Gargantuan sunspot 15-Earths wide erupts with another colossal X-class solar flare (video)
By Daisy Dobrijevic
Strong solar storm could trigger northern lights in United States
By Kasha Patel
Northern lights forecast says auroras possible above US this weekend
By Doyle Rice
All of Michigan could see Northern Lights on Friday night: What to know
By Ken Haddad
Northern Lights possible in Michigan on Friday due to 'strong' geomagnetic storm
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NASA Contractor Warns That Boeing Launch Must Be Stopped "Before Something Catastrophic Happens"
By Noor Al-Sibai
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch in Southern California
SpaceX breaks Space Shuttle pad record with Falcon 9 Starlink mission – Spaceflight Now
By Will Robinson-Smith
When is the next SpaceX launch? Here's what Arizonans should know
By Brenna Gauchat
SpaceX launches 23 satellites from Florida on 1st leg of Starlink doubleheader (video)
By Mike Wall
Skies alert UPDATED: California rocket launch possibly visible in Southern Utah delayed
By Chris Reed
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Scientists discover thick atmosphere enveloping rocky so-called 'super Earth' planet
Research team, including from UNM, suggest evidence of atmosphere on rocky planet
By Isaac Cruz
NASA's Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet
This diamond exoplanet lost its atmosphere — then it grew another
By Robert Lea
At last! JWST finds signs of a thick atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet
By John Wenz
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New image revealed of "ominous" cometary globule known as "God's Hand" as massive stars tear it apart
By Li Cohen
'God's Hand' nebula seen reaching across Milky Way in telescope images
By Eric Lagatta
'God's Hand' interstellar cloud reaches for the stars in new Dark Energy Camera image (video)
By Robert Lea
New telescope images reveal ghostly ‘God’s Hand’ in Milky Way reaching across the cosmos
By Ashley Strickland
'God's Hand' - stunning space image shows shape of hand reaching across the galaxy
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New NASA Supercomputer Simulations Reveal What it Would be Like to Fall Into a Supermassive Black Hole
By Anthony Wood
NASA simulation shows what it would be like to get sucked into black hole
NASA simulations show what it would be like to fall in black hole: Video
By Eric Lagatta
Fall into a black hole in mind-bending NASA animation (video)
By Robert Lea
Nasa reveals what it's like to fall into a black hole in mind-bending video
By Anthony Cuthbertson
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An Ancient Collapse of Earth's Magnetic Field Led to Multicellular Animals Emerging
Over 500 million years ago, weird complex creatures emerged on Earth. Scientists now think they know why
By Katie Hunt
A weaker magnetic field may have paved the way for marine life to go big
By Katherine Kornei
Near-collapse of the geomagnetic field may have contributed to atmospheric oxygenation and animal radiation in the Ediacaran Period | Communications Earth & Environment
By Yong-Xiang Li, Rory D Cottrell & Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia
Life boomed on Earth half a billion years ago. You can thank magnets.
By Dino Grandoni
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China's Chang'e 6 Moon probe has a mysterious guest on board
By ʿUmar Shākir
China has launched a secret robot to the far side of the moon, new Chang'e 6 photos reveal
By Harry Baker
Chang'e-6 enters lunar orbit ahead of far side landing attempt
By Andrew Jones
The lunar far side is wildly different from what we see. Scientists want to know why
By Ashley Strickland
China's Chang'e 6 mission to collect samples of the far side of the moon enters lunar orbit (video)
By Josh Dinner
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Scientists find 57,000 cells and 150m neural connections in tiny sample of human brain
By Ian Sample
Microscopic Brain Tissue Map Reveals Vast Neural Networks
Amazingly Detailed Images Reveal a Single Cubic Millimeter of Human Brain in 3D
By Michelle Starr
Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain
By Cassandra Willyard
See the most detailed map of human brain matter ever created
By Lauren Leffer
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Huge asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will skim past Earth at 56,000mph today, NASA warns
By Wiliam Hunter
Watch 2 bus-size asteroids make close flybys of Earth this week (video)
By Sharmila Kuthunur
NASA ALERT! Four Huge Asteroids Racing Towards Earth At Alarming Speeds: Should You Worry?
Near-Earth Asteroids 2024 JR1 and 2024 JD very close encountes: online observation – 6 May 2024
By Gianluca Masi
Asteroid makes a close call, a bigger one to pass by Earth next. Here`s what you must know
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Can heavy snowfall trigger earthquakes? New study suggests a link.
By Evan Bush
Study: Heavy snowfall and rain may contribute to some earthquakes
By Jennifer Chu
Can heavy snowfall trigger earthquakes? A new study suggests a link
By Evan Bush
Interview: A rocky link between climate change, earthquakes
By Phil Liles
More bad weather could cause earthquake 'swarms' globally, suggests new study
By Alex Hughes
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Chemical Culprit Identified: Scientists Discover Why “Earth's Twin” Has Almost No Water
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Record-shattering Tonga volcanic eruption wasn't triggered by what we thought, new study suggests
By Sascha Pare
Strange Blobs Deep Within Earth May Have Created Plate Tectonics
By Clare Watson
Mysterious blobs inside Earth triggered plate tectonics, study suggests
By Carolyn Johnson
Two giant blobs lurk deep within the Earth, but why?
By Laura Baisas
Scientists discover remains of a 'buried planet' deep inside EARTH
Earthquakes Caused by Mysterious Blobs Inside Earth, Scientists Say
By Victor Tangermann
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NASA confirms “independent review” of Orion heat shield issue
By Stephen Clark
Clock is ticking for NASA to fix bucket of issues before next Artemis mission
By Richard Speed
NASA inspector general finds Orion heat shield issues 'pose significant risks' to Artemis 2 crew safety
By Brett Tingley
NASA's Orion Capsule Heat Shield Wore Away in More Than 100 Places During 2022 Test Flight, Posing 'Significant Risks'
By Will Sullivan
NASA report: Fix heat shield cracks before launching humans to moon
By Richard Tribou
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Unprecedented evidence humans occupied ‘lava tubes’ could fill in gaps in the archaeological record, scientists say
By Mindy Weisberger
Deep Within These Ancient Lava Tube Caves, Archaeologists Have Made an Unprecedented Discovery
By Micah Hanks
Umm Jirsan Lava Tube Sheltered Humans For 7,000 Years
By Austin Harvey
7,000-year-old cave dwellings unearthed in Saudi Arabia
By Laiba Qadir
7,000 years ago, humans hunkered underground in lava tube caves with sheep, goats and art
By Mindy Weisberger
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Orbiter captures video of plasma swirling on the sun in "exquisite detail"
By Kerry Breen
Solar Orbiter Captures Hairy View Of Sun's Surface - Videos from The Weather Channel
Spacecraft captures absolutely incredible video of plasma swirling on the sun
By Keith Cooper
Space photo of the week: A planet-size explosion rocks the sun's 'mossy' corona
By Brandon Specktor
See The Jaw-Dropping New Video Of The Sun By A Spacecraft Almost There
By Jamie Carter
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65 million-year-old cow relative looked like a chinchilla and weighed only a pound
By Patrick Pester
Fossil of 65-million-year-old mammal discovered near Colorado Springs
By Ajia Cuevas
Likely ancestor of all modern hoofed animals identified
By Bob Yirka
Newly-Discovered Species of Mammal Lived 610,000 Years after Dinosaur Extinction
65 million-year-old new species of mammal discovered in El Paso County
By Paige Cristen Reynolds
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'Gateway to the underworld' in Siberia keeps growing
By Joshua Hawkins
Earth's 'Gateway to Hell' is growing by 35 million cubic feet each year
By Bronwyn Thompson
Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld' is growing a staggering amount each year
By Sascha Pare
Inside Siberia's 'megaslump' – and why it is getting bigger
By Chas Newkey-Burden
Gateway to Hell: Siberian sinkhole grows 35 million cubic feet yearly
By Ameya Paleja
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Footprints in China suggest new megaraptor that roamed with dinosaurs
By Eric Lagatta
Megaraptor discovered in China may have rivaled velociraptors of 'Jurassic Park:' Study
By Eric Lagatta
Largest known deinonychus footprints discovered in Fujian
World's largest deinonychosaur tracks discovered in China's Fujian
Fossilized Dino Footprint Points to One of the Largest Raptors Ever Discovered
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NASA's Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months
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Pulsed Plasma Rocket (PPR): Shielded, Fast Transits for Humans to Mars
Revealed: A 100000 N thrust-powered nuclear rocket could lead to fastest Mars journeys
Pulsed plasma rocket development accelerates manned missions to Mars
Nuclear rocket with 100,000 N thrust could offer fastest Mars trips
By Mrigakshi Dixit
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NASA's Dragonfly drone cleared for flight to Saturn's moon, Titan
By Kurt Knutsson
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James Webb telescope measures the starlight around the universe's biggest, oldest black holes for 1st time ever
James Webb Space Telescope suggests supermassive black holes grew from heavy cosmic 'seeds'
By Robert Lea
MIT astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars
By Jennifer Chu
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MIT Stargazers Snag Stellar Snap of Ancient Cosmic Titans with Webb Telescope's Might
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Venus looked a lot like Earth when they first formed
By Regina Barber
Earth And Venus
This planet is Earth's twin
By Stephanie Raymond
Venus and Earth used to look like 'twin' planets. What happened?
By Regina Barber
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'A dream come true': Nuclear clock breakthrough could revolutionize study of the universe's fundamental forces
By Ben Turner
New Proposals to Help NASA Advance Knowledge of Our Changing Climate
Climate science missions win backing from NASA for further study
By Alan Boyle
NASA Picks UF Mission for Enhanced Earth Water, Ice Tracking
NASA Selects 4 Proposals for Future Climate-Focused Missions
By Kat De Naoum
Climate science mission led by University of Washington wins backing from NASA
By Alan Boyle
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NASA, JAXA XRISM Spots Iron Fingerprints in Nearby Active Galaxy
By Jeanette Kazmierczak
XRISM Unveils Elemental Composition Near Supermassive Black Hole
XRISM Telescope Reveals Iron Fingerprints in Nearby Galaxy
Nasa-JAXA XRISM mission discovers iron fingerprints in active galaxy NGC 4151
NASA, JAXA XRISM Detect Iron Fingerprints in Nearby Galaxy With Supermassive Black Hole
By Jace Dela Cruz
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'Lost' spy satellite orbited Earth undetected for 25 years—until now, scientists say
'Lost' satellite found after orbiting undetected for 25 years
By Meredith Garofalo
Missing Satellite Found After 25 Years of Being Lost in Space
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This spy satellite, lost in space for 25 years, reappears on radar
Space Force finds a dead Cold War-era satellite missing for 25 years
By Andrew Paul
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The deep ocean photographer that captured a 'living fossil'
By Katherine Latham
Could alien life be hiding in the rings of Saturn or Jupiter?
By Rahul Rao
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Axiom Space eyes the moon while continuing to dream big in Earth orbit
By Meredith Garofalo
NASA's planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work
By Richard Speed
NASA's TESS spacecraft resumes exoplanet hunt after recovering from glitch
By Robert Lea
How 'safe mode' protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS
By Briley L. Lewis
Planet hunting telescope TESS returns to operations after shutdown
By Aditya Madanapalle
NASA's Exoplanet Hunting Satellite Is Back In Operation
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Israeli researchers find harmful bacteria and its risks
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
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Physicists might have just discovered 'glueballs': the particles made entirely of force
By Tibi Puiu
New particle at last! Physicists detect the first "glueball"
By Ethan Siegel
A New Particle Has Been Discovered – It Could Be The Elusive Glueball
By Alfredo Carpineti
Possible evidence of glueballs found during Beijing Spectrometer III experiments
By Bob Yirka
First elusive 'glueball,' particle made of nuclear force discovered
By Ameya Paleja
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Breakthrough Method Pierces Ionosphere to Reveal Radio Universe in Stunning Clarity
By Michelle Starr
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Astronomers explore globular cluster NGC 2419
By Tomasz Nowakowski