Dark matter could create dark dwarfs at the center of the Milky Way
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The Perseids are coming — here's how to watch the glorious meteor shower before the moon ruins the show
By Jamie Carter
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The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York
By Joseph Frederick & Dave Collins
Israel’s most advanced communications satellite successfully launched by SpaceX
SpaceX launches mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit (video)
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SpaceX launches Israeli satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
By Will Robinson-Smith
Israeli Communications Satellite Dror 1 Successfully Launched Aboard SpaceX Rocket
By Hagai Amit
Israel launches Dror-1 communications satellite with help of SpaceX
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Scientists detect biggest ever merger of two massive black holes
By Ian Sample
The biggest black hole smashup ever detected challenges physics theories
By Emily Conover
LIGO has spotted the most massive black hole collision ever detected
By Karmela Padavic
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date
Researchers describe largest black hole merger ever detected
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Denver science museum finds dinosaur fossil under its parking lot
By Sopan Deb
Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot
By Sopan Deb
Science museum discovers dinosaur fossils hidden under its parking lot
By Daniel Wu
Jurassic Park-ing lot: Dino fossil turns Denver museum into dig site
By Megan Forrester
'Nothing Short of Magical': Scientists Discover a Dinosaur Bone Nearly 800 Feet Beneath a Parking Lot at a Denver Museum
By Sarah Kuta
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Everything We Know About the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
Astronomers Have Traced Our New Interstellar Comet's Origin, And It's a First
By Michelle Starr
Our solar system has a new mysterious visitor—what is it?
By Robin George Andrews
3I/Atlas: Mystery interstellar object could be the oldest known comet
By Georgina Rannard
Astronomers say new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is 'very likely to be the oldest comet we have ever seen'
By Robert Lea
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NASA's Parker Solar probe captures the closest-ever images of the Sun
By Janet Loehrke
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun
By Mara Johnson-groh
Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during record-breaking flight
By Victoria Atkinson
These are the closest images of the Sun ever seen. NASA's Sun-grazing spacecraft gets closer than ever before
By Iain Todd
Sun’s ready for its closeup: NASA’s closest ever images of the Sun
By Dean Murray
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This Ancient Child Wasn’t Fully Human—Scientists Now Believe She Was Something Else
140,000-Year-Old Skull Suggests Ancient Human-Neanderthal Hybrid: Study
By Srishti Sisodia
A 140,000-Year-Old Skull May Point to a Lost Branch of the Human Tree
By Elizabeth Rayne
New analysis of the Skhūl I skull: One of the oldest human burials in the world
By Sandee Oster
140,000-year-old child's skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced
By Patrick Pester
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Ancient Proteins from a 24 Million-Year-Old Rhino Open New Window into Evolution
By Emily A. Carter
Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid
By Danielle Fraser, Fazeelah Munir & Meaghan Mackie
Ancient proteins could transform palaeontology
Ancient Protein Analysis Sheds New Light on Rhino Family Tree
Ancient proteins found in fossils up to 24 million years old
By Will Dunham
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NASA, JAXA astronauts discuss upcoming Crew-11 launch to ISS
By Sawyer Rosenstein
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For a few days this summer, your days will be just a smidge shorter
By Kasha Patel
Earth Is Spinning Faster and Days Are Getting Shorter, for Now
By Jacey Fortin
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By Andrew Marlton
Did you feel it? Earth just had one of its shortest days ever and 2 more are coming
By Daisy Dobrijevic
Earth is going to spin much faster over the next few months — so fast that several days are going to get shorter
By Amy Arthur
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A new Martian climate model suggest a mostly cold, harsh environment
By Jacek Krywko
This Martian Region Is Hiding Thousands of Kilometers of Ancient Rivers
A dead Mars may have been inevitable – and the Sun is to blame
By David Szondy
Mystery of Mars' missing water could be solved by the planet's tipsy tilt
By Deepa Jain
Ancient Rivers in Noachis Terra Reveal Mars' Long-Lived Wet Past
By Evan Gough
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The World’s Biggest Waterfall Is Hiding in the Ocean… And It’s Far Bigger Than Niagara Falls!
By Jessica Bennett
Study reveals how ancient elk rock art transformed from realistic to warped wolf-like beasts
By Sandee Oster
50 years after ‘Jaws,’ the number of white sharks off Cape Cod is growing. Scientists say that’s a good thing.
By Jade Lozada
The Earth’s Layers Have Been Flipped in This Place
Scientists discover that mysterious giant structures beneath the North Sea seemingly defy what we know about geology
By Skyler D Ware
Scientists Found a Place Where the Earth’s Layers Are Upside Down
By Darren Orf
Significant sinkholes have been uncovered beneath the North Sea—an extraordinary geological discovery!
What Are 'Sinkites and Floatites'? Here's How North Sea’s Mysterious Giant Structures Challenge Earth’s Geological Rules
By Utsavi Pandey
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Scientists Injected 40,000-Year-Old Human DNA into Mice: What Emerged Has Left Everyone Speechless
By Arezki Amiri
Human-Constructed Dams Have Shifted the Earth’s Poles, Scientists Say
By Natalia Mesa
Big dams are so heavy they shift Earth's poles away from the rotational axis, new research shows
By Sascha Pare
Water storage in dams has caused minute shifts in Earth’s poles
By Samson Reiny
Big dams may have changed how the Earth rotates, new study finds
By Joshua Hawkins
Nearly 7,000 dams have shifted Earth’s North Pole
By Amit Malewar
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Earth may have at least 6 'minimoons' at any given time. Where do they come from?
By Nola Taylor Tillman
What's Earth's lowest point on land?
By Charles Choi
Elephants gesture with an intention to communicate their desires, study finds
By Sanjukta Mondal
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Scientists Discover Mysterious 80-Million-Year-Old Landscape Hidden Beneath Antarctica
By Christopher Plain
Extensive fluvial surfaces at the East Antarctic margin have modulated ice-sheet evolution
By Martin Siegert & Neil Ross
Newly discovered remains of ancient river landscapes control ice flow in East Antarctica
Remains of ancient world found buried beneath Antarctica
Radar mapping reveals 30-million-year-old landscapes beneath Antarctic ice
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“Accurate Premonitions”: 35 Things That Still Stump Scientists
By Rugile Zemaityte
Planet Discovery Reveals Out-of-Sync Double Star System
Astronomers Discover Surprising Planet in Star System with Two Disks
By Lydia Amazouz
A young giant planet orbits one star, while a planet-forming disk exists around same-aged companion star
By Stephanie Baum
Direct Imaging Discovery Of A Young Giant Planet Orbiting On Solar System Scales
By Keith Cowing
Astronomers discover gas giant orbiting unique binary star system | Star A has finished forming planets | Inshorts
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Fossil discovery in Greenland ice stuns and worries scientists: "Don't buy a beach house"
By Eric Ralls
Feast your eyes on the shortlisted pics for the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards (photos)
By Anthony Wood
Celestial Fish And Chips And A Solar Cataclysm Shortlisted For Astronomy Photographer Of The Year
By Alfredo Carpineti
The ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Shortlist Revels in Our Remarkable Solar System
By Kate Mothes
Meet the 30 Finalists of Astronomy Photographer of the Year
By Matt Growcoot
The breath-taking images on the Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist
By Kathryn Younger
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James Webb and Hubble telescopes join forces to explore a cosmic nursery: Space photo of the week
By Jamie Carter
NASA’s Hubble and Webb Telescopes Reveal Two Faces of a Star Cluster Duo
Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes show 2 sides of star cluster duo | Space photo of the day for July 10, 2025
By Kenna Hughes-castleberry
Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters
By Eric Berger
10 Stunning Pictures Of Newborn Stars Shared By NASA
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Horrifying Research Finds Melting Glaciers Could Activate Deadly Volcanoes
By Victor Tangermann
Melting Ice Caps Could Bring Dormant Volcanoes to Life, Research from the Chilean Andes Shows
By Bob Berwyn
Melting glaciers could trigger volcanic eruptions around the globe, study finds
By Ben Turner
Warming climate, volcanos raise risk of ice falls on Chile's glaciers
By Adam Jourdan, Fabian Cambero & Rod Nickel
Melting glaciers could trigger more explosive eruptions globally, finds research
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Why is the blue-ringed octopus so deadly?
By Elana Spivack
Don't miss the stars of the Summer Triangle twinkling in the eastern sky this weekend
By Anthony R. Wood
Our Universe's origin is indeed a Black Hole and not the Big Bang, reckons this new study
By Sayan Sen
JWST finds cosmic monster ruling tiny early galaxy: Was it forged by black holes from the Big Bang?
By Robert Lea
JWST Detects Primordial Black Hole Feeding Frenzy in Cosmic Dawn
Primordial Black Holes Could Have Accelerated Early Star Formation
By Andy Tomaswick
Goodbye to Big Bang — Historic finding ‘inside’ of black hole could rewrite history
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Numerous Fossils Reveal Jurassic Fish Killed in Same, Bizarre Way
By Michelle Starr
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The "Haunting" Last Message From NASA's Opportunity Rover, Sent From Inside A Planet-Wide Storm
By James Felton
Scientists Say Earth May Be Trapped Inside a Huge, Strange Void
By Frank Landymore
Echoes from the Big Bang suggest Earth is trapped inside a giant cosmic void, scientists claim
By Ben Turner
Sound of The Big Bang Suggests Our Galaxy Floats Inside a Void
By Michelle Starr
Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, say scientists
By Ezzy Pearson
Are We in a Giant Void? That Would Help Explain the Hubble Tension
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NASA discovers a 'super-Earth' with possible oceans orbiting a nearby red dwarf star
Scientists discover a 'second Earth' twice the size of our planet near a red dwarf star, 154 light-years
Scientists find second Earth hidden near red dwarf, could this water world reshape our future
Scientists use NASA's TESS to discover ‘super-earth’ that could host billions—Is TOI-1846 b humanity's next home?
By Kaur Garg
Astronomers discover a new “super-Earth” near the Solar System
By Natalia Nichyshyna
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