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Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 - Astronaut aboard the International Space Station is in stable condition, Nasa said, and a spacewalk was canceled Nasa is considering a rare early return of its crew from the International Space Station (ISS) over an unspecified medical issue involving one of the astronauts, after cancelling a planned spacewalk that had been scheduled for Thursday, the agency said. A Nasa spokesperson said the astronaut with the ...

Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 - Archaeologists uncovered ancient hominin fossils along Morocco's Atlantic coast, and it could fill a major gap in human evolution. A recent study published in the journal Nature revealed that the fossils recovered from Grotte à Hominidés, a cave site in Casablanca, included an intact adult jawbone, a half of an adult jawbone, and the jawbone of a child, as well as many vertebrae and isolated teeth. ...

Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 - At 710 meters (just under half a mile) wide, this space rock sets a record for how fast it spins on its axis: about one rotation in less than two minutes. That makes it the fastest-spinning asteroid with a diameter of more than 500 meters ever found. And it's not alone. The asteroid, discovered using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, is one of 19 large fast-rotating asteroids found with the telescope. The ...

Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 - New research gives us the answer many have been long wondering. Astronomers have cataloged thousands of exoplanets, and a pattern keeps showing up: Around most stars, the most common planets are bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. They're often called super-Earths and sub-Neptunes , and dominate the statistics. But are these really the most common types of planets? Now, a new Nature study points to an ...

Thursday, Jan 8th, 2026 - The Astrophysical Journal Letters , researchers say it's a gigantic space object called Cloud-9 that's about 14.3 million light-years away, near the spiral galaxy M94. It's got all the dense hydrogen gas clouds wrapped around masses of dark matter, but no stars to show for it. First detected by China's FAST radio telescope, Cloud-9 is filled with neutral hydrogen. That means the gas is cool and compact, rather than ...