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Inside the mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dots

“It was extraordinary – my adrenaline was through the roof” says photographer who captured world-first drone footage of rare marine event

NASA’s Just Prolonged Voyager 2’s Science Mission With A Big Bang

Crystal made from 13-sided 'einstein' shape bends light in ways nobody imagined

An Ichthyosaur’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago

Astronomers catch massive star's death from the first explosive moment

Darwin proposed that a type of plant was carnivorous. Scientists finally proved him right

Scientific research confirms a 150-year-old hypothesis by Charles Darwin that a specific mountain plant is actually carnivorous.

Hubble telescope takes one of the most detailed looks at neighboring Andromeda galaxy ever

Don’t Miss Aug. 12 Solar Eclipse And Perseid Peak

First-of-its-Kind Footage Shows the Ocean From a Whale Shark’s Perspective

While the Northern Hemisphere endured summer heat, Antarctica's Concordia Station fell to minus 119.4°F,

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'We are not giving up yet': Private mission to rescue NASA's Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it

Eyes to the Skies: August features partial eclipses of the sun and moon

IBM quietly cleared a quantum computing hurdle experts doubted

Your Mouth Could Hold the Secrets to a Longer and Healthier Life

What Doctors Want You to Know About Cervical Cancer Screening

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40,000-year-old bird figurines the size of a thumbnail discovered in German cave

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New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from 'ghost' ancestors

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Buck moon crowns the sky in midsummer brilliance

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‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly

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'Completely Transformed My Understanding': Scientists Uncover Hundreds of Hidden Structures Beneath The Amazon

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Astronomers observe companion star orbiting stellar giant Betelgeuse

Astronomers detect companion star orbiting Betelgeuse

7 ways to photograph the 2026 total solar eclipse

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Ancient human relative cannibalized both adults and children in a cave in Spain 850,000 years ago, fossils reveal

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Where To Get Safe Eclipse Glasses For The Aug. 12 Solar Eclipse

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2 meteor showers peak on the same night this week — how to get the best views, despite a near-full moon

Two distinct meteor showers are peaking simultaneously this week, posing a celestial challenge due to the high visibility of a near-full moon.

Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial kept secret: Report

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Meet Phantom Twist, a stealthy new drone that hides in plain sight by tricking your eyes

Scientists Finally Found the Universe’s Missing ‘Ordinary’ Matter

Astronomers have identified the long-elusive location of missing baryonic matter, revealing it exists as diffuse clouds surrounding galaxies.

James Webb Space Telescope looks back in time 4.4 billion years photo of the day for July 21, 2026

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery peering 4.4 billion years into the past, utilizing an Einstein-predicted phenomenon.

Mysterious 'little red dots' at the beginning time may finally have an explanation, thanks to newfound 'little blue companions'

Scientists may have found an explanation for mysterious 'little red dots' in the early Universe

Meteorite that crashed into New Jersey home contains building blocks of life, astronomers say

'Shared cosmic experience': 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Apophis could be visible to 90% of Earth's population during ultraclose 2029 flyby, new maps reveal

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Oops! Ancient Bronze Age shaman long assumed to be a man was actually a woman, DNA reveals

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Giant pit discovered by hiker on Google Maps confirmed to be 390 million-year-old meteor impact crater

A camper using Google Maps has identified a previously unknown 25km wide meteor impact crater in Canada dating back 390 million years.

Astronomers discover 1st atmosphere around a rocky Earth-like planet in the habitable zone

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'Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature': Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theory

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Scientists show that DNA can last for up to 50,000 years in Africa

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Mystery bidder buys T. rex nicknamed 'Gus' for a record $50 million

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6,000-year-old infant from ancient Mesopotamia shows one of the world's oldest signs of child abuse

Archaeologists in Syria have uncovered a 6,000-year-old infant with broken ribs, suggesting one of the earliest documented instances of child abuse.

Natural sugar discovered in cloud of dust and gas near centre of Milky Way

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Rescue robot of tomorrow may be a cockroach in scuba suit

Researchers are outfitting cyborg cockroaches with 3D-printed diving suits to assist in disaster search and rescue operations.

Dirty 'button' unearthed by metal detectorist turns out to be a rare 900-year-old coin from Norway's last Viking king, Magnus Barefoot

A metal detectorist in Norway discovered a 900-year-old silver coin initially mistaken for a dirty old button.

Physicists created a tiny universe where time emerged without a clock

Physicists at the University of Birmingham have simulated a 'mini-universe' where time emerges spontaneously without the need for a clock.

'What we found was striking': Physicists detect new kind of signal from a black hole's 'point of no return'

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'Astronomers have to revise estimates': The Milky Way may be larger, heavier and more lopsided than we realized

100,000 years ago, one of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa was stabbed in the face, analysis finds

Ancient Homo sapiens fossil found with face stab wound 100,000 years ago

Astronomers perplexed by new James Webb Space Telescope photos unveiling secrets of a galaxy 11 million lig...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured unprecedented images of a 'Centaur' galaxy, revealing the impact of cosmic collisions.

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Heart function linked to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's risk

Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab

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Cave finds reveal modern humans and Neanderthals may have shared long-term cultural continuity

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China releases first photo of an asteroid some consider Earth’s ‘quasi moon’

Both Pluto and Titan Share a Mystery Molecule That’s Never Been Seen Before

The James Webb telescope may have identified a previously unknown substance shared by the surfaces of Pluto and Titan.

Euclid telescope spots oldest quasars ever discovered, adding to "perplexing" space mystery

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Dark matter is thought to make up roughly 85 percent of all matter in the universe, yet after nearly four decades of increasingly sensitive searches — from deep underground detectors to space-based observations

New observations and mapping efforts are attempting to uncover the nature of dark matter, which constitutes roughly 85 percent of all matter in the universe.

NASA celebrates America's 250th birthday with red, white and blue snaps of the cosmos

NASA is commemorating the United States' 250th birthday with a themed gallery of astronomical imagery described as 'cosmic fireworks.'

The US is hooked on unregulated peptides. But are they effective, or even safe?

Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China's 'Great Green Wall' grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected an unexplained substance appearing on both Pluto and Titan.

Astronomers discover Earth’s new ‘next-door neighbor’

Hobbit-like human relatives may have been on a less advanced evolutionary path

New evidence suggests 'hobbit' hominins survived by scavenging meat left over by Komodo dragons, potentially altering our understanding of human evolution.