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Jan 14th, 2026 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new observations revealed. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter New ... [Read More]

Jan 14th, 2026 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Scientists may have finally pinned down the nature of some of the most baffling objects in the night sky. In a new study, researchers investigated the ... [Read More]

Jan 14th, 2026 - One of the best things about NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers are the amazing scenic photographs that they produce of Mars' landscape. These photos give scientists a better view of our red neighbor and are also just cool to see . The latest image from Curiosity is a gorgeous panorama taken from Mars' Mount Sharp region, and it's an instant classic.  Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source. The photo, which NASA posted ... [Read More]

Jan 14th, 2026 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Stunned astronomers have discovered a zombie star relatively near Earth that is inexplicably emitting a persistent, rainbow-like shock wave as it speeds ... [Read More]

Jan 14th, 2026 - Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at UC Riverside, was skeptical when he read recent studies that showed the gravitational pull from Mars being connected to Earth's long-term climate patterns. These studies suggested that sediment layers on the floor of our oceans have recorded climate cycles influenced by the Red Planet despite its distance from Earth and small size. Mars measures in at only half Earth's diameter and 10 percent of its mass. "I knew Mars had some effect on ... [Read More]

Jan 14th, 2026 - In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch missions aimed at finding habitable worlds, water on the Moon and clues to how our solar system formed. Together, these launches will mark a turning point in how humanity studies the universe – and how nations cooperate and compete beyond Earth. Coming from one of the world's largest ... [Read More]

Jan 13th, 2026 - If 3I/ATLAS wasn't enough of an excitement, our solar system has recently welcomed a new comet visitor. However, like 3I/ATLAS, it hasn't arrived here from an interstellar home , but from a thick bubble of gas and icy pieces that envelops our solar system. Scientists have named it C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS). Swinging around 215 million miles away from Earth, somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the icy visitor is being revered with the honorary title of the "Great Comet of the Year" for ... [Read More]

Jan 13th, 2026 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter One of the largest searches for alien intelligence in history is nearing completion, thanks to the help of more than 2 million citizen scientists and the ... [Read More]

Jan 13th, 2026 - Dust isn't that bad after all, at least on Mars . The Red planet has an abundance of dust, dirt, and soil across most of its surface, and they constantly interact or rub against one another. From this friction between the dust particles comes electricity that can light up the Martian sky. In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters , researchers found that electricity created by dust also significantly influences the planet's chemistry. Researchers found that the dust ... [Read More]

Jan 13th, 2026 - Although we are going to lose about an hour of nighttime in January, and even more after that, it still leaves us with lots of darkness to observe several celestial events in the upcoming weeks. One of the most notable is Jupiter at opposition, when you can catch our largest planet in the solar system at its brightest. Although it reached exact opposition Saturday night, peak visibility lasts through January. It's hard to miss. "The opposition of Jupiter is not a one-night event by any means," ... [Read More]

Jan 13th, 2026 - When thinking of Mars , a big, red, and dry landscape comes to mind. The image hardly ever consists of a water body, even though the planet is known to contain them. Recent findings may have found new leads hinting at the presence of an ancient ocean on the Red planet. Researchers at Rice University used a climate model redesigned for Mars, though a tool called Proxy System Modeling, to understand if lakes could thrive on the planet. The findings, published in  AGU Advances , showed that ... [Read More]

Jan 12th, 2026 - Follow Earth on Google NASA lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution ( MAVEN ) spacecraft on December 6, 2025, while it was orbiting Mars, and communications did not return afterward. NASA began recovery work soon after the missed pass, and mission teams started troubleshooting the silence across the Deep Space Network ( DSN ). Mars Maven goes silent After the lost signal, the spacecraft kept circling Mars, and NASA treated the event as an urgent spacecraft emergency. NASA's ... [Read More]

Jan 12th, 2026 - Commissioned in November of 1999 as the eighth mission in NASA's low-cost, high-frequency Discovery program of planetary science exploration, Deep Impact's goal was to investigate the interior of a comet, in part because these dirty snowballs contain debris from the early solar system. On Jan. 12, 2005, a spacecraft made up of both flyby and impactor components launched. On July 3rd, the largely-copper impactor was released, and the next day collided successfully with Comet 9P/Tempel 1 . The ... [Read More]

Jan 12th, 2026 - Follow Earth on Google For a long time, the moon looked like a world that finished its big changes early and then went quiet. Its surface still shows scars from ancient lava floods and heavy impacts, but many researchers treated those features as leftovers from a much older era. New evidence from the moon's far side adds a twist. Some parts of that hidden hemisphere show signs that the crust kept moving far more recently than many people expected. Scientists have tracked long, arching ridges ... [Read More]

Jan 12th, 2026 - When some scientists and conspiracy theorists saw the strange trajectory of the space object 3I/ATLAS, some of them thought one thing: aliens. With a bizarre shape, an unusually precise trajectory, and unpredictable acceleration patterns, , the paper likens the behavior of 3I/ATLAS to that of other comets zooming through our solar system, linking its abnormal flight patterns to a phenomenon called outgassing, which can change speed, spin, and orbit trajectory. According to the paper's ... [Read More]

Jan 10th, 2026 - Follow Earth on Google NASA has announced a new mission to study the Sun. The Chromospheric Magnetism Explorer (CMEx) was chosen over four other mission concepts that competed in earlier studies. A team in Boulder, Colorado wants CMEx to monitor the Sun's chromosphere , a restless layer above the visible surface. The work is led by Dr. Holly Gilbert at the National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR ) where she studies solar magnetism and eruptions. NASA wants CMEx to capture the first ... [Read More]