Earth to be illuminated by year’s largest Sun on January 3 - Mehr News Agency

TEHRAN, Jan. 01 (MNA) – On January 3, Earth will reach its closest point to the Sun.

Scientists Find 26 Whole New Bacteria Species In NASA's Supposedly Sterile Cleanrooms Which Could Invade Mars - Jalopnik

Yes, zombie creatures from another world could indeed land on a defenseless planet, but in a twist, it's the Earthlings who would be the invaders.

NASA chief casts doubt on long-running push to move shuttle Discovery to Houston - Chron

NASA leadership casts doubt on Texas efforts to bring Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston.

A robot descended to a depth of nearly 4.000 meters below the Arctic and found a living oasis that changes everything we knew about the ocean floor. - CPG Click Petróleo e Gás

Robot maps living oasis nearly 4.000 meters deep in the Arctic, revealing deep gas hydrates and unexpected biodiversity.

This Stunning 'Blue Marble' Fruit Isn't Actually Blue – It's a Wild Optical Illusion - ScienceAlert

The fruit of Africa's marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen that never fades.

University in China Begins Installing World's Strongest Gravity Centrifuge to Compress Space and Time - Good News Network

You can take a scale model to Zhejiang University, where the CHIEF1900 gravitational centrifuge can batter it with 300 times Earth's gravity.

NASA's Curiosity rover ran over a rock on Mars, accidentally breaking it, and what appeared inside left scientists with more questions than answers. - CPG Click Petróleo e Gás

The Curiosity rover finds pure sulfur crystals on Mars after breaking through a rock in the Gediz Vallis channel, intriguing NASA scientists.

Hundreds of Everyday Chemicals Found To Damage Beneficial Gut Bacteria - SciTechDaily

Many everyday chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria and potentially fuel antibiotic resistance, prompting calls to rethink chemical safety testing. A sweeping laboratory analysis of synthetic chemicals has uncovered 168 substances that can harm benefic…

Full moons of 2026: When to see all 13 moons (including a Blue Moon and a Blood Moon) rise next year - Live Science

When does the next full moon rise? Find out exactly when to see the full moons of 2026, including the full "Wolf Moon" supermoon in January.

In 1962, A Geologist Went Into A Cave. 2 Months Later, He’d Accidentally Invented A New Field Of Biology. - IFLScience

No biggie.

Sunlight-driven nanoparticles enable cleaner ammonia synthesis at room temperature - Phys.org

Ammonia (NH3) is a colorless chemical compound comprised of nitrogen and hydrogen that is widely used in agriculture and in industrial settings. Among other things, it is used to produce fertilizers, as well as cleaning products and explosives.

Consciousness May Depend on the Physics of the Brain, Not Just Code - The Debrief

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the brain functions.

China’s record-breaking hypergravity machine compresses space, time from century to days - Interesting Engineering

China's hypergravity centrifuge CHIEF1900 has a capacity of 1900g-tonnes and dethrones compatriot CHIEF1300.

Now is the best time to see the ‘cosmic fire of creation’ in the sky. Here’s how to spot it - OregonLive.com

The incredible star factory burns bright enough to see with the naked eye.

Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star - Phys.org

Using the Einstein Probe (EP), astronomers have detected a new X-ray transient event, which turned out to be an X-ray flare from the star PM J23221-0301 located about 150 light years away. The finding was reported in a research paper published December 18 on …

A Giant Volcano Off The Coast Of Oregon Failed To Erupt On Time. Its New Schedule: 2026 - IFLScience

“It seems like every time we try to estimate when the volcano might get there, the rate of inflation changes, making our forecast incorrect.”