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Cicadas in southern India have been found to start their dawn chorus with remarkable accuracy, timing their song to a precise level of light during the pre-dawn hours.

Researchers discovered that the insects begin singing when the sun is exactly…

There might be a huge planet lurking near one of the closest stars to Earth.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged a possible planet near Alpha Centauri A, a sun-like star that forms part of the triplet Alpha Centauri star group….

Jellyfish galaxies are rare cosmic sights where a spiral or disk galaxy trails a luminous tail of gas and new stars across space. That tail forms when the galaxy rams through hot cluster gas and loses its own fuel in a shimmering wake.

Astronomers…

You may have heard of ‘fibremaxxing’. The recent health trend has been popularised on social media platforms like TikTok and involves people increasing their daily fibre intake dramatically – often well beyond the recommended amount of…

The predawn hours of Aug. 8 present a perfect opportunity to see Jupiter’s four largest moons line up next to the “King of the Planets” as it voyages through the stars of the constellation Gemini.

Stargazers in the U.S. will see Jupiter rise…

One way scientists study planets is by looking at the minerals on their surfaces. They can tell us a lot about how worlds form.

Scientists have been looking at unusual layers of iron sulfates on Mars, and these layers may represent a whole new…

NASA has revealed the most detailed images yet taken of comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor that is currently barreling its way through our solar system.

The images, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have enabled astronomers to more…

If you were hoping to see some fireballs in the sky this summer, this might be the best time and place to do it.

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the biggest and best meteor showers on the calendar, is back and ready to put on a show. While the…

States in quantum superposition are notoriously fragile, but researchers in China have reported creating such a state that lasted for a whopping 23 minutes and 20 seconds. While this record-breaking result is exciting in itself, the team believes…