Zhang Li

For The First Time, U.S. Scientists Revived A 3.2-Byr-Old Enzyme, Nitrogenase, From Earth’s Pre-Low-Oxygen Era. The Enzyme, Rebuilt In Modern Bacteria, Still Converts Air Nitrogen Into Food For Life As Today’s Versions Do, Confirming Ancient Life Signals In Rocks & Helping To Explain Life’s Origins On Earth & Possible Life On Other Planets.

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NASA & ESA Confirmed The First Discovery Of Cloud-9, A Giant Starless Gas Cloud And Failed Galaxy. First Detected By The FAST Telescope In 2023 & Confirmed By Hubble In Jan 2026, It Contains Only Hydrogen Held By A Dark Matter Halo. Located 14M Ly Away Near Messier 94, It Is A Rare Early-Universe Relic Showing Why Some Galaxies Never Form.

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Astronomers Discovered The Most Distant Supernova Ever Observed, Exploding When The Universe Was Only ~730 Myrs Old (Z≈7.3). First Detected Via A Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 250314A By The SVOM Satellite On 3/14/25, It Was Later Confirmed By JWST, Shedding Light On How Early Massive Stars Formed And Died. Findings Were Announced In December 2025.

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Saturn Now Has 274 Moons, The Most In Our Solar System (SS), Surpassing Jupiter As The SS’s “Moon King.” Astronomers Using The Canada–France-Hawaii Telescope Discovered 128 Tiny (2-4 Km) Potato-Shaped Moons, Likely Fragments From Ancient Collisions. First Spotted In 2023, The 128 Moons Orbits Were Confirmed And Announced In 2025 By The IAU.

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For The First Time, NASA Found Traces Of Tryptophan, An Essential Earth Amino Acid, In Bennu (BN) Samples. This Brings BN’s Total # Of Protein-Building Amino Acid To 15 Of 20 Used On Earth. BN Also Holds All 5 Nucleobases & Water Signs. These Finds Support The Idea That Carbon-Rich Asteroids Delivered Life’s Building Blocks To Early Earth.

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