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About 307 million years ago, Tyrannoroter heberti emerged as one of Earth’s largest land…

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Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have used rare total solar eclipses to gain unprecedented insights into the turbulent structures of the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. This discovery, resulting from over a decade of…

A hidden lake beneath Turkey’s southern coastline has revealed its underwater formations in unprecedented detail. Inside Gilindire Cave in Mersin, a specialized diving team documented stalactites, stalagmites and mineral structures…

The Moon passed directly between the Sun and Earth on 17 February 2026, creating an annular solar eclipse. Because the Moon was at a more distant point along its elliptical orbit around Earth, it didn’t entirely cover the Sun and left a…

For decades, cosmologists have largely agreed on one ending: a Big Freeze. Driven by dark energy, space itself expands at an accelerating rate, pushing galaxies farther apart until stars burn out and the universe grows cold and…

The cliff face at Santa Cruz beach holds its secrets in layers. For 150 million years, a cluster of sandstone-encased eggs lay buried within it, undisturbed through the opening of the North Atlantic and the entire span of human history. When…

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A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.
The star cluster in question is called Palomar 5. It’s a stellar stream that stretches out across 30,000…