Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system
By Marcia Dunn
Astronomers witness the birth of a planetary system for the 1st time (video)
By Robert Lea
Behold, the First-Ever Images of an Alien Solar System Being Born
By Lee Billings
This star offers the earliest peek at the birth of a planetary system like ours
By Mckenzie Prillaman
For the first time, astronomers witness the dawn of a new solar system
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New Clue to How Matter Outlasted Antimatter at the Big Bang Is Found
By Kenneth Chang
Mysterious Antimatter Physics Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider
By Clara Moskowitz
CERN collider reveals major clue to universe’s bias against antimatter
By Vasudevan Mukunth
Where did all the antimatter go? This mismatch in how subatomic particles behave could hold a clue
Breaking: Major Antimatter Discovery May Help Solve Mystery of Existence
By Michael Irving
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World’s biggest Mars rock sells for $4.3 million at auction
By Jack Guy & Kameryn Griesser
The Perseid meteor shower kicks off summer 'shooting star' season this week. Here's how to see it
By Joe Rao
What to know about the Perseids and when to view the 2025 meteor shower
By Sarah Lynch & Sarah Lynch Baldwin
Stargazers' delight: When and where to view July's major meteor showers.
By Janet Loehrke
One of 2025’s best meteor showers is about to begin: It can be seen across the US
By Diane Mwai
The Perseids, considered the best meteor shower of the year, are about to begin
By Julia Jacobo
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Scientists Discover the Explosive Power of Earth's Mysterious BLOBS – Is an Eruption Coming?
Enormous blobs deep beneath Earth's surface appear to drive giant volcanic eruptions
By Annalise Cucchiaro & Nicolas Flament
Mysterious Blobs Deep Inside Earth May Fuel Deadly Volcanic Eruptions
By Jess Cockerill
Large volcanic eruptions are mostly sourced above mobile basal mantle structures
By Annalise Cucchiaro, Maelis Arnould & Nicolas Flament
Scientists Link Cataclysmic Volcanic Eruptions to Mysterious Continent-Sized ‘BLOBS’ Deep Within the Earth
By Micah Hanks
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Blades of light: A tabletop method for generating megatesla magnetic fields
By Sadie Marie Harley
Record-Sized Collision Between Black Holes Detected by Astronomers
By Michelle Starr
Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date
By Jacopo Prisco
LIGO Detects Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date
Physicists detect largest-ever merger of 2 black holes equal in size to 240 suns
By Eric Lagatta
Scientists detect biggest ever merger of two massive black holes | Space
By Ian Sample
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The handshake in orbit that made the International Space Station possible
By Richard Hollingham
Apollo-Soyuz 50th Anniversary: A Handshake in Orbit That Transformed the Space Race
By Becky Ferreira
ASTP at 50: Inside the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project official flight kit
‘Not that into peace doves’: The Apollo-Soyuz patch NASA rejected
By Robert Pearlman
Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror
By Richard Speed
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"Something Extraordinary Occurred": A New 380-Kilometer World Has Been Found In Our Solar System
By James Felton
Meet ‘Ammonite’ — A New World Just Found In The Solar System
By Jamie Carter
Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au
By Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Yukun Huang & Keiji Ohtsuki
Subaru telescope discovers 'fossil' in outer solar system
By Sadie Marie Harley
A Mysterious World Has Been Discovered Lurking in Our Solar System—Meet 'Ammonite'
By Michele Laufik
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There’s a Strange New Hole in Yellowstone National Park
By Margherita Bassi
New blue water spring found at Yellowstone after 'mildly explosive' activity
By Melina Khan
Another new hole in the ground at Norris Geyser Basin
New blue pool at Yellowstone National Park discovered after 'mildly explosive' activity
By Emilee Speck
Yellowstone Park Announces New Thermal Discovery
By Joe Edwards
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See images of solar eruptions on the sun in unprecedented detail
By Kasha Patel
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun
By Mara Johnson-groh
Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats
By Issam Ahmed
NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What It Saw Is Jaw-Dropping
By Mara Johnson-groh
NASA’s Parker Probe Just Dived Into the Sun’s Atmosphere and Solved a Fiery Solar Mystery
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Exclusive | I smoked just once and had to be put on life support — doctors found mold growing in my lungs
By Katie Dollard
SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from California
By Robert Pearlman
SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
By Will Robinson-Smith
SpaceX Launch From Vandenberg Sends Starlink Satellites Into Orbit
By Janene Scully
SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 rocket Vandenberg Space Force Base
By Kathrene Herndon
Is there a California rocket launch today? Upcoming liftoff schedule from Vandenberg
By Eric Lagatta
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Astronomers discover giant alien planet 35 times more massive than Earth hiding in a known star system
By Nola Taylor Tillman
Mars Seen Up Close in Stunning World First 60 Years Ago Today
By Michelle Starr
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'Interstellar visitor' 3I/ATLAS could be the oldest comet ever seen — and could grow a spectacular tail later this year
By Harry Baker
Our solar system has a new mysterious visitor—what is it?
By Robin George Andrews
Astronomers Have Traced Our New Interstellar Comet's Origin, And It's a First
By Michelle Starr
Preliminary Anomalies of 3I/ATLAS
By Avi Loeb
Getting to know 3I/ATLAS, our solar system's newest interstellar visitor
By Matt Davenport
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Webb spots 'Infinity Galaxy' that sheds light on black hole formation
By Will Shanklin
NASA’s Webb Finds Possible ‘Direct Collapse’ Black Hole
JWST finds unusual black hole in the center of the Infinity Galaxy: 'How can we make sense of this?'
By Robert Lea
Remember Webb's 'impossible' black holes? Astronomers may have found the answer in the Infinity Galaxy
By Iain Todd
To 'infinity' and beyond: Direct evidence of black hole birth found in galaxy named 'Infinity'
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Scientists recover proteins from a 24 million-year-old rhino fossil. Are dinosaurs next?
By Katie Hunt
Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift
By Craig Feibel, Emmanuel K Ndiema & Francis M Kirera
Scientists Recover Ancient Proteins From Animal Teeth Up to 24 Million Years Old, Opening Doors to Learning About the Past
By Sara Hashemi
Ancient proteins could transform palaeontology
This 20-Million-Year-Old Rhino May Have Had the Most Important Tooth Ever, Scientists Say
By Elizabeth Rayne
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Volcanic activity in 4 key US states sparks concern, scientists monitor earthquakes at Mount Rainier; What's happening? - Hindustan Times
By Shweta Kukreti
Iconic NASA Probe That Visited Pluto Could Go Dark Thanks to Trump Cuts
By Passant Rabie
Pluto photos from NASA's New Horizons still captivating scientists decade later
10 Years Ago: NASA’s New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Heart
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We’re still learning from it
By Mckenzie Prillaman
We saw the heart of Pluto 10 years ago—it’ll be a long wait to see the rest
By Stephen Clark
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One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions
By Ashley Balzer
New NASA telescope will record 100,000 cosmic blasts, including stars that killed themselves 10 billion years ago
By Anamica Singh
NASA Telescope Could Capture 100,000 Cosmic Explosions
NASA's Roman telescope to unlock 100,000 cosmic explosions in major survey
By Yunus Dar
NASA’s Roman Telescope Could Reveal 100,000 Cosmic Explosions
By Lydia Amazouz
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Colossal eruption carves 250,000-mile-long 'canyon of fire' into the sun (video)
By Daisy Dobrijevic
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This NASA Rover Just Took the Longest Drive Ever on Another Planet
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UNC graduate selected as commander for upcoming mission to International Space Station
Zena Cardman: UNC graduate selected as mission commander for SpaceX crew
NASA, SpaceX target July 31 for Crew-11 launch to the ISS
By Will Robinson-Smith
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 to Support Health Studies for Deep Space Travel
By Nathan Cranford
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Gears Up for Space Station Research
By Melissa Gaskill
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Meet Skydweller: A solar-powered drone that can fly for 90 days straight — it's wider and 160 times lighter than a Boeing 747
By Peter Ray Allison
Don't miss the moon pass close to Saturn and Neptune tonight
By Anthony Wood
This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 11 – 19
By Alan M. MacRobert
When To See The Moon And Saturn Pair Up On Tuesday Night
By Jamie Carter
Starwatch: use the moon to find Saturn before its pirouette in the sky
By Stuart Clark
Rare Conjunction Tonight: See the Moon Team Up With Two Distant Planets
By Jessica Bennett
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100 undiscovered galaxies could be orbiting the Milky Way, according to new research
By Julia Jacobo
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The precursors of life could form in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan
By Robert Lea
NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan
By Aaron Gronstal
Alien Environment On Saturn's Biggest Moon May Support Building Blocks Of Life, Study Suggests
By Srishti Sisodia
Scientists Just Showed How Alien Life Could Emerge in Titan’s Methane Lakes
By Andrei Mihai
Molecular "Protocells" May Form On Titan Even At More Than 100 Degrees Below Zero
By Alfredo Carpineti
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NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar
By Beth Ridgeway
Russian volcano grows 'devil horns' and spits out 1,000-mile-long river of smoke — Earth from space
By Harry Baker
A Solar System Internet? Space Laser Test Moves Us Closer
By Passant Rabie
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Rare distant object 2020 VN40 found in perfect sync with Neptune
Newly Discovered Space Rock Is Caught In A Unique 10:1 Dance With Neptune
By Alfredo Carpineti
Scientists find object orbiting in resonance with Neptune
By Oleksandr Burlaka
U of R professor helps make new discovery on outer solar system
Astronomers Discover Rare Object in Perfect Sync with Neptune’s Orbit
By Jessica Bennett
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Two meteorites found in the Sahara could be from the solar system’s least studied rocky planet, scientists say
By Jacopo Prisco
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Sound of Earth's Flipping Magnetic Field Haunts Again From 780,000 Years Ago
By Tessa Koumoundouros
Hear the chilling sounds of Earth’s north and south poles reversing 780K years ago — could it happen again?
By Caroline Cubbin
Brunhes-Matuyama Reversal: Listen The Earth's Magnetic Fields Flip 780,000 Years In The Past
By James Felton
What Would Happen If Earth’s Poles Flipped? ChatGPT’s Response Will Keep You Up at Night
By Petra June
“It's Like the Earth Is Screaming”: Scientists Unveil Terrifying Soundscape of Earth's Magnetic Field Flip in an Epic Revelation
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Uranus Leaks More Heat Than We Thought
By Gayoung Lee
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There could be “dark main sequence” stars at the galactic center
By John Timmer
Are dark dwarfs lurking in the heart of the Milky Way?
By Scott Anderson
Stars That Shouldn’t Shine Are Pointing Straight to Dark Matter’s Identity
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“Dead Stars Shouldn’t Glow Like This”: Scientists Stunned as Mysterious Dark Matter Lights Up These So-Called Failed Dwarfs
By Eirwen Williams
These mysterious stars could glow forever using dark matter
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Earth’s largest waterfall isn’t the one you’d expect
By Joshua Hawkins
Earth’s largest waterfall, dwarfing all others, is hidden in the ocean
By Eric Ralls
Scientists discover world's largest waterfall — but It's completely invisible, here's why
Not Niagara: Largest waterfall on Earth is hidden and impacts the whole planet
11500 year old formation set off Earths largest waterfall that is invisible to human eye
By Anamica Singh
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Rethinking the Big Bang: Gravity and quantum ripples may explain cosmic origins
Our Universe Might Be Inside A Black Hole
Expansion after the Big Bang: Alternative to cosmological inflation presented
By Martin Holland
Goodbye to Big Bang — Historic finding ‘inside’ of black hole could rewrite history
Could Our Universe Be a Black Hole’s Rebound? New Physics Model Offers a Testable Alternative to the Big Bang
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AI finds hundreds of potential antibiotics in snake and spider venom
Computational exploration of global venoms for antimicrobial discovery with Venomics artificial intelligence
By Marcelo D. T. Torres, Changge Guan & Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez
AI Finds 386 Potential Antibiotics in Animal Venoms
Resurrecting Ancient Antibiotics With AI
AI system found over 300 potential antibiotic compounds in snake and spider venom
By Julia Rock-torcivia & Julia Rock
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Asteroid Three Times Larger Than a Football Field Zooms Past Earth Today
By Jessica Bennett
Asteroid the size of 145 Elmos to fly past Earth on Tuesday, July 15 - NASA
By Aaron Reich
NASA warns building-sized asteroid 2022 YS5 set for close Earth flyby on July 17; here’s why scientists a
NASA tracks 280-foot asteroid, equal in height to a 20-storey building, set to zoom past Earth at high...
By Sheetal Kumari
NASA alert: 10-storey tall asteroid to fly past earth tomorrow at 22,500 km/h. Size, distance & more
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A Cat, a Shrew, and a Hidden Virus: The Wild Story of a Backyard Discovery
Scientist’s cat, again, helps discover new virus
By Jill Pease
Adorable Cat Helps Scientists Discover New Virus (For Second Time)
By Tessa Koumoundouros
Cat Makes Yet Another Scientific Discovery
By Liz O'connell
Cat in Florida helps discover rare virus for second time
By Rob Taub
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The Fight To Save Lunar Trailblazer
By Tom Nardi
The choice of sperm is 'entirely up to the egg' — so why does the myth of 'racing sperm' persist?
By Starre Vartan & Nicoletta Lanese
Groundbreaking Study Reveals Tortoises Have Feelings, Similar to Ours
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Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe
By Mathieu Duval & Laura Martín-Francés
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MIT Gave Photosynthesis a Speed Boost – Here’s What That Could Mean for Food and Climate
By Anne Trafton
A Cyanobacterial Screening Platform for Rubisco Mutant Variants
By Ute A Hoffmann, Axel Knave & Elias Englund
MIT Chemists Boost Rubisco's Efficiency for Photosynthesis
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Archaeologists In China Uncovered A Trove Of Wooden Tools That Were Preserved In Clay For 300,000 Years
By Austin Harvey
News - 300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Found in China
Archaeologists Determine Ancient Origins of Cache of 35 Wooden Tools Found in China
By Declan Gallagher
300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China reveal early humans’ plant-based diet and cognitive abilities in East Asia
🛠️ These 361,000-year-old tools reveal an unknown technology
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Earth Could Be in a Massive Cosmic Bubble That’s Warping the Universe, Astrophysicists Reveal
Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, say scientists
By Ezzy Pearson
Big-Bang echoes unmask a billion-light-year hole around Earth—and it’s stretching space faster
Sound of The Big Bang Suggests Our Galaxy Floats Inside a Void
By Michelle Starr
The 'sound of the Big Bang' hints that Earth may sit in a cosmic void 2 billion light-years wide
By Robert Lea
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Snow covers the SOAR Telescope in Chile photo of the day for July 11, 2025
By Kenna Hughes-castleberry
Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids
By Harry Baker
Deflecting Asteroids Isn't Simple According to New Data from DART
By Evan Gough
Massive boulders ejected during DART mission may complicate future asteroid deflection efforts
By Georgia Jiang
"Something Unknown Is At Work Here": Unexpected Results From NASA Mission To Deflect Asteroid
By James Felton
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