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The precursors of life could form in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan
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NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan
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Molecular "Protocells" May Form On Titan Even At More Than 100 Degrees Below Zero
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Protocells on Titan — a possible key to extraterrestrial life
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Scientists Just Showed How Alien Life Could Emerge in Titan’s Methane Lakes
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Record-Sized Collision Between Black Holes Detected by Astronomers
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LIGO Detects Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date
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Gravitational waves reveal most massive black hole merger ever detected — one 'forbidden' by current models
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Space breakthrough: Louisiana observatory detects biggest black hole merger ever observed
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Deadly ‘climate change’ fungus targeted in drug project
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Study Reconstructs 540 Million Years of Sea Level Change in Unprecedented Detail
New model reveals dramatic swings in Earth's sea levels
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Scientists reconstruct 540 million years of sea level change in detail
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Scientists Just Reconstructed 540 Million Years of Earth's Sea Level History and Reached a Concerning Conclusion
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Buried for 145 Million Years – And Found by a Student on the Beach
New Species of Multituberculate Mammal Discovered in UK
Tiny fossil, big discovery: Student uncovers a lost mammal species
Discovery of New Cretaceous Species in Dorset Could Redefine Early Mammal Evolution
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New species of tiny Cretraceous mammal discovered by University of Portsmouth student
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Webb spots 'Infinity Galaxy' that sheds light on black hole formation
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The Perseids Meteor Shower Brings Bright Fireballs to the Skies, Starting This Week
By Joe Hindy
The Perseid meteor shower kicks off summer 'shooting star' season this week. Here's how to see it
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Stargazers' delight: When and where to view July's major meteor showers.
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Groundbreaking Study Reveals Tortoises Have Feelings, Similar to Ours
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Astronomers Use the Colours of Trans-Neptunian Objects' to Track an Ancient Stellar Flyby
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NASA’s IXPE Imager Reveals Mysteries of Rare Pulsar
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New study reveals how corals teach their offspring to beat the heat
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Marine heatwaves select for thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral
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Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids
By Harry Baker
NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space
By Keith Cooper
Deflecting Asteroids Isn't Simple According to New Data from DART
By Evan Gough
"Something Unknown Is At Work Here": Unexpected Results From NASA Mission To Deflect Asteroid
By James Felton
DART's hit on asteroid creates new danger
By Ivan Hrinko
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100 undiscovered galaxies could be orbiting the Milky Way, according to new research
By Julia Jacobo
100 undiscovered galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, supercomputer simulations hint
By Ben Turner
The Milky Way Could be Surrounded by 100 Satellite Galaxies
By Evan Gough
Durham Uni research predicts more Milky Way satellite galaxies
By Pamela Bilalova
The Milky Way May Be Surrounded by 100 Hidden Galaxies
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Hundreds of Exoplanets Discovered by NASA’s TESS Satellite Might Be Larger than We Thought
Scores of exoplanets may be larger than realized
By Lucas Van Wyk
‘Interstellar Contamination’ Could Change Which Exoplanets Scientists Search for Extraterrestrial Life
By Christopher Plain
Hundreds of exoplanets may be larger than previously thought
By Oleksandr Burlaka
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Astronomers hike up Mount Blanc for the view photo of the day for July 15, 2025
By Kenna Hughes-castleberry
Newly-Discovered Interstellar Comet is Billions of Years Older Than the Solar System
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Dinosaur wrist discovery could shake up views of flight’s evolution
Key Wrist Bone Appeared in Bird Ancestors Millions of Years Earlier than Previously Thought
Flight may have started with a tiny wrist bone from a dinosaur called "Citipati"
By Eric Ralls
Reorganization of the theropod wrist preceded the origin of avian flight
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One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions
By Ashley Balzer
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Astronomers Spot Elusive Planet in Featureless Disc
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A young gas giant and hidden substructures in a protoplanetary disk
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Astronomers find a giant hiding in the 'fog' around a young star
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Researcher Spotlight: Violeta Sanchez i Nogue’s Journey to Bioprocess Development at NREL
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory First Look: Stunning Images and Asteroids Aplenty
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Sky-mapping telescope in Chile has local connection
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World’s most powerful digital camera captures historic first images
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3200 megapixels: the world’s largest telescope unveils its first snapshot
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AI system found over 300 potential antibiotic compounds in snake and spider venom
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Computational exploration of global venoms for antimicrobial discovery with Venomics artificial intelligence
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AI Finds 386 Potential Antibiotics in Animal Venoms
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AI finds hundreds of potential antibiotics in snake and spider venom
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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
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Brain Gains: Creatine’s Surprising Cognitive Benefits
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The largest Mars rock on Earth is up for auction in NYC — it could be yours for $4 million (or more)
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U-M Unveils AI Model to Predict Human Behavior
AI that thinks like us? Researchers unveil new model to predict human behavior
New AI is better at predicting how we behave than ever before, scientists say
By Perri Thaler
Are We Truly Rational? AI Challenges a Long-Held Scientific Belief
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Whaling Records Can Help Improve Estimates of Sea Ice Extent
By Syris Valentine
On Solar System's edge, Taiwan astronomers find 'missing puzzle piece'
Meet ‘Ammonite’ — A New World Just Found In The Solar System
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Subaru Telescope Discovers “Fossil” in Outer Solar System
Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au
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South China Sea marine heatwaves split into two types, with ocean dynamics playing a surprising role
A Solar System Internet? Space Laser Test Moves Us Closer
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Astronomers perform a comprehensive study of two open clusters
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Scientists recover proteins from a 24 million-year-old rhino fossil. Are dinosaurs next?
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Sharper gravitational-wave analysis promises clearer insights into black hole collisions
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Vast river landscapes discovered beneath Antarctica's thick ice sheet
By Sanjana Gajbhiye
Extensive fluvial surfaces at the East Antarctic margin have modulated ice-sheet evolution
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Remains of ancient world found buried beneath Antarctica
A lost world dating back 34 million years has been discovered hidden two kilometers beneath the ice of East Antarctica
Scientists discover humanity’s last defense in Antarctica buried 2 miles beneath Antarctica’s ice
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Mariner 4: 60 Years Ago Today, NASA Changed How We Study The Solar System
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Astronomers discover giant alien planet 35 times more massive than Earth hiding in a known star system
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Celestial Fish And Chips And A Solar Cataclysm Shortlisted For Astronomy Photographer Of The Year
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Brunhes-Matuyama Reversal: Listen The Earth's Magnetic Fields Flip 780,000 Years In The Past
By James Felton
Sound of Earth's Flipping Magnetic Field Haunts Again From 780,000 Years Ago
By Tessa Koumoundouros
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By Kiyoung Kim
Hear the chilling sounds of Earth’s north and south poles reversing 780K years ago — could it happen again?
By Caroline Cubbin
“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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Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe
By Mathieu Duval and Laura Martín-Francés
Russian volcano grows 'devil horns' and spits out 1,000-mile-long river of smoke — Earth from space
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