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Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 - An enormous cloud of gas and dark matter shows what happens when galaxies fail. Astronomers think they may have identified a new class of astronomical object — something that looks like a galaxy in every way except the one that usually matters most. This object has gas. It has gravity. It sits inside a massive halo of dark matter, the invisible substance that shapes galaxies across the universe. But what it ...

Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 - The precisely dated fossils sit in a rare evolutionary gap just before modern humans emerged. This cave was probably a death trap. Nearly 800,000 years ago, carnivores dragged prey into a hollow carved into coastal rock near what is now Casablanca, Morocco. Hyenas regularly gnawed bones there. Panthers prowled nearby wetlands. Somewhere in that frightening chaos, at least three early humans lived — and died ...

Wednesday, Jan 7th, 2026 - Something strange happened that made scientists question the influence of companion star Siwarha on Betelgeuse's surrounding gas. Observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other ground-based observatories helped scientists of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) study the changes around Betelgeuse, as per the agency . The result showed that the tiny companion star indeed influences ...