Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

A puzzling gap in our genes may say less about biology gone wrong and more about the social lives of ancient humans. Live Science reported that a team led by evolutionary biologist Alexander Platt has found a pattern on the X chromosome tha

The giant oarfish, a ribbon-shaped fish of the deep ocean that can reach about 26 feet (8 meters) long, moves with a surprisingly intricate set of muscles and joints in its dorsal fin, according to a new study described by EarthSky. Scienti

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has released a rare, detailed photograph of China's secretive Shenlong space plane in orbit, attached to another spacecraft with its payload bay open, The Times of India reported. Who owns the second cra

Astronomers have found a candidate dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the Solar System, according to New Atlas. Provisionally named 2026 ED138, the icy object turned up in early data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. New Atlas

Molten rock deep inside Earth can store much more oxygen than scientists have long assumed, according to a study published in National Science Review and described by ScienceDaily on Oct. 28. The researchers say the finding points to a poss

NASA has announced that UVEX, the UltraViolet EXplorer, will launch in 2031. According to Universe Today, the space telescope will survey the entire sky in near and far ultraviolet light, a band that human eyes cannot see and that reveals e

Splitting a workout into short bursts spread through the day built about as much leg strength as doing it all at once, according to a small new study reported by ScienceAlert. The only clear difference was that the short bursts were more fu

Smoke from the Eaton Fire carried lead at roughly 80 times normal atmospheric levels over about 7 million Los Angeles residents for 24 hours, according to a new study in Science Advances. ScienceAlert reported on the findings, which come fr

Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday, Oct. 28, calling it its strongest AI model yet. Most people and businesses cannot use it yet. Google said it will first go to a subset of cybersecurity defenders and reach developers, businesse

Many people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) keep having severe gut pain even when medication has calmed their inflammation and a colonoscopy looks normal. A new laboratory study in mice points to a possible reason: the gut wall become

Physicists have built a real-world version of Maxwell's demon, a famous thought experiment, and used it to pull out up to three times as much work as the theoretical limit for a comparable system without hidden memory, according to ScienceA

Astronomers have found a large icy object in the Kuiper Belt that may be a dwarf planet, according to ScienceAlert. Named 2026 ED138, it is the first dwarf planet candidate for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and it may be one of the largest