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A California startup’s plan to launch thousands of mirrors into orbit has caused quite a stir among astronomers and wildlife experts. The company, Reflect Orbital, aims to maximize energy output from solar farms by redirecting sunlight…

An underwater videographer has just published mesmerizing footage of the world’s largest, longest, and heaviest known jellyfish species—a lion’s mane jelly.

“Several minutes into the dive, I noticed a long, thin tentacle trailing…

Every superhero — or antihero — needs a sidekick. And it turns out that Beetlejuice Betelgeuse does indeed have one! The red supergiant star found in the constellation Orion has captivated stargazers for millennia, and while scientists have…

Astronomers have discovered a 2,300-foot-wide (700 meters) asteroid hidden in the sun’s glare, and it’s whizzing through our solar system at a near record-breaking pace.

The skyscraper-size asteroid, named 2025 SC79, loops around the sun once…

Dark matter near the center of our galaxy is “flattened,” not round as previously thought, new simulations reveal. The discovery may point to the origin of a mysterious high-energy glow that has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade,…

In the vast, icy expanse of northern Greenland, a groundbreaking discovery offers a new perspective on the Arctic’s distant past. Researchers have uncovered evidence of a far warmer climate, one that defies the frozen landscape we know today….

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the CIA headquarters, just took a bizarre twist. Though cryptographers broke the first three passages in the 1990s, just a few years after artist…

Scientists analyzing 1,300-year-old human feces from the Cave of the Dead Children in Mexico have discovered that people often dealt with nasty intestinal infections more than a millennium ago.

“Working with these ancient samples was like opening…

A strange gamma-ray glow emanating from the heart of the Milky Way could be the long-sought fingerprint of dark matter particles annihilating each other, evidence suggests.

A new research effort involving simulations of Milky-Way-like…