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For over six decades, the origin of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), the highest-energy particles in the universe, has perplexed scientists. Despite their discovery in the 1960s, a comprehensive explanation for these energetic particles…

A major new study may help solve a long-standing puzzle in planetary science: why the meteoroids that are most likely to carry the building blocks of life so rarely make it to Earth.

Although carbon-rich asteroids are widespread in our solar…

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NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday.

Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an unusual…

In 2020, a group of scientists came up with an explanation for strange inconsistencies in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. They suggested that ice-encrusted mushballs rain down during intense…

Genetic technologies soon gave him a way to do so. During the first decade of his studies of neuronal development, Ginty amassed a library of genes specific to different touch neuron types. Around 2007, he began genetically engineering mice…

A dramatic and cataclysmic event occurred over 5 million years ago, when water from the Atlantic Ocean surged through the Strait of Gibraltar, filling the Mediterranean Sea. This event, known as the Zanclean megaflood, is considered one of the…

Beneath the waves of Lake Huron lie clues to the region’s prehistoric past, including the oldest-known human evidence of a lost civilization in the Great Lakes. Scientists are uncovering hunting camps and ancient tools from 10,000 years ago,…

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China has successfully established the world’s first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) in the Earth-moon region of space, connecting them with stable inter-satellite measurement and…

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This “twin” of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, challenging our theories of…