Evolution Studies

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  NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Delivers First Full-Sky Map, Unlocking Cosmic Secrets

  NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has completed its first all-sky map, revealing hundreds of millions of galaxies and providing data to study the universe’s origin, evolution, and distribution of life-essential elements across cosmic history.

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  Planet-Eating Stars Offer a Glimpse Into Earth’s Fate as the Sun Nears Its Final Stages

  Astronomers studying aging Sun-like stars have found strong evidence that stars consume their closest planets as they evolve. Using data from NASA’s TESS mission, researchers observed fewer planets around older stars, suggesting worlds are destroyed over time. The findings offer a realistic preview of Earth’s fate billions of years from now.

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  Study Reveals Ancient 26-Foot Shark Lived 115 Million Years Ago, Before Megalodon

  This discovery highlights the enormous size and predatory dominance of ancient sharks and provides scientists with a new perspective on the early evolution of the ancestors of today's great white sharks.

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  JWST Detects Thick Atmosphere on Ultra-Hot Rocky Exoplanet TOI-561 b

  Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered compelling evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky exoplanet orbiting its star every 11 hours. Despite extreme radiation and molten surface conditions, the planet appears cooler than expected, suggesting heat-redistributing atmospheric winds and volati...

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  ESA’s Euclid Telescope Charts Over a Million Galaxies in Landmark First Data

  ESA’s Euclid space telescope has captured about 1.2 million galaxies in its first year, providing one of the most detailed wide-field surveys of the universe ever made. Covering distances up to 10 billion light-years, Euclid’s clear, expansive imaging is helping astronomers study galaxy shapes, mergers, dwarf galaxy populations, and the role of...

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  Study Reveals Sea Urchins Have Brain-Like System Spread Across Their Whole Body

  All bilateral creatures have some asymmetry, such as the human heart being located slightly to the left and the liver being located predominantly to the right.

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  James Webb Telescope Finds Early Universe Galaxies Were More Chaotic Than We Thought

  The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that galaxies in the early universe were far more chaotic and unstable than once believed. A new study shows that gas turbulence and intense star formation disrupted young galaxies, reshaping scientists’ understanding of how galaxies evolved into the structured systems seen today.

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  Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS May Originate from Milky Way’s Hidden Frontier, New Study Suggests

  A new study proposes that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may have originated in the thick disk region of the Milky Way, a lesser-known frontier beyond the spiral arms. Observations of its composition and trajectory support this possibility. Detailed telescopic messages from this visitor may help unravel the structure and evolution of our galaxy.

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  Million-Year-Old Skull Could Change Human Evolution Timeline: Study

  A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than previously thought and in Asia not Africa, a new study said Friday.

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  Mercury Has Shrunk by Several Kilometers Over Billions of Years, Scientists Report

  Mercury’s surface reveals it has been shrinking for billions of years due to cooling and faulting. A new study estimates the planet’s radius has contracted by 2.7–5.6 kilometers, offering the most precise figures yet. The findings sharpen understanding of Mercury’s thermal evolution and could help scientists apply the same techniques to tec...

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  Twisted Jet Confirms Most Extreme Binary Black Hole System in the Universe

  Astronomers have confirmed that the blazar OJ 287 hosts the most extreme binary black hole system ever found. Using a global radio telescope array, they captured an ultra-sharp image showing a dramatically bent jet—evidence of two supermassive black holes locked in orbit. The system’s 12-year flare cycle and jet twists match predictions of a sm...

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  Scientists Reconstruct Bust Of Woman From 10,500 Years Ago

  Reborn via a close partnership between science and art, Mos'anne's bust was created at Belgium's Ghent University as part of a project to explore how the region's last hunter-gatherers lived during the Mesolithic era.

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  Doomed Exoplanet TOI-2109b Spirals Toward Its Star with Three Possible Fates

  The gas giant TOI-2109b, over five times Jupiter’s mass, is spiraling closer to its star in a rare planetary death spiral. With a 16-hour orbit and blistering heat, the exoplanet could either plunge into its host star, be torn apart by tidal forces, or evolve into a rocky super-Earth through photoevaporation. NASA’s TESS and ESA’s Cheops data...

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  5 Arms, No Eyes, No Heart: DNA Revealed Weird Deep-Sea Brittle Star Journey

  You may have read that the deep sea is a very different environment from the land and shallow water. There is no light, it is very cold, and the pressure of all the water above is immense.

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  Crystalline Ice Discovered in Space: New Study Reveals Hidden Order in Cosmic Ice

  A groundbreaking study from University College London and the University of Cambridge reveals that water ice in space, long believed to be completely amorphous due to extreme cold, may actually contain up to 25% crystalline structure. Simulations and X-ray diffraction experiments confirm the presence of nanocrystals in so-called low-density amorpho...