China advances space race capabilities with rocket recovery and asteroid probe, while scientific concerns mount over reproductive health crises and space-based solar reflection experiments gain regulatory approval.

China successfully recovered its first reusable rocket, demonstrating a new recovery method and strengthening its position as the main competitor to the United States in the space race across the solar system.

China's Tianwen-2 space probe has rendezvoused with Earth's quasi-moon asteroid Kamo'oalewa and sent back the first images, with plans to land on the surface and collect samples for return to Earth.

The F.C.C. approved a test by a start-up company to reflect solar rays onto Earth's night side using a space mirror, creating artificial daylight over a three-mile-wide area despite significant outcry from astronomers and environmentalists.

A star 1,300 light-years away appears to have just consumed one planet and is preparing to consume another, offering astronomers rare observations of stellar planetary consumption events.

A Jupiter-sized exoplanet has been discovered that managed to escape its star's death, challenging current understanding of planetary dynamics during stellar evolution.

Men's average testosterone levels have halved over the past 50 years according to researchers, with obesity and diabetes identified as major contributing factors to this 'major crisis in male reproductive health.'

Air pollution has been found to alter sperm gene function through epigenetic changes, with a study of over 2,000 men identifying direct links between outdoor pollutant exposure and DNA modifications.

Nobel-winning U.S. chemist Omar Yaghi from UC Berkeley announced he will move to China to lead an artificial intelligence institute focused on discovering new materials, highlighting a significant brain drain in scientific talent.

Deep-sea mining threatens mollusks around hydrothermal vents that have evolved to survive extreme conditions, with potential extinction risk exceeding 50% according to the I.U.C.N.

Research indicates a UFO conspiracy theory linking the disappearances or deaths of 11 U.S. scientists has roots in a bizarre 1970s British broadcast, raising questions about the validity of the alleged connections.