Science & Space News: Discoveries, Astronomy and Research

Another galaxy is within reach of your own eyes this week. According to Space.com, the Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31, is well placed in the evening sky across the Northern Hemisphere in early November, and a new moon around Nov. 9 wil

Astronomers have pulled a giant planet out of James Webb Space Telescope data in which it had been invisible, by building a computer simulation of the telescope and using it to subtract the glare of the planet's star. According to Space.com

Earth's gravity may have kept the young Moon's deep interior hot long after it should have gone cold, according to a new theoretical model. The idea could explain why lunar rocks brought home by China's Chang'e-5 mission appear to have form

A spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected a noxious gas, hydrogen chloride, rising above fresh cracks in the ground near the giant volcano Alba Mons. An international team says this may be some of the strongest evidence yet that magma still m

An international team says it has found chemical traces of blood inside a 115-million-year-old dinosaur bone from Brazil. The researchers report mineralized structures that look like red blood cells and molecules from hemoglobin, the oxygen

Astronomers have found a way to remove much of the stray light and instrument wobble from James Webb Space Telescope images, and the technique pulled a giant planet out of data where it had been lost in glare. The results were published Nov

Common octopuses can pass through holes slightly smaller than the distance between their eyes, using a sequence of arm and body movements that changes with the size of the opening. That is the finding of a new study in the Journal of Experi

November and December are good months to look for the constellation Andromeda and the Andromeda Galaxy inside it, according to EarthSky. After dark, look east, where the constellation already sits high above the horizon. The galaxy, known a

A brass combination padlock from an Elizabethan shipwreck has been opened for the first time in more than 400 years. According to Live Science, researchers at Cardiff University in Wales used micro-CT scans to work out its four-letter code,

One of the smallest accredited zoos in the United Kingdom has announced the birth of twin pied tamarins, a critically endangered primate from South America. Shaldon Wildlife Trust in Devon, England, said the pair were born on Sept. 29 to th

A triple lightning strike over New York City, a lenticular cloud capping a California volcano and an iceberg glowing at sunset off Antarctica are among the finalists in the 2026 Weather Photographer of the Year competition. The Royal Meteor

After a search that began in the 1980s, physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider Beauty experiment, known as LHCb, say they have found evidence of an extremely rare particle decay. ScienceAlert reported that the LHCb Collaboration pr