Science Archives - Page 26 of 89

Strange Worlds Near Jupiter Come Into Focus Through Lucy’s Lens

February 27, 2026 by Donna Dizon

In Jupiter’s shadow, something ancient is coming into view.

For decades, they were little more than faint points of light drifting alongside a giant planet. Locked into position by gravity, these distant bodies circled the Sun in silence, largely untouched since the solar system’s earliest turbulence. Now, as new images sharpen their outlines, those once featureless specks are resolving into textured, uneven worlds. Their surfaces appear darker than expected, their shapes less predictable, their histories more complicated. What is emerging is not just clearer photography, but a deeper reckoning with how the raw materials of planets first gathered, collided, and survived.

Rising Space Weather Threats Expose 10 Vulnerabilities on Earth

February 27, 2026 by Julie Majid

A restless star tests the limits of our modern world.

Every day, life depends on invisible systems orbiting overhead and humming beneath our feet. Signals guide planes across oceans, timestamps sync global markets, power flows across continents without a second thought. It all feels stable, almost automatic. Yet above it all burns a star capable of disrupting that certainty in hours. Solar eruptions do not need to be historic to be disruptive. They only need to be strong enough to find the weak link. The unsettling truth is not that the Sun can flare. It is how many essential systems were never built with that flare in mind.

Footprints Frozen in Time Reveal a Scene That Shouldn’t Exist

February 27, 2026 by Julie Majid

In the desert, the ground remembered everything.

At first glance, the white expanse looks empty, wind-swept and silent. But beneath the crusted surface lies a record of motion so vivid it feels almost impossible. Pressed into ancient mud and sealed by time, a sequence of steps waits in patient stillness. Small feet. Larger ones. And beside them, the round, heavy impressions of something immense. No tools, no weapons, no bones, just movement captured mid-stride. What those prints reveal is not just who walked there, but how close humanity once stood to creatures that no longer roam the Earth.

Hubble’s Deepest Ultraviolet Survey Just Revealed Something Enormous

February 27, 2026 by Donna Dizon

A deeper look reveals a sky far less empty than we believed.

For decades, astronomers have stared into patches of darkness and counted what they could see. Each improvement in technology added a few more galaxies to the ledger, stretching our sense of scale just a little further. But when Hubble turned its attention to the universe in ultraviolet light, something unexpected happened. Regions once thought sparsely populated began to glow with hidden structure. The familiar cosmic map started to feel incomplete. What looked like distant emptiness now hints at staggering abundance, and the implications ripple through every model of how the universe formed and evolved.

Ancient Wrappings Concealed His Face for 3,000 Years Until Now

February 27, 2026 by Donna Dizon

A royal face has emerged from silence.

©Image license via Wikimedia Commons/Saleem and Hawass

For generations, one Egyptian king remained sealed behind perfect linen, his features hidden even as other mummies were unwrapped in the name of curiosity and science. His wrappings stayed intact, untouched out of caution and reverence. Yet beneath those layers rested a story frozen in time, preserved with astonishing care. Modern imaging has now done what chisels and hands never dared, slipping through fabric without tearing a thread. What appears beneath is not just bone and ornament, but something far more intimate, a presence that feels less like an artifact and more like a man.