded in the deep ocean between 3,000 and almost 9,000 meters deep, and the question is no longer whether it exists, but how many there really are

January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Earth in space with lightning-like energy lines, illustrating a hidden electric field pulling atmospheric particles into space.

Earth’s hidden electric field is quietly leaking our atmosphere into space

January 6, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Illustration showing Mars with water imagery, symbolizing ancient wave ripples that suggest shallow, ice-free lakes once existed on the planet.

The small marks that anyone has seen on a beach now appear on Mars and could be the clearest evidence of shallow, ice-free lakes

January 6, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Underground cave lake with turquoise water and mineral formations, used as an illustration for Earth’s “hidden ocean” discovery.

Gigantic “hidden ocean” discovered 700 kilometers beneath Earth’s surface

January 5, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Illustration of a Martian crater lake, representing evidence of ancient liquid water on Mars from wave ripple patterns.

Clear and definitive evidence of liquid water, not just ancient ice, found on Mars

January 5, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Two spherical dinosaur egg fossils from Anhui, China, cracked open to reveal sparkling calcite crystals inside like a geode.

Scientists find two nearly perfect dinosaur eggs in China and, upon opening them, discover a shiny interior filled with crystals like a geode

January 5, 2026 at 7:32 AM
NASA LunaRecycle Challenge winners announcement graphic over the Moon’s surface with NASA logo and recycling badge.

NASA’s 3 million dollar “lunar recycle” bet could change how we deal with trash on and off the Moon

January 4, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Montage of ALMA observations showing warped, tilted protoplanetary discs traced by carbon monoxide gas around young stars.

Astronomers tracked carbon monoxide around young stars and found a twist that shouldn’t be there

January 4, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Satellite chlorophyll-a map of the Gulf of Panama showing plankton-rich waters linked to seasonal upwelling.

The Panama Sea stopped “breathing” in 2025, and what satellites and fishermen saw had never been recorded in four decades

January 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars with inset close-up of the metal-rich rock “Phippsaksla,” likely an iron-nickel meteorite.

Perseverance finds a metal stranger on Mars and a new clue to our own planet’s past

January 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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