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Life reconstruction of Yeneen houssayi. Image credit: Gabriel Lío.

Paleontologists Unearth New Species of Titanosaur in Argentina

Jan 26, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period has been identified from the fossilized remains found in...

A close-up view of a portion of a ‘relatively fresh’ crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface moonwalk. Image credit: NASA.

New Lunar Regolith Analysis Challenges Meteorite-Water Theory

Jan 26, 2026 by News Staff

Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite bombardment over 4 billion years could...

This VLT/MUSE image shows Ve 7-27. Image credit: ESO / Suherli et al.

Glowing Nebula Turns Out to Be Stellar Cradle

Jan 26, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Vela Junior supernova, also known as RX J0852.0-4622 or G266.2-1.2, exploded a few thousand years ago, leaving behind a glowing nebula, but scientists...

Díaz-Muñoz et al. identified therapeutically tractable mechanisms involved in the control of gut motility, including a previously unrecognized role for vitamin B1. Image credit: Hillman et al., doi: 10.1264/jsme2.ME17017 / CC BY 4.0.

Genes Tie Gut Motility to Surprising Nutrient: Vitamin B1

Jan 26, 2026 by News Staff

Analyzing data from more than 268,000 people, researchers found that genes involved in thiamine (vitamin B1) metabolism play a key role in gut motility,...

This Webb image shows the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / C. Willott, National Research Council Canada / R. Tripodi, INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Rome.

Webb Sees Lensing Galaxy Cluster in Leo

Jan 26, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Webb astronomers has released an absolutely beautiful image taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope of MACS J1149.5+2223 (MACS J1149...

Computer visualization showing baby black holes growing in a young galaxy in the early Universe. Image credit: Maynooth University.

New Cosmological Simulations Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes in Early Universe

Jan 23, 2026 by News Staff

New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light seed’ black holes...

Simosthenurus occidentalis. Image credit: Nellie Pease / ARC CoE CABAH / CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed.

Pleistocene-Age Fossils Reveal Hopping Wasn’t Just for Small Kangaroos

Jan 23, 2026 by News Staff

New research by paleontologists from the University of Bristol, the University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne finds that giant ancestors...

Resurrection and characterization of ancestral nitrogenases. Image credit: Rucker et al., doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-67423-y.

Biologists ‘Resurrect’ 3.2-Billion-Year-Old Enzyme

Jan 22, 2026 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison has reverse-engineered a primordial nitrogen-fixing enzyme, illuminating how life thrived...

Prototaxites was the largest organism on land 410 million years ago. Image credit: Matt Humpage.

Prototaxites May Be Completely Unknown Branch of Complex Life

Jan 22, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

For more than 165 years, one of the earliest giants to rise above Earth’s barren land has defied classification. Known as Prototaxites, the towering,...

Overview of the impulsive phase of an M-class solar flare, observed by ESA’s Solar Orbiter. Image credit: ESA / Solar Orbiter / Chitta et al., doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202557253.

Magnetic Avalanches Ignite Solar Flares, New Solar Orbiter Observations Reveal

Jan 21, 2026 by News Staff

New high-resolution observations by ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission show that solar flares are driven by cascading magnetic reconnection events, unleashing...

The red knot (Calidris canutus), juvenile, near Gourinet, Brittany, France. Image credit: Stephan Sprinz / CC BY 4.0.

Fossil Shorebirds Tell New Story about Climate Change in Australia

Jan 21, 2026 by News Staff

Shorebirds are widespread birds whose dependence on coastal and wetland environments makes them effective paleoenvironmental indicators. Wading shorebirds...

Paranthropus boisei. Image credit: © Roman Yevseyev.

2.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Ethiopia Shows Paranthropus Hominins Were Widespread

Jan 21, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-discovered fossil — a 2.6-million-year-old partial lower jaw found in the Afar region of Ethiopia — represents the first known specimen...

This Webb image shows a portion of the Helix Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / A. Pagan, STScI.

Webb Peers Deep into Iconic Helix Nebula

Jan 20, 2026 by News Staff

The new infrared image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals the complex structure of gas and dust shed by a white dwarf in the center...

Artist’s concept of ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

New Model Suggests How Nutrients Could Penetrate Europa’s Ice Shell to Feed Its Hidden Ocean

Jan 20, 2026 by News Staff

A duo of geophysicists from Washington State University and Virginia Tech has uncovered a plausible pathway for nutrient transfer from the radiation-charged...

Tectonic Plate Movements, Not Volcanoes, Drove Major Climate Shifts Over 540 Million Years

Jan 20, 2026 by News Staff

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic eruptions, played the central role...

This ARKS gallery of faint debris disks reveals details about their shape: belts with multiple rings, wide smooth halos, sharp edges, and unexpected arcs and clumps, which hint at the presence of planets shaping these disks; and chemical make-up: the amber colors highlight the location and abundance of the dust in the 24 disks surveyed, while the blue their carbon monoxide gas location and abundance in the six gas-rich disks. Image credit: Sebastian Marino / Sorcha Mac Manamon / ARKS Collaboration.

ALMA Captures Sharpest Views Yet of Exoplanetary Debris Disks

Jan 20, 2026 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have produced the unprecedented high-resolution images of 24 debris disks —...

This composite image, derived from data collected by the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA’s Juno orbiter, shows the central cyclone at Jupiter’s north pole and the eight cyclones that encircle it. JIRAM collects data in infrared, and the colors in this composite represent radiant heat: the yellow (thinner) clouds are about 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 degrees Celsius) in brightness temperature and the dark red (thickest) are around minus 181 degrees Fahrenheit (83 degrees Celsius). Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / ASI / INAF / JIRAM.

Polar Cyclones Reveal Hidden Interiors of Jupiter and Saturn

Jan 20, 2026 by News Staff

New research by MIT planetary scientists shows how striking differences in the polar vortex patterns of Jupiter and Saturn may be driven by deep interior...

The SPHEREx 0.75-5.0μm imaging of 3I/ATLAS taken on December 8 to 15, 2025. Image credit: NASA / arXiv: 2601.06759 / Lisse et al., arXiv: 2601.06759.

3I/ATLAS Shows Signs of Full Cometary Awakening after Perihelion

Jan 19, 2026 by Natali Anderson

According to new observations by NASA’s SPHEREx mission, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has dramatically changed its behavior, developing the hallmarks...

Veronika’s tooling technique. Image credit: Antonio Osuna-Mascaró & Alice Auersperg, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.11.059.

Researchers Observe Tool Use in Cattle for the First Time

Jan 19, 2026 by News Staff

In a paper published today in the journal Current Biology, researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, report the first experimental...