Astronomers utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that galaxies just 500 million years after the Big Bang were surprisingly rich in heavy elements. This finding contradicts previous

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially commenced its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), embarking on an ambitious mission to create an unprecedented three-dimensional map of the Mil

Scientists at UC Berkeley have achieved unprecedented precision in dating the 79 AD Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii, using argon-argon dating of sanidine crystals from volcanic pumice. This adva

Researchers, while reconstructing the appearance of East Antarctica without its ice cover, unexpectedly discovered a giant fan-shaped geological structure. This finding occurred during a project that

NASA's Perseverance rover made a surprising discovery at the edge of Mars' Jezero Crater, where scientists expected to find sedimentary rocks from an ancient lakebed. Instead, the rover uncovered igne

SpaceX's Starship, the world's most powerful rocket, successfully completed its first orbital flight on Monday, September 28, 2026. This three-hour mission marked a significant step towards perfecting

The joint ESA-JAXA Ramses mission, which aims to study asteroid Apophis during its highly anticipated 2029 close encounter with Earth, has successfully completed its first spacecraft systems switch-on

Archaeologists with Norway's "Secrets of the Ice" program have uncovered 48 prehistoric arrows in the Jotunheimen mountains, including an exceptionally well-preserved 6,000-year-old slate arrowhead. T

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that just 500 million years after the Big Bang, galaxies were already pumping heavy elements like oxygen, carbon, and silicon into the

A prominent 2-billion-year-old chemical signature, long thought to signify a major global change in Earth's carbon cycle, is now proposed to have been caused by local geological processes. New researc

Four years ago, on September 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, a moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. This histori

Astronomers have achieved the first unambiguous detection of radio signals directly from an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b, a massive gas giant located 63 light-years away. These bursts of radio waves, ob

A new study by researchers at the University of Copenhagen suggests that the ultimate fate of massive dying stars, whether they become supernovae or collapse directly into black holes, may hinge on an

Researchers from the University of British Columbia have discovered two new species of sea spiders in the Salish Sea, marking the first such description in the region in nearly a century. One species,

A spectacular and rare lunar crater, named McGetchin, has recently been discovered on the Moon by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The crater formed between April and May of 2024 when a comet o

Infleqtion announced on September 24, 2026, that it has successfully entangled 30 logical qubits using only 80 physical qubits on its Sqale quantum computing platform. This breakthrough, a result of h

New observations with the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed the presence of water and oxygen-rich dust surprisingly close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Mil

A new model-based analysis reinforces the potential of the combination therapy of TECVAYLI and DARZALEX FASPRO for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. This regimen, a bispecific ant

Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano has seen a resumption of precursory lava overflows from its north summit vent, with several events occurring late on September 22nd and into September 23rd, 2026. These overfl

Physicists working with CERN's Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment have conducted an expanded search for microscopic quantum black holes using proton-proton collision data from 2016 to 2018. They f

A "jaw-dropping" El Niño phenomenon has broken temperature records in the Pacific Ocean well ahead of its anticipated peak. This "Godzilla-level" event is significantly amplifying the climate crisis,

A 20-meter-long fossil of a new dinosaur species, named Dasosaurus tocantinensis, was discovered by a construction crew building a road rail terminal in Davinopolis, Brazil. Initially thought to be a

A G1-class (minor) geomagnetic storm watch has been issued for September 23-24, 2026, as a fast-moving stream of solar wind emanating from a canyon-shaped coronal hole is expected to reach Earth. This

New research from Stanford Medicine suggests that the human brain develops from two distinct cellular systems, challenging the long-held view of it as a single organ with a shared origin. This discove

Researchers at UT San Antonio have developed smart nanomaterials, engineered at a scale of just 20 nanometers, that can be remotely controlled using magnetic fields to influence nerve cell activity. T

Scientists using the Euclid space telescope have discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever recorded, with two dating back to when the Universe was only 670 million years old. These intensely lumi

Astronomers with the Catalina Sky Survey recently discovered a small asteroid, 2026 RW1, only about 6.5 hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere. Measuring approximately 80 centimeters (2.6 feet) ac

Engineers are now estimating that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which recently completed assembly and is undergoing testing, could operate for up to 22 years. This is more than double its

Scientists are developing an innovative method to construct buildings on Mars using a mixture of yeast, gelatin, and Martian regolith. This approach aims to provide future Martian colonists with a sus

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a breakthrough in quantum computing by achieving single-gate, parallelized multipartite entanglement on a room-temperature diamond quant

The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected "dark stars" in the early Universe, celestial objects theorized to be made only of hydrogen and helium and powered by dark matter. Unlike fusion-powere

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Fayuvi (rebisufligene etisparvovec-hopf), making it the first-ever gene therapy for pediatric patients with Sanfilippo syndrome Type

A newly identified 240-million-year-old prehistoric animal, named *Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda*, has been discovered in Tanzania. This find is significant as the genus *Dinodontosaurus* was previousl

New supercomputer simulations suggest that puzzling "Little Red Dots" observed by the James Webb Space Telescope are rapidly growing black holes from the early Universe. These black holes may have for

Inertia Enterprises has announced that high-fidelity simulations, benchmarked against Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) codes, indicate their laser indirect dri

Inertia Enterprises announced that high-fidelity simulations of its commercial Laser Indirect Drive target design predict more than 25 times energy gain, leading to between 250 MWe and 1.3 GWe of grid

Researchers at University College London (UCL) have successfully reconstructed 10-second video clips of what mice were watching, using only the activity of thousands of neurons in their visual cortex.

Despite ceasing nuclear testing in 2017, North Korea's past activities at its Punggye-ri site have continued to induce significant seismic activity. This has led to nearly 1,400 recorded earthquakes i

Scientists have observed an unexpected phenomenon where ice creates a 6-nanometer thick vapor barrier when rapidly heated by a hot platinum film. This insulating vapor gap significantly slows heat tra