Magnets Could Become the Next Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors
By Mark Thompson
Numerous Fossils Reveal Jurassic Fish Killed in Same, Bizarre Way
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Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92
By Dylan Loeb McClain
NASA, JAXA astronauts discuss upcoming Crew-11 launch to ISS
By Sawyer Rosenstein
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 to Support Health Studies for Deep Space Travel
By Nathan Cranford
NASA, SpaceX targeting July 31 for launch of Crew-11 astronaut mission to ISS
By Josh Dinner
NASA targets July 31 for Crew-11 launch while Ax-4 mission won't return until next week
By Richard Tribou
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Florida cat sniffs out another new virus—and scientists are listening
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AI tool maps cancer in 3D detail
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Tiny fossil with razor teeth found by student — rewrites mammal history
New Species of Multituberculate Mammal Discovered in UK
Discovery of New Cretaceous Species in Dorset Could Redefine Early Mammal Evolution
By Lydia Amazouz
New species of tiny Cretraceous mammal discovered by University of Portsmouth student
“A remarkable find": student unearths prehistoric animal on Jurassic Coast
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Elephants gesture with an intention to communicate their desires, study finds
By Sanjukta Mondal
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Nearly 7,000 dams have shifted Earth’s North Pole
By Amit Malewar
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
Humans Built So Many Dams In The Past Two Centuries They Have Shifted Earth's Poles
By Tom Hale
True polar wander of 1.13 m (3.72 feet) linked to global dam-building from 1835 to 2011
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Could asteroid mining actually work? Maybe if we start with impact sites on the moon
By Leonard David
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
Astronomers Discover "Water-Rich Super-Earth" Twice As Big As Our Planet
By Bhavya Sukheja
Possibility of water on a planet twice Earth’s size: Man marries crocodile with wedding kiss; Top 5 fascina...
Scientists use NASA's TESS to discover ‘super-earth’ that could host billions—Is TOI-1846 b humanity's next home?
By Kaur Garg
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Australian-led study reveals evolutionary adaptations of ancient lungfish
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A Solar System Is Born: Planet-Forming “Pebbles” Detected Around Two Distant Young Stars
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Hubble Images Used to Create a Beautiful Portrait of the Abell 209 Galaxy Cluster
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Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Be The Oldest Comet Ever Seen
By Keith Cowing
3I/Atlas: Mystery interstellar object could be the oldest known comet
By Georgina Rannard
A 7-Billion-Year-Old Ice Ball Just Entered Our Solar System
Astronomers are racing to study our solar system's newest 'interstellar visitor.' Here's why.
By Harry Baker
See interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zoom through solar system in new telescope imagery (video)
By Andrew Jones
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Trump’s NASA Cuts Would Hurt America for a Long, Long Time
By Becky Ferreira
Senators push back on Trump's proposal to cut NASA science funding by 47%
By Monisha Ravisetti
Senate Rejects Trump’s Cuts to NSF, Other Science Agencies
By Katherine Knott
Senate spending bill that overrides proposed NASA cuts held up in committee
By Jeff Foust
Things Are Suddenly Looking Up For NASA Science
By Keith Cowing
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California Desert Dunes Hold Keys to Understanding Mars' Shifting Sands
By Mark Thompson
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This tiny brain molecule could hold the key to learning, memory—and Alzheimer’s treatment
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BrainDagger Films Announces Screenplay Development of Moe Taylor's 2003 Cult Novel, 'The Viral Limit'
By Moe Taylor
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 and ice caps could unleash wave of volcanic eruptions, study says
By Damian Carrington
4,000-year-old skeletons reveal surprising origin of leprosy
Melting Glaciers Could Reawaken Hundreds of Earth's Volcanoes
By Carly Cassella
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Geologists Decode Earth’s 4.4-Billion-Year-Old “Missing” Crust
Scientists unlock secrets of oldest rocks on Earth at Canada’s Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt
A Part of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada
By Elizabeth Rayne
At the origins of the earth: the Rocce del Québec tell terrestrial hell
These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth
By Adithi Ramakrishnan
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The Sky Today on Saturday, July 12: M56 in Lyra
By Alison Klesman
Dozens of 'ghost galaxies' may be orbiting the Milky Way
By Eric Ralls
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24-Million-Year-Old Protein Fragments Are Oldest Ever Recovered, A Robot Listened To Spoken Instructions And Performed Surgery, And Much More This Week
By Charlie Haigh
Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid
By Fazeelah Munir, Meaghan Mackie and Shanlin Liu
Ancient proteins found in fossils up to 24 million years old
By Will Dunham
Ancient proteins could transform palaeontology
Ancient Protein Analysis Sheds New Light on Rhino Family Tree
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Ancient Rivers in Noachis Terra Reveal Mars' Long-Lived Wet Past
By Evan Gough
This Martian Region Is Hiding Thousands of Kilometers of Ancient Rivers
Mystery of Mars' missing water could be solved by the planet's tipsy tilt
By Deepa Jain
Discovery of ancient riverbeds suggests Mars once wetter than thought
By Ian Sample
A dead Mars may have been inevitable – and the Sun is to blame
By David Szondy
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Planet Discovery Reveals Out-of-Sync Double Star System
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
Protoplanetary disk and giant exoplanet: double star surprises astronomers
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KATRIN experiment set new powerful limits on rare neutrino interactions
By Rupendra Brahambhatt
5 reasons Celestia is a must-have for any space enthusiast
By Patrick Hearn
Offworld Agriculture: Developing The Perfect Crop For Space Bases
By Keith Cowing
Moon-Rice: Developing the perfect crop for space-bases
AI is helping to develop gentically engineered food for long-term space missions. We may all benefit
“We Engineered the Perfect Space Food”: US Scientists Unveil Super-Dwarf Plant Designed to Keep Astronauts Alive and Thriving on Years-Long Missions to Mars
By Eirwen Williams
Tiny rice plants could help astronauts grow food in space
By Sanjana Gajbhiye
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Webb telescope discovers stars forming in 'toe beans' of Cat's Paw Nebula
By Julia Jacobo
NASA’s Webb Scratches Beyond Surface of Cat’s Paw for 3rd Anniversary
James Webb Space Telescope celebrates 3 years of science with dazzling 'toe beans' image of Cat's Paw Nebula
By Sharmila Kuthunur
Peer Into The Toebeans of a Cosmic Cat's Paw to Celebrate JWST's 3rd Year
By Michelle Starr
James Webb Space Telescope marks 3rd anniversary: What to know about observatory
By Eric Lagatta
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CO Desorption From Interstellar Icy Grains Induced By IR Excitation Of Superhydrogenated PAHs
By Keith Cowing
Some plants have a strategy to prevent violent ant fights
By Sanjana Gajbhiye
This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants
By Ari Daniel Shapiro
This tropical plant builds isolated ‘apartments’ to prevent battles among the aggressive ant tenants it relies on for survival
By Guillaume Chomicki and Susanne Renner
Condo-style living helps keep the peace between homicidal neighbors inside these ant plants
By Sadie Marie Harley
How tropical plants keep ant rivals peacefully apart by giving them separate ‘flats’
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Keeping wastewater flowing into tomorrow's coffee | On the ISS this week July 7 - 11, 2025
By Robert Pearlman
Busy Science Day on Station; Mission Updates for Ax-4 and SpaceX Crew-11
What Happens To Poop, Pee And Puke In Space? Inside ISS's Hidden Waste System
By Diksha Modi
Shubhanshu Shukla’s space research could transform diabetes care on Earth
In orbit, Shukla works on new space suit materials that may have spinoffs for sports, medical fields
By Vijay Mohan
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The Space Traffic Report: Starlink, ISS docking, and upcoming Falcon 9 & Kuiper launches
By Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera
SpaceX launches Starlink 10-28 mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida
Is there a rocket launch today? Why SpaceX launches have been paused in California
By Eric Lagatta
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
By Will Robinson-Smith
Upcoming SpaceX rocket launch may be visible in Arizona: Where, when to see Falcon 9
By Eric Lagatta
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Scientists Say Earth May Be Trapped Inside a Huge, Strange Void
By Frank Landymore
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
Sound of The Big Bang Suggests Our Galaxy Floats Inside a Void
By Michelle Starr
Echoes from the Big Bang suggest Earth is trapped inside a giant cosmic void, scientists claim
By Ben Turner
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Pluto photos from NASA's New Horizons still captivating scientists decade later
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Sunspot crackling with magnetic 'bombs' is now turning toward Earth (photo)
By Daisy Dobrijevic
What does a solar tornado look like? One photographer got these incredible shots
By Miguel Claro and Paola Rosa-Aquino
Dinosaur museum discovers shock fossil under its own parking lot
By Mead Gruver and Thomas Peipert
Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot
By Sopan Deb
Museum discovers rare 67-million-year-old dinosaur bone under its own parking lot
By Ashley J. DiMella
Jurassic Park-ing lot: Dino fossil turns Denver museum into dig site
By Megan Forrester
Science museum discovers dinosaur fossils hidden under its parking lot
By Daniel Wu
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Antarctic sea ice collapse linked to a mysterious spike in ocean salt
By Ben Turner
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Scientists reveal 'ghost' force under Oman forcibly changed India's direction 40 million years ago
By Anamica Singh
Polymer coating extends half life of MXene-based air quality sensor by 200% and enables regeneration
By Kaitlyn Landram
Nasas Parker Solar Probe snaps closest-ever photos of Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Snaps Closest-Ever Images to Sun
By Mara Johnson-groh
NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What It Saw Is Jaw-Dropping
By Mara Johnson-groh
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Finds Evidence Of "Barrier" In The Sun's 2 Million Kelvin Atmosphere
By James Felton
Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during record-breaking flight
By Victoria Atkinson
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Stargazing in July: Watch three meteor showers, including one that originates from comet with 133-year orbit cycle
By Anamica Singh
Three Epic Meteor Showers Are About to Light Up July – Here's Your Guide
By Michelle Starr
When's the next meteor shower? See 3 meteor showers in July 2025 in AZ
By Tiffany Acosta
Colorado stargazers can witness ‘dueling’ meteor showers this month with up to 30 shooting stars per hour
By Ryan Spencer
July's Shooting Stars
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Scientists Discover Uranus Has a Dancing Partner
By Mark Thompson
Study Reveals how Deep Ocean Currents Shape Microbial Life across South Pacific
By Matthew P LaPointe
Dark matter could create dark dwarfs at the center of the Milky Way
By Evan Gough
Stars That Shouldn’t Shine Are Pointing Straight to Dark Matter’s Identity
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Dark Dwarfs May Reveal True Nature of Dark Matter
Dark Matter Search Could Lead Us to a New Kind of Star
By Michael Irving
Confirmed - “dark dwarfs” may exist at the center of the galaxy and hold the key to detecting dark matter
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This company could save NASA’s doomed Martian Sample Return mission
By Joshua Hawkins