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It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic swelling and devouring event akin to a predator eating its prey. New observations, however, tell a very different story.

Data from NASA’s James Webb Space…

The Intermountain West is a dinosaur nerd’s dream because it’s such a hotspot for fossils. Some of the most…

Every museum has a “grab list”. It is an inventory of the objects to be saved should the worst happen. If a fire starts amid the papyruses, if you only have minutes before the tapestries are toast, what do you take? Answering that question is…

A previously dormant supermassive black hole in the galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located roughly 300 million light-years from Earth, has stunned astronomers by bursting into life with a series of intensely powerful X-ray eruptions.

Detected first in…

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In the early 1970s Princeton University astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker was puzzling over telescope observations of…

The discovery of the most complete fossil of Mixodectes pungens to date provides key insights into the post-dinosaur diversification of mammals and their evolutionary connection to primates and humans.

Unearthed in New Mexico and dating…

Deep beneath the ice of East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land, scientists have identified a vast gravitational anomaly that could mark the site of one of the most dramatic collisions in Earth’s history. What first appeared to be a subtle dip in the…

In the early morning hours of February 19, 2025, a bright object streaked through the skies above western Europe. The mysterious, flaming hunk of metal traveled for several hours before…