
A new giant virus sheds light on the origins of complex life

Musk promises to build cities on the Moon and Mars: The Moon comes first

What the delay of the Artemis II Moon mission means: Expert’s explanation

“Goldilocks zone” no longer enough? Scientists suggest looking for life beyond the classical habitable zone

Did proteins appear before planets? How cosmic ice could have created life’s first building blocks

Are all the anomalies explained by interstellar origin? Secrets of comet 3I/ATLAS revealed

Lunar landings may “contaminate” clues to the origins of life on Earth — here’s why

Planetary-scale magnetic storms have begun on Earth

OpenAI is unhappy with some NVIDIA chips and is looking for alternatives

The first comet of 2026: C/2026 A1 may disintegrate near the Sun

How to become a NASA astronaut: 10 surprising facts about the profession

A giant “metallic cloud” almost completely obscured a star for nine months

What happens to a spacecraft in the final moments of its “life”? Why ESA is launching the Draco mission

Asteroid 2024 YR4 may strike the Moon in 2032: What this means for Earth

NASA to conduct full dress rehearsal for Artemis II mission on February 2

An X8.11-class solar flare erupts on the Sun — the third of 2026

Convincing evidence for the existence of wandering black holes found for the first time

Scientists discover a potentially habitable planet 146 light-years from Earth

Mercury turned out to be not so “dead”: Scientists found signs of ongoing geological activity

The Milky Way is surrounded by a giant “sheet” of dark matter

Melting ice on Europa may slowly feed its ocean with “ingredients for life”

Black holes “going on a feeding frenzy” may explain one of JWST’s biggest mysteries

Black hole found defying conventional growth laws

How earthquake seismometers can track space debris falling to Earth

A mysterious object is holding a cloud of evaporated metal the size of Neptune’s orbit

A giant asteroid warped the Moon from the inside: A new discovery by Chinese scientists

Can bees be used as a model of intelligent alien life for interstellar communication?

Hubble and James Webb show: Black holes are fed by dense disks, not winds

Hot dark matter could rewrite the history of the Universe

Scientists have learned to predict magnetic storms years in advance