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? 3I/ATLAS, a newly discovered interstellar object, is traversing our solar system, sparking scientific curiosity. ? Its origins are speculated to be from the thick disk of our galaxy, suggesting it may be…

When scientists discover new prehistoric species, the fossils alone fail to conjure the creature in the flesh. It’s impossible to summon the entirety ancient shark from a single tooth, or some weird old rodent from a fragment of a jaw. This is…

Lightning has long terrified and fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike. For something so relatively common, the precise atmospheric events that give rise to a lightning strike have been…

In a stunning display, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently captured a lightning storm illuminating the skies above Singapore. The image, taken during the station’s orbit over Southeast Asia, shows intense bursts of…

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• Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and other telescopes have shown what appears to be a supermassive black hole forming right between two merging galaxies.

• There have been…

When it comes to meteor showers, the Perseids pop. It’s not just about the quantity of meteors (as many as 100 per hour) and their showy quality (fireballs!) but also their superb timing.

The annual shower hits its peak on warm, laid-back…

For the last 40,000 years, we (Homo sapiens) have lived alone – the last humans standing from a large and diverse group that, just 300,000 years ago, comprised at least nine species of walking, talking apes.

If you go further back in time…

Two meteor showers will peak at the same time in the early morning hours on Wednesday, a relatively uncommon astronomical occurrence caused by the Earth’s orbit passing through two comets’ debris trails.

The Southern Delta Aquariid and the…