ScienceForty-nine light-years away, the super-Earth LHS 1140b sits in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star, where researchers have now detected evidence of a gaseous envelope. While confirmation remains pending, the discovery marks a potential milestone in the search for rocky worlds capable of supporting liquid water.
ScienceA 3200-megapixel digital camera, the largest ever constructed, has captured a sprawling cosmic landscape containing over 500,000 galaxies. Mounted on the 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile, the device produced this composite image by layering months of individual exposures to bring distant, faint light into unprecedented focus.
ScienceFrom 250 miles above Earth, the deep blue caldera of Crater Lake stands in sharp contrast to the haze creeping across the horizon. NASA astronaut Anil Menon captured the view from the International Space Station, highlighting a stark reality as smoke from ongoing wildfires stretches across the Oregon landscape.
ScienceFloating in the weightless environment of the International Space Station, astronauts are successfully sprouting Red Russian kale and Wasabi mustard greens. This experiment moves beyond the confines of traditional growth chambers, testing how vegetation adapts to various conditions across the orbital laboratory to secure future deep-space food supplies.
ScienceEroding out of the ground on Zimbabwe’s Spurwing Island, fossilized leg bones have revealed Musango matusadonaensis, a previously unknown dinosaur from 210 million years ago. This discovery, published in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, offers a clearer picture of how early sauropodomorphs began their expansion across ancient, connected landmasses.
ScienceFloating inside the spacecraft, astronaut Jessica Meir is redefining the home gym experience by performing sit-ups in microgravity. Her recent video captures the physical exertion of space-based training paired with a backdrop few on Earth will ever witness, turning a standard exercise routine into a high-altitude spectacle.
ScienceNASA’s Juno spacecraft has peered beneath the crust of Io, mapping internal temperatures of the solar system’s most volcanically active world. By utilizing microwave radiometry during two recent close-range flybys, researchers transitioned from observing surface eruptions to measuring the hidden heat signatures driving the moon’s constant, gravity-induced geological turmoil.
ScienceFloating 250 miles above Earth, astronaut Don Pettit has finally processed a massive archive of 1.2 million raw images from his latest International Space Station mission. Among the collection, one specific long-exposure shot of the Milky Way stands out, showcasing the galaxy with sharp, pinpoint clarity from the Cupola module.
ScienceTemperatures exceeding 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit during the 1945 Hiroshima bombing fused urban debris into a previously unknown multicomponent alloy. Researchers identified this rare material within microscopic glass-like droplets, known as hiroshimaites, recovered from the sands of Hiroshima Bay nearly eight decades after the nuclear blast.
ScienceA novel antiretroviral drug, VH-499, has demonstrated significant efficacy in reducing viral loads during its first human clinical trial. By targeting the protective capsid protein of HIV-1, the treatment offers a potential alternative for patients requiring complex medication regimens, according to findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
ScienceTraveling at 5,400 mph, an abandoned SpaceX upper stage is poised to strike the moon’s western limb this Wednesday. The collision, occurring over a year after the rocket deployed two private lunar landers, will create a significant crater and offer researchers a rare chance to study orbital debris impacts.
ScienceEvery person on Earth may carry genetic traces of an unidentified human ancestor, according to a study published in Science. Researchers using a new analytical method called TRACE discovered DNA segments that do not match Neanderthals, Denisovans, or any other known hominid group currently recorded in the fossil record.
ScienceStretching across the Martian horizon in the Valle Grande valley, a vast expanse of honeycomb-like polygonal fractures has appeared in high-definition imagery from NASA’s Curiosity rover. Unlike smaller, isolated patches encountered earlier in the mission, this sprawling geometric landscape envelops the surrounding terrain, including a six-meter-tall butte named Miraflores.
ScienceA supermassive black hole, weighing one million times the mass of the Sun, has shredded a star more than 30,000 light-years from its galaxy’s center. This rare tidal disruption event, detected by NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, challenges the long-held assumption that these phenomena occur exclusively within galactic cores.
ScienceWhen physician Mahendra Lal Sircar founded the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1876, he envisioned an institution where Indians could pursue original research under colonial rule. Today, the Kolkata-based laboratory marks its 150th anniversary, standing as a testament to the country's most profound scientific awakening.
ScienceAstronomers have long struggled to reconcile the Sun’s chemical composition with the silver levels found in ancient meteorites. New research published in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests the discrepancy is not a missing element problem, but rather a deceptive physics effect that has obscured our measurements of the star for decades.
ScienceThe Andromeda galaxy, our closest major cosmic neighbor, is cooling off. New data from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals that stellar birth rates have plummeted over the last 500 million years, with the pace of production dropping precipitously within just the last 40 million years, signaling a profound shift in its evolution.
ScienceA human skull resting beside a turtle-shaped ceramic vessel has emerged from volcanic ash in Antiguo Cuscatlan, a suburb of San Salvador. Excavated this July, the site dates to approximately 850 BC, potentially marking one of the oldest pre-Hispanic burials discovered in the Mesoamerican region to date.
ScienceFloating 250 miles above the planet, astronaut Jessica Meir turned her camera toward the African continent this week. She shared high-resolution imagery of the Nile River on X, framing the winding waterway as a masterpiece of natural geography visible only from the unique vantage point of low Earth orbit.
ScienceA childhood nursery rhyme has transitioned from bedtime story to orbital reality as a lotus-shaped lab-grown diamond, dubbed Cosmic Bloom, circles the Earth. The project, a collaboration between Bengaluru-based Cosmos Diamonds and Skyroot Aerospace, marks a fusion of traditional Indian symbolism and private space exploration.
ScienceCaught in a relentless gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and its neighboring moons, Io has long been known as the solar system’s most volcanically active body. New thermal data from the Juno spacecraft now reveals exactly how that internal friction fuels a surface covered in magma, lava lakes, and active calderas.
ScienceA 35-minute delay during the Vikram-1 orbital mission inadvertently choreographed a cinematic moment in space, as the rocket’s onboard camera caught the sun rising directly through a diamond-shaped structure on the spacecraft, creating a visual alignment that Skyroot Aerospace CEO Pawan Kumar Chandana described as impossible to engineer.
ScienceSaturn’s rings remain a chaotic, swirling mystery of ice and stone that even the Cassini mission could not fully decode. Now, NASA engineers are designing PRAXIS, an autonomous, bio-inspired robotic system intended to perform the first-ever direct collection of ring particles to reveal how planetary systems originate and evolve.
ScienceFor over a decade, a 23-year-old man from Hunan province lived with deep, brain-like folds across his scalp that defied previous medical interventions. Following years of failed treatments and rejections from hospitals, a specialized team at Zhongnan Hospital has finally restored his scalp to a normal appearance through a rigorous, two-stage reconstruction.
ScienceFrom the vantage point of low Earth orbit, NASA astronaut Anil Menon captured a striking image of the Starbase launch facility. Sharing the photograph on social media, the former SpaceX flight surgeon offered a brief nod of encouragement to the ground teams preparing for their next liftoff.
ScienceA staple of gym bags worldwide, creatine is gaining traction as a potential ally in oncology. New research from UCLA suggests the supplement does more than fuel muscle growth; it effectively energizes dendritic cells, the critical gatekeepers that instruct the immune system to hunt down and destroy cancerous tumors.
ScienceA miniature version of the Dungey cycle—the same mechanism fueling Earth’s spectacular light shows—is responsible for creating auroras on Mars, according to new research published in Nature Communications. While Mars lacks a global magnetic field, localized crustal fields are driving these atmospheric phenomena through solar interaction.
ScienceUnderwater footage from the Mexican Pacific has revealed a previously undocumented hunting strategy: orcas slamming into sharptail sunfish with such force that the 1,800-kilogram creatures shatter. Researchers documented the behavior in two separate instances between 2024 and 2025, detailing a coordinated effort that leaves little of the massive prey behind.
ScienceA striking image captured by the NISAR satellite depicts the Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja mountaintop in East Antarctica as a hummingbird-shaped formation. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, the radar data exposes deep crevasses and ice-flow stresses invisible to conventional optical cameras, providing a new window into the continent's shifting glacial landscape.
ScienceA striking radar image captured by the joint NASA-ISRO satellite, NISAR, has revealed a bird-shaped formation etched into the East Antarctic ice sheet. The discovery, produced by scanning deep beneath the surface, offers a glimpse into the mission's ability to map frozen landscapes with unprecedented precision.