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San Andreas Fault: New San Jose State University research finds fault is slipping faster than previously thought - ABC7 Bay Area

Researchers at San Jose State University found that the San Andreas Fault is slipping faster than previously thought. We spoke with one of those researchers about what they found.

Astronomers announced in January 2026 that they had found a 710-metre asteroid — nearly eight football fields across — spinning once every 1.88 minutes. A normal rubble-pile asteroid should tear itself apart at anything close to that speed, meaning 2025 M - Space Daily

Rubin Observatory measured a 710-metre main-belt asteroid turning once every 1.88 minutes, implying cohesion comparable to rock under the study's model.

Scientists Find 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Evidence of Life, Directly Dated For The First Time - ScienceAlert

Sometime in Earth's distant past, nearly 4 billion years ago, our planet's earliest lifeforms somehow coalesced from primordial chemistry.

Bigfoot-Like Ancient Apes Might Have Been Closer to Humans Than We Realize - Gizmodo

A new study has broken down all the ways that the old distinctions between the “Homo” in “Homo sapiens” and several closely related ancient primate categories are falling apart.

China is launching a Moon mission to find water ice. It’s unlike anything NASA has done - The Conversation

We’ve known for a while now that the Moon has water. Accessing it will make it easier not just to visit, but to stay.

Microbes from Earth may survive on the moon, scientists find - Space

"Even a bootprint or a rover's tread may create a habitable area."

Mars may hold enough liquid water to cover the entire planet to a depth of 1 to 2 kilometres — trapped in tiny cracks and pores in rock roughly 11.5 to 20 kilometres underground, far beyond anything we've ever been capable of drilling on Mars. - Space Daily

InSight data can be modelled as water-saturated rock deep beneath Mars, but a 2026 reanalysis shows the planet-wide estimate remains highly sensitive to assumptions about the unseen crust.

Spoon-Toothed, Short-Headed Marine Reptile Unearthed in China - Sci.News

A new genus and species of sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Triassic period, some 245 million years ago, has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in China.

A violent impact might have changed Mars’ potato-shaped moon - CNN

A single asteroid strike likely reshaped Mars’ moon Deimos, creating its massive polar crater and a global dust layer.

NASA reveals before-and-after images of moon crater left by SpaceX rocket - AL.com

Scrub! SpaceX halts Starlink launch countdown with just 28 seconds left - Florida Today

Live updates from SpaceX’s unsuccessful Thursday morning Starlink 10-39 Falcon 9 rocket launch try from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Scientists reported phosphine in Venus's clouds in 2020, then watched the finding come under fierce attack. But years of follow-up observations have repeatedly recovered the signal with far more data, while no known non-biological process has yet been sho - Space Daily

New JCMT-Venus observations have recovered the candidate phosphine signal with far more data, but overlapping teams, instrumental systematics and unknown chemistry keep the result contested.

Mars Express orbiter captures detailed new video of the crater where Mark Watney was stranded in 'The Martian' - Space

Schiaparelli is one of the largest craters on Mars.

Mystery "mega-planet" 23 times more massive than Earth baffles scientists - Yahoo

“This isn’t what we expected at all,” researchers said of a Mega-Earth that defies planet formation theories.

A little Big Bang: Bowling-pin-shaped nuclei shed new light on the universe's first moments - Phys.org

What happened in the first moments of the universe—before the building blocks of life and the world we know today came into existence? Physicists at the CERN research facility in Switzerland are trying to answer this question by recreating some of the extreme…

Neanderthal hips challenge long-standing hypothesis of a trade-off between childbirth and bipedal walking - Phys.org

The most prominent difference between human male and female skeletons is the pelvis, which anthropologists often use to determine the sex of ancient remains. Scientists have long believed the human pelvis evolved mainly as a compromise between walking on two …

NASA telescope doomed after Flagstaff company’s rescue attempt fails - AZ Family

A Flagstaff-based space company called off its rescue of NASA's Swift telescope Wednesday, dooming it to a fiery reentry sometime after October.

Column | How I captured an image of the sun’s atmosphere during a solar eclipse - The Washington Post

And why it was so difficult.

These Whale Calls Appear to Break Physics, but the Truth Is Even Weirder - Gizmodo

“Most of us don’t hear a whale call and think, ‘Wow, look at the special theory of relativity in action.’”

Black hole star? Solar-system-size 'dot' from the early universe is our best evidence yet of a brand-new type of cosmic object - Live Science

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified the most promising candidate yet for a black hole star, lurking 660 million years after the Big Bang. The hypothetical entity, which shines 100 billion times brighter than a typical star, could shed light on the o…

Researchers identify ‘Mega-Earth,’ prompting questions of how it formed - NewsNation

The exoplanet is 170 million years old and weighs more than 23 times Earth's mass while being just 2 1/2 times its size.

NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory - Ars Technica

Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.

San Andreas Fault just south of Bay Area is slipping faster than previously thought, geologist says - San Francisco Chronicle

A large earthquake centered just south of the Bay Area in the Santa Cruz Mountains is more likely than previously thought, according to new research.

Physicists Think They’ve Discovered a New Type of Quantum Matter - Gizmodo

The "quantum droplet" represents an unlikely, powerful union of two different categories of particles.

What beats seeing eclipses from space? Try the northern and southern lights - AP News

Eclipses may be wondrous, but nothing beats seeing the northern and southern lights from space. That's the word from a pair of NASA astronauts living aboard the International Space Station for the past six months. Astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway tol…

A SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon this month — and a NASA spacecraft has spotted its lunar grave (photos) - Space

The newly formed crater is about 60 feet (18 meters) wide.

The treaty that governs the Moon was written in 1967, bans nations from owning it, and created no court or police force to enforce the rule — and 70 countries are now helping write the practical rules for what happens when humans return. - Space Daily

Seventy Artemis Accords signatories are developing practical expectations for lunar missions, but the non-binding coalition does not amend the 1967 Outer Space Treaty or create an enforcement body.

Sophie Adenot became the first French woman to spacewalk on 18 August 2026, but the job she went outside to finish remains unfinished — stubborn electrical cables ate the time she needed to install a new antenna - Space Daily

A historic milestone collided with the mundane reality of spacewalking: six hours is never quite enough when old wiring fights back.

An echo of Einstein: An unexpected link between whale calls and special relativity - Phys.org

Standing on the sandy, windswept shores of Provincetown, Massachusetts, people may find themselves squinting at the horizon, waiting for a whale to make its grand entrance with a spectacular breach.

Perseverance rover watchs alien solar eclipse on Mars photo of the day for Aug. 19, 2026 - Space

What a view.

My 5 favorite sights to see in the night sky with binoculars - Space

Using binoculars to explore the night sky can bring the universe closer to you — here are my top five picks on what to look for.

On This Day: Akrotiri, Greece’s Pompeii, Was Found on Santorini - GreekReporter.com

Akrotiri, a 3,600-year-old city buried by ash from a volcanic eruption in 1650 BC, frozen in its Bronze Age glory, serves as a time capsule.

Why many birds add fresh plants to their nests remains unclear despite signs of healthier offspring - Phys.org

As they build their nests, many birds are known to interweave dried grasses and other materials with green plants, such as fresh leaves, grass stems, herbs and aromatic leaves. While this behavior is well documented, why many bird species choose to add fresh …

Astronomers catch hot birth of galaxy cluster more than 11 billion light-years away - Phys.org

Astronomers have detected an enormous cloud of gas tens of millions of degrees hot surrounding one of the most extreme structures known in the early universe. The study offers one of the clearest views yet of a galaxy cluster in the making. Using more than 60…

A lunar eclipse is coming at the end of the summer. Here’s how to see it - OregonLive.com

The Universe Like You’ve Never Seen It: 29 Jaw-Dropping Astronomy Photos From The 2026 Zwo Shortlist - Bored Panda

Looking up at the night sky can make our everyday problems feel very small. But through the lenses of talented astrophotographers, the universe becomes even more extraordinary, revealing colors, patterns, and details that our eyes alone could never hope to se…

For The First Time, Researchers Have Generated Quantum Entanglement Directly From Sunlight - ScienceAlert

Entanglement is one of the best tricks in the quantum physics magic box, two particles that are inextricably linked when measured – a key component of potential advances in computing, communication, and sensing technologies.

A sky dark enough to reveal thousands of stars barely exists across most of Europe anymore, and scientists are treating the disappearance of real darkness as a measurable variable in mental health, not just an astronomy problem - Space Daily

Light pollution has become a public health crisis that neuroscientists are only beginning to understand, leaving millions of people living under skies that their bodies were never designed to navigate.