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Photo: BBC NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy have announced plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030. The system is expected to become a key element of the Artemis program and futur

Photo: Superintendency of Caltanissetta/Sicilian Government Archaeologists in Sicily have discovered a unique writing tool depicting the god Dionysus, estimated to be around 2,500 years old. Accordi

Photo: NASA Jupiter will shine at its brightest on January 10. This weekend, skywatchers on Earth will have a prime opportunity to observe Jupiter as it appears brighter than at any other time of t

Photo: MPIfR/N.Sulzenauer/ALMA Scientists discover impossibly hot galaxy cluster just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang Astronomers have identified a giant galaxy cluster that challenges curre

Photo: Getty Images Despite decades of archaeological research, a number of famous ancient cities mentioned in historical texts have never been located. Their existence is confirmed by written sourc

Photo: Marc Miskin/UPenn Engineers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest autonomous, programmable robot, tens of thousands of times s

Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Naturalis Biodiversity Center It is a rare species of ground-dwelling pigeon. One of the last living relatives of the extinct dodo bird has been spotted several times on th

Photo: State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York have, for the first time, examined cloud tops in unprecedented detail using a new lidar system,

Photo: Sachin Patil Archaeologists have discovered a unique circular stone labyrinth in Solapur, Maharashtra, believed to be the largest of its kind in India. The structure, featuring 15 concentric

Photo: depositphotos Scientists have identified previously unknown structures that resemble hybrids of cells and viruses and help pathogens spread faster and more aggressively by moving together wit

Photo: Keck Institute for Space Studies/Chuck Carter Uranus and Neptune are technically giant planets, but they are commonly referred to as ice giants because of their composition. Compared with J

Photo: NTNU University Museum An unusual Viking Age burial discovered in Trøndelag, Norway, has presented archaeologists with a historical mystery. The grave contained the remains of a woman, with s

Photo: The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Schmidt Ocean Institute Sponges are among the simplest and seemingly most harmless animals on Earth, but a newly discovered species found in Antarcti

Photo: Craig Williams/The Trustees of the British Museum Researchers have announced what they describe as the oldest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, discovered at a 400,000-year-old archae

Photo: European Space Agency Researchers have demonstrated that the mass of Mars shapes Earth’s short-term climate cycles. A new analysis of Solar System dynamics shows that Mars has a stronger impa

Photo: Jingmai O'Connor A prehistoric bird that lived on Earth 120 million years ago has left scientists with a medical mystery. Researchers discovered 800 small stones in its throat, which almo

Photo: Barry Isralewitz et al., 2025 A new virtual brain created by a supercomputer will help scientists study how this vital organ functions. The supercomputer has produced the most realistic and d

Photo: NASA A new sunspot group, AR 4294-4296 , has appeared on the Sun, with a total size comparable to the spot that triggered the most powerful geomagnetic storm in history, the Carrington Even

Photo: usiter.com Researchers explained the possible purpose and controversial theories of its origin. the great sphinx of giza, located near cairo, remains one of the most mysterious structures in

Photo: NASA The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially confirmed its full participation in the creation of the first-ever lunar orbital station — the Lunar Gateway . This project, a key compone

Photo: nature.com NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered light fragments of kaolinite in Jezero Crater that could only have formed under a prolonged rainy climate. Scientists compared these Martia

Photo: Bobby Howe/Facebook New observations reveal that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — discovered on July 1, 2025 — shows periodic brightness changes every 16.16 hours . Scientists believe the effe

Photo: terazus.com Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have uncovered the ancient city of Semiyarka, dating back to 1600 BCE, revealing a vast urban center that challenges previous ideas about Bronze Age s

Photo: Comments.ua An international team of scientists has found that Mars may have maintained life-friendly conditions far longer than previously believed. By analyzing data from the Curiosity rove

Photo: depositphotos Ukraine has launched the “Winter Support” program, under which vulnerable groups can receive 6,500 UAH . The Ministry of Social Policy explained that the payment can be reque

Photo: Santiago D. Domínguez-Solera Archaeologists have discovered a severed human head inside the walls of a 2,000-year-old fort in Spain. Researchers examined the find and determined that it belon

Photo: Getty Images A new genetic analysis supports the hypothesis that sponges were the first animals on Earth. Researchers from MIT and the University of California, Berkeley, discovered unique bi

Photo: enovosty Millions of tons of gold are hidden in the depths of the ocean. The world’s oceans conceal not only rich biodiversity but also unprecedented deposits of precious metals. According t

Photo: Getty Images Scientists have, for the first time, created a galactic simulation that tracks the evolution of every individual star over 10,000 years. An international team has unveiled the f

Photo: Generated using DALL‑E Scientists have explained the “impossible” black hole merger The collision took place seven billion years ago. In 2023, gravitational wave detectors recorded the merge

Photo: freepik Using non-invasive technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, ultrasound, and electrical tomography, the ScanPyramids team has announced the discovery of two new “anomalies” in th

Photo: Getty Images The first DNA analysis of German dictator Adolf Hitler has revealed a “high likelihood” that he suffered from a rare genetic syndrome that could have caused incomplete sexual d

Photo: Bartłomiej Kaczyński Archaeologists have uncovered a rare iron tool, roughly 2,300 years old, used by the Celts for cranial surgery. The hand-held artifact was found at a Celtic settlement o

Photo: Hesham Sallam/Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center Paleontologists in Egypt have discovered a previously unknown species of fossil crocodile that lived roughly 80 million years

Photo: Susanne Kerner, University of Copenhagen Between the Copper and Bronze Ages, communities across the Middle East underwent a period of deep upheaval — old social systems collapsed while new on

Photo: University of Cologne, Archaeology of the Roman Provinces  During excavations at the LWL-Römermuseum in Haltern am See, Germany, students from the University of Cologne uncovered a series of

Photo: depositphotos In a rare move signaling the first instance of space safety cooperation between the two nations, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) has reached out to NASA to coordi

Photo: Getty Images Limiting global warming to 1.5°C — and preventing catastrophic consequences for humanity — is still achievable, but only if global emissions fall sharply within the next few year

Photo: ssbcrack Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, currently passing through the Solar System, has become the subject of detailed observations with the James Webb Space Telescope. Analysis shows that its

Photo: Screenshot from the Grokpedia page Elon Musk’s new AI-generated encyclopedia, Grokipedia, has come under fire just days after its launch, as academics discovered major factual inaccuracies, p

Photo: freepik NASA has confirmed the discovery of a new quasi-satellite of Earth — asteroid 2025 PN7 , which orbits the Sun along almost the same path as our planet. According to scientists, the o

Photo: NASA Scientists have discovered a mysterious object with the James Webb telescope that could be a galaxy formed just 100 million years after the Big Bang, potentially making it the oldest know

Photo: Getty Images Premature deaths are linked to air pollution, extreme heat, and other consequences of fossil fuel use. University College London (UCL), in partnership with the WHO, has been mon

Photo: popsci In 1812, about 600,000 French soldiers led by Napoleon invaded the Russian Empire. Six months later, only around 50,000 remained. For a long time, historians believed that Napoleon’s a

Photo: livescience The Northern Hemisphere is now absorbing more solar energy than the Southern Hemisphere, and clouds are no longer able to maintain the previous balance. For years, scientists obs