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While hunting for the disputed planet Fomalhaut b, astronomers on Hubble noticed a second point of light appear out of nowhere near the same star, and Berkeley's Paul Kalas says it looks like the debris of a violent collision unlike anything in our solar system today

While hunting for the disputed planet Fomalhaut b, Berkeley astronomer Paul Kalas and colleagues caught a second point of light appearing in Hubble images of the same star — the debris of a collision between two 60-kilometre bodies, and a live view of the violence that built the rocky planets.

By Space Travel Editorial Team · Sep 21, 2026

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Why does a Central African rainforest nation get paid tens of millions of dollars to keep its trees standing while its own timber industry argues those same trees are worth more felled?

Gabon became the first African country paid to protect its rainforest — $17 million from Norway in 2021, against a $150 million commitment. The country's timber industry argues the same trees are worth more felled. Both claims survive because of a gap in how the world prices standing forest.

By Space Travel Editorial Team · Sep 21, 2026
Flora And Fauna

The immortal jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can respond to injury or starvation by reabsorbing its tentacles, sinking to the seafloor, and reverting its adult cells back into a juvenile polyp, essentially rewinding its own development instead of dying

Turritopsis dohrnii, a jellyfish the size of a fingernail, escapes death by reabsorbing its tentacles, collapsing into a cyst on the seafloor, and reprogramming its adult cells back into a juvenile polyp — a process biologists call transdifferentiation.

By Space Travel Editorial Team · Sep 21, 2026
Flora And Fauna

How does an East African pastoralist community keep grazing its cattle across the same rangelands where lion, elephant and giraffe populations have recovered over roughly two decades, even as fences and farms fragment the corridors around them?

In Kenya's Amboseli ecosystem, lion, elephant and giraffe numbers have climbed for two decades on land grazed by Maasai pastoralists — while Tanzania's elephant herd has fallen from 134,000 to 66,714 over the same period. The difference is land tenure, corridor connectivity, and where the tourism money lands.

By Space Travel Editorial Team · Sep 15, 2026
Earth Observation

Between 2020 and 2024, a Chinese-led team used the submersible Fendouzhe to survey seven hadal regions in the Indo-Pacific and found rich protist-dominated communities living on rocks more than nine kilometres down, where hard-substrate life had been largely unknown

A Chinese-led team using the crewed submersible Fendouzhe has photographed tubeworm fields, giant clam beds and snowy microbial mats more than nine kilometres beneath the Pacific — chemosynthetic ecosystems on a scale nobody expected at hadal depths.

By Space Travel Editorial Team · Sep 14, 2026

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