Mapping the Unseen Features (Image Credits: Unsplash) Researchers have identified approximately 400 bright streaks across Mercury’s cratered surface, challenging long-held assumptions about the planet’s dormancy.[1][2] Mapping the Unseen Features A team led by Valentin Bickel from the University of Bern systematically analyzed nearly 100,000 images captured by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft from 2011 to 2015. This ...
Citizen Science Unearths Hidden Transit (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) Astronomers recently pinpointed an intriguing Earth-sized exoplanet candidate circling a Sun-like star 146 light-years distant, raising questions about its potential to sustain liquid water despite frigid conditions.[1][2] Citizen Science Unearths Hidden Transit A single transit event captured by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope during its K2 mission in ...
Overturning 50 Years of Data (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) Precise observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft have revealed that Jupiter measures slightly smaller and flatter than long-accepted estimates suggested.[1][2] Overturning 50 Years of Data Astronomers based their understanding of Jupiter’s dimensions on just six radio measurements collected nearly five decades ago by NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11, ...
Record Cold Grips the Heartland (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) Frigid Arctic air plunged deep into the United States in late January 2026, driven by a disrupted polar vortex that reshaped winter weather patterns across the Northern Hemisphere.[1] Record Cold Grips the Heartland Temperatures plummeted to extraordinary lows as the polar vortex weakened and expanded. In Alliance, ...
A New Milestone in the Early Universe (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the boundaries of observation further than ever before by confirming a galaxy that existed mere hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang.[1][2] A New Milestone in the Early Universe Astronomers identified the galaxy, designated MoM-z14, through ...
If you’ve ever sat in a hospital waiting room gripping your phone a little too tightly, you know how terrifying it can feel to wait for answers. The wild thing is: behind those closed doors, medicine in 2026 looks nothing like it did even ten years ago. Treatments that sounded like sci‑fi are now routine, ...
Walk through a forest or dive over a coral reef, and you might feel like you’re alone. You’re not. You’re probably being watched by creatures so well hidden that your brain simply edits them out, like visual ghosts blended perfectly into bark, sand, or coral. Camouflage isn’t just a neat party trick in nature; it’s ...
If someone told you your windowsill herb, that annoying weed in the driveway, or the tree outside your apartment could calm your nervous system, clean toxic air, or even survive wildfires on purpose, you’d probably shrug it off. But plants are quietly running some of the most complex, hardcore survival strategies on the planet, and ...
Earth looks calm most days, but that calm is a lie. Beneath your feet, rock bends, melts, fractures, and moves like a slow, furious ocean. The landscapes we treat as backdrops for selfies are actually scars, fractures, and monuments carved by forces so huge it’s almost uncomfortable to think about. Geology is basically the planet’s ...
Sleep looks so simple from the outside: you close your eyes, drift off, and somehow wake up hours later. But under the surface, your brain is running a wild, carefully choreographed show that scientists are still trying to fully understand. The more researchers learn, the clearer it becomes that sleep isn’t “wasted time” at all ...
