Scientists say coldest 'stars' in Milky Way could actually be giant alien technology harvesting energy th - The Times of India
Science News: Some of the coldest objects currently listed as stars in the Milky Way may not be stars at all. A new stud...
NASA is keeping Voyager 1 alive by switching off instruments and heaters one by one—but it cannot let the spacecraft become so cold that its fuel lines freeze. If those lines fail, Voyager could lose the thrusters that keep its antenna aimed at Earth, permanently - Space Daily
With its power fading about four watts a year, Voyager 1 is being kept alive one switched-off instrument at a time, agai...
Scientists Used AI to Find Hidden Earthquake Signals Along the San Andreas Fault - Gizmodo
Scientists used to think so-called “slow slip events” were “theoretically impossible.” Now these subtle tectonic...
Astronomers Use a Neutron Star Merger to Measure Cosmic Expansion - Universe Today
Swinburne University of Technology and CSIRO have combined telescope and gravitational wave data in an attempt to unlock...
In June 2026, the James Webb telescope read the dawn and dusk skies of WASP-121b separately and found one side hotter and stripped of water, the other cooler and possibly cloudy, on a world where it can rain liquid rock - Space Daily
The James Webb Space Telescope has tracked how the atmosphere of a distant gas giant changes from longitude to longitude...
NASA is creating a fifth state of matter on the ISS after upgrading its mini-fridge-sized quantum lab - Live Science
A new set of upgrades to the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Laboratory is allowing NASA to probe quantum mech...
An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet - Ars Technica
The Earth may not be that massive, but it still distorts space-time....
This Fossil Might Be the Earliest Known Case of Face-Stabbing in Human History - Gizmodo
If the researchers' hypothesis is correct, the fossil represents the earliest known instance of an injury caused by some...
Think preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mind - Nature
Central conclusions rarely change when biomedical preprints go on to be published in journals....
We assumed water had to be delivered to planets by comets or asteroids — but a 2025 Nature study found that sub-Neptunes, the most common type of planet in the galaxy, can forge their own oceans by reacting hydrogen atmospheres with molten rock deep - Space Daily
Water was thought to arrive on planets aboard comets and asteroids. A 2025 Nature study shows sub-Neptunes, the galaxy's...
NASA finally releases a critical planning document for private space stations - Ars Technica
Industry finally knows what NASA is asking of them."...
We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture. - Quanta Magazine
Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic si...
Trees May Not Slow Climate Change as Much as Scientists Thought - Gizmodo
Researchers in the United States, Europe, and Argentina have discovered that some trees stop growing in the heat of summ...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reaches 6 billion miles from Earth - Mashable
It has more work to do....
Titan has rivers, rainfall, lakes and a slow hydrological cycle exactly like Earth's, except that every drop of it is liquid methane and the rock the rivers run over is water ice - Space Daily
Saturn's moon Titan is the only other world with rivers, rain and seas, built from liquid methane running over water-ice...
New sodium metal battery design charges in just 4 minutes and retains its capacity for years - Live Science
Chinese researchers say they have overcome one of the trickiest problems of battery chemistry by developing a special ge...
NASA’s New Horizons Wakes Up From Hibernation Beyond Pluto, More Than 10 Billion Kilometers from Earth - ZME Science
NASA’s far-flung Pluto probe is awake and still healthy near the solar system’s edge....
'Mitch' protein that could change the future of weight loss and fat burning - New York Post
Scientists found that disabling a single protein can supercharge fat-burning while blocking the formation of new fat cel...
Bacteria turn dissolved uranium into stable compound in 130 days, study finds - Phys.org
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A Plan to Stop Solar Storms From Sending Us Back to the Stone Age - WSJ
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A supermassive black hole called RBH-1, weighing at least ten million Suns, appears to have been flung from its galaxy and is now racing through space at nearly 1,000 kilometres per second, leaving a 200,000-light-year wake of newborn stars - Space Daily
A thin streak of gas and young stars trailing a distant galaxy is the wake of a supermassive black hole moving at close ...
Astronomers believe the Milky Way may contain billions, perhaps even trillions, of rogue planets drifting without close stars — and a 2026 study found one 9,800 light-years away that was likely born in a planetary system before being thrown into the dark - Space Daily
Astronomers have measured both the mass and the distance of a rogue planet for the first time. The object drifts through...
NASA taps SpaceX to launch the telescope that could unlock new worlds - Teslarati
NASA's Roman Space Telescope heads to orbit this August aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy with massive scientific ambitions....
Ask Ethan: What sets the size of the observable Universe? - Big Think
For all we know, the cosmos could truly be infinite in scale. But the observable part of our Universe? It's finite, and ...