Life beyond Earth may exist in far stranger places than scientists once thought, a new study suggests. Worlds previously dismissed as too hot, too cold, or permanently dark could still host liquid wa… [+3454 chars]

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always show the same face to their star.

The Jerusalem Post

Life beyond Earth may be more common than thought - jpost.com

A former Harvard physicist has argued that God may have a physical location within the universe. Unfortunately for anybody hoping to have a word with the deity, according to Dr Michael Guillén God is… [+4494 chars]

Turns out God was hanging out in space all along.

IFLScience

Physicist Believes He Has Located God. Unfortunately, They Are Around 439 Billion Trillion Kilometers Away - IFLScience

Four astronauts had to cut their mission on board the International Space Station short after a “medical concern” forced NASA to return them to Earth weeks early.
The space agency has been incredibl… [+3507 chars]

A NASA astronaut has revealed a tantalizing clue about what went down during the first medical evacuation in the space station's history.

Futurism

Astronauts Give Crucial Clue About NASA’s Emergency Space Evacuation - Futurism

A small number of Chinese satellites and space debris forced SpaceXs Starlink fleet to execute a large number of collision avoidance manoeuvres last year, as both sides complained of safety challenge… [+478 chars]

As orbits become more crowded and littered with debris, the US operator is having to move its devices to dodge damage.

Post Magazine

The Chinese satellites SpaceX says were on collision course with Starlink - South China Morning Post

The lone U.S. astronaut currently in space took a picture of NASA's first rocket designed for a human moon mission in more than 50 years.
Artemis 2
's rocket, called the Space Launch System
, arri… [+3441 chars]

A NASA astronaut on the ISS captured the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis 2, a mission that aims to bring four astronauts around the moon as soon as Feb. 6.

Space.com

ISS astronaut spots Artemis 2 moon rocket on the launch pad from space (photo) - Space

There’s little about building spacecraft that anyone would call simple. But there’s at least one element of designing a vehicle that will operate outside the Earth’s atmosphere that’s fairly easier t… [+6698 chars]

There’s little about building spacecraft that anyone would call simple. But there’s at least one element of designing a vehicle that will operate outside the Earth’s atmosphere th…

Hackaday

Skimming Satellites: On The Edge Of The Atmosphere - Hackaday

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth's… [+4164 chars]

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth's massive drop in temperature after the dinosaurs went extinc…

Phys.Org

Scientists solve 66 million-year-old mystery of how Earth's greenhouse age ended - Phys.org

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest-ever infrared observation of the Helix Nebula, vividly displaying the death of a white dwarf star.
Since Karl Ludwig Harding first spotted th… [+3558 chars]

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest infrared observation of the Helix Nebula ever, displaying the death of a star.

Thedebrief.org

James Webb Space Telescope Captures the Stunning Demise of a Star in the Helix Nebula - The Debrief

Illustration of glycine molecules on a surface of interstellar dust being bombarded by cosmic-ray protons (p+) to produce peptides, the building block of proteins and life-as-we-know-it. (Image Credi… [+4964 chars]

A new paper published in Nature Astronomy here, reports tantalizing results from laboratory experiments which demonstrate that the building…

Medium

Peptides, the Building Blocks of Life, Could Form on Interstellar Dust - Avi Loeb – Medium

Water use in California was lower than officials estimated it would be between 2000 and 2020, according to a new report.
The findings raise questions about the accuracy of long-term water-demand pro… [+7723 chars]

Flawed assumptions about water demand mean suppliers in California overestimated future demand by an average of 74% over 20 years — positive news for the drought-embattled state.

Live Science

Californians have been using far less water than suppliers estimated — what does this mean for the state? - Live Science

A gas giant planet beyond the solar that wobbles as it circles its star, hinting to astronomers that it is orbited by its own moon. To make this suspected discovery even more remarkable, if this moon… [+5956 chars]

"In our solar system, the most massive moon is Ganymede, which is still extremely small compared to what we are inferring here."

Wobbling exoplanet hints at a hidden exomoon so massive it could redefine the word 'moon' altogether - Space

Two of the universe's most mysterious particles may be colliding invisibly throughout the cosmos — a discovery that could solve one of the biggest lingering problems in our standard model of cosmolog… [+5771 chars]

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.

Scientists may be approaching a 'fundamental breakthrough in cosmology and particle physics', if dark matter and 'ghost particles' can interact - Live Science

The question of where to place Prototaxites, the Devonian Eras largest land species, on the tree of life appears to be answered. These fossils have been enigmas for almost two centuries, and palaeont… [+3815 chars]

Once these were the largest and most dominant living things on land, but their greatness did not ensure survival.

The First Great Forests Were Neither Fungus Nor Plant, But Lifeforms Without Living Descendants - IFLScience

2026-01-22T09:23:37.053ZThursday, Jan. 22: Waxing crescent moon and Saturn (after dark)
See a waxing crescent moon and Saturn on Jan. 22. (Image credit: Starry Night.)
Tonight, the moon
 has moved… [+23990 chars]

The night sky is full of wonder. Here's what to look out for tonight.

Night sky tonight: See the moon shine next to Saturn after sunset on Jan. 22 - Space

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 21 January 2026

Nature.com

The biggest ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition - Nature

A chemical infamous for its toxicity may have played a surprising role in launching life on Earth. Credit: SciTechDaily.com
Researchers are uncovering how a poisonous chemical could have helped life… [+3599 chars]

A chemical infamous for its toxicity may have played a surprising role in launching life on Earth.

SciTechDaily

Life on Earth May Have Started With a Frozen Poison - SciTechDaily

Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months. This discovery, made with the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half o… [+6111 chars]

Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months. This discovery, made with the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, offers a rare glimps…

Massive cloud with metallic winds discovered orbiting mystery object - Phys.org

Oregon State University researchers have painted a clearer picture of the coastal marten, a secretive, ferret-sized forest carnivore renowned for its cuteness but nearly driven to extinction by human… [+5053 chars]

Oregon State University researchers have painted a clearer picture of the coastal marten, a secretive, ferret-sized forest carnivore renowned for its cuteness but nearly driven to extinction by human activity in the 20th century.