Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the Sun’s influence ends and interstellar space begins. The probes, launched in 1977, identified this boundary zone…
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Australia’s Buried Treasure: Rare Rocks Reveal Origins of a Critical Metal
Scientists have uncovered evidence that a newly identified niobium-rich deposit in central Australia formed during the early breakup of an ancient supercontinent. Unusual rocks found deep below central Australia are helping scientists trace the…
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12 ethereal images from the 2025 Northern Lights Photographer of the Year awards
Watching the aurora borealis (in the Northern Hemisphere) or aurora australis (in…
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What Renaissance readers left behind in haircare books
What if the pages of an old book could tell us who touched them, what medicines they made, and even how their bodies responded to treatment?
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Physicists Discover a Quantum System That Refuses To Heat Up
An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily life, doing work on something over and over usually makes it warmer. You can feel it when you rub your hands together,…
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ALMA datasets elucidate nearby galaxy NGC 1266's massive molecular outflow
By analyzing the archival data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has inspected the outflow of a nearby galaxy known as NGC 1266. Results of the new study, presented Dec. 11 on the…
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Physicists Crack a New Code To Explore Dark Matter’s Hidden Life
A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has remained one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology for almost a hundred years, shaping the universe while remaining…
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Glacier loss to accelerate, with up to 4,000 disappearing each year by 2050s
Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a fraction standing by the end of the century unless global warming is curbed, a study showed on Monday.
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Most distant supernova: James Webb sees a star explode at cosmic dawn
Astronomers from around the world have reached a major milestone in studying the early universe. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), they identified a supernova, the explosive death of a massive star, at a distance never observed before.
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Halley’s Comet, Great Conjunctions, And A Nail-Biting Close Approach: Astronomical Events To Look Forward To This Century
There’s an annual tradition of popular science articles looking forward to astronomical events to watch for in the coming year. There’s always at least one, and sometimes several, eclipses that might be worth traveling to, some meteor showers…
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