On a beautiful night in May 2022, two astrophotographers camping near Lake Puma Yumco in Tibet witnessed something extraordinary after thunderclouds filled the once-clear skies overhead.

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Black holes might not be the cosmic dead ends astronomers have long believed them to be.

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How's the weather up there? On Mars, weather forecasts haven't always been right at our fingertips. Now, recent research from the University of Tokyo has upended what scientists thought they knew about the Red Planet's atmosphere.

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Lightning doesn't just strike downward; sometimes its effects reach thousands of kilometers into space.

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Thirty-four million years is a long time to wait for anything. It's longer than humans have existed as a species. In space, where things happen over billions of years, it might seem like a blink of an eye, but for a disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star, it's practically an eternity.

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When astronauts return from space missions with rashes, allergies, and weakened immune systems, the culprit might not be microgravity, but rather an environment that's too clean.

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The newest generation of radio telescopes – including the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and MeerKAT, a telescope in South Africa – is revealing incredibly faint cosmic objects, never before seen.

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For decades, something strange has lurked inside the icy giants of our solar system. Uranus and Neptune, distant blue worlds 1.7 billion miles from Earth, harbor magnetic fields that behave nothing like those of their planetary siblings.

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While the answer is not completely known, there are many intriguing and surprising possibilities. The options become even more complicated if you consider time as a dimension.

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Mars wasn't always the dusty red desert we know today. Billions of years ago, waves may have crashed against sandy beaches under an alien sky, while rivers carried sediments into a vast northern ocean.

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In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100-meter-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

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Three and a half billion years ago, Mars underwent a dramatic transformation. Its thick blanket of air thinned to almost nothing, its water disappeared, and the once-habitable world became a frozen desert.

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Four million times more massive than our Sun, the black hole at the Milky Way's center has revealed itself to be a restless giant.

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Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ferocious winds that accelerate to record-breaking speeds as they cross the planet’s scorching-hot dayside.

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When exploring outer space, the sharpness of our vision has always been limited by Earth's atmosphere and the physical size of our telescopes. But astronomers have now shattered these limitations by achieving the highest-resolution observations ever made from our planet's surface.

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We might have plenty of human-like neighbors among the stars after all, despite decades of scientific thinking about humanity's place in the universe suggesting otherwise.

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When Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi first spotted Ceres in 1801, he couldn't have imagined that this distant object would still be puzzling scientists over 220 years later.

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Scientists have just detected something unusual happening 3,000 miles beneath our feet. New research from an international study reveals that Earth's inner core, a ball of mostly iron roughly the size of Pluto, isn't behaving the way scientists thought.

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When the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope launched on July 1, 2023, to explore the dark universe, no one expected its first major discovery to come during routine testing.

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When stars have tantrums, they don't just get a little brighter, they blast out intense ultraviolet radiation that could make or break the chances for life on nearby planets.

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When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered into a distant galaxy cluster, it found something previous telescopes had missed: a question mark written in starlight.

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In the search for extraterrestrial life, few things are more valuable than a scoop of dirt, provided it's from the right place. NASA's Perseverance rover has now collected such samples from Mars' Jezero Crater, a location specifically chosen for its potential to reveal whether the Red Planet once harbored life, according to a new international study.

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At any given moment, thousands of pieces of space debris orbit Earth, and some are heading back toward us. According to new research, there's a 26% annual probability that one of these massive objects will reenter Earth's atmosphere over a region with high air traffic density.

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We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace. Yet the age-old question remains unanswered: are we alone?

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Scientists analyzing pristine samples from asteroid Bennu have discovered an extraordinary sequence of salt minerals that tells the story of liquid water's role in the early solar system.

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When Apollo astronauts first walked on the Moon, they stepped onto what many believed was a geologically dead world.

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How did Pluto end up with its largest moon, Charon? Like many entanglements, it started with a kiss.

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Five hundred light-years from Earth, a distant exoplanet experiences weather patterns that make Earth's most violent hurricanes look like gentle breezes. On WASP-127b, supersonic winds from the fastest planetary jet stream ever measured tear around the equator at 33,000 kilometers per hour, according to a study from the University of Göttingen.

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Astronomers have made a perplexing discovery that's pushing the boundaries of what we know about mysterious cosmic signals.

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Thirteen billion years ago, a small galaxy did something peculiar — it stopped making stars. Then, after an extended cosmic intermission lasting billions of years, it started again. This pattern, discovered in a galaxy called Leo P, is providing astronomers at Rutgers University with new insights into how the earliest and smallest galaxies managed to survive the universe's turbulent youth.

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Our cosmic neighborhood is revealing an uncomfortable and unexplainable truth: the universe seems to be breaking the speed limit set by our best physics models.

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A new study reveals that the Sun may give us advance notice before unleashing powerful solar flares, potentially providing crucial hours of warning before these massive eruptions disturb Earth's technology and communications systems.

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News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We are often told that we might discover it any time now.

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A puzzling atmospheric phenomenon that has long intrigued aurora watchers and scientists has finally been explained by researchers at the University of Calgary.

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By looking at light from distant exploding stars called supernovas, in 1998 astronomers discovered the universe isn’t just expanding – its expansion is speeding up. But what’s behind this acceleration? Enter dark energy. It’s one of the most debated and intriguing missing puzzle pieces of modern physics – a mysterious…

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Scientists may have finally solved a decades-old mystery behind why the stars in the Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, move so unusually fast.

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The carbon atoms in your body have likely traveled much farther than you have, possibly hundreds of thousands of light-years into space and back.

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Scientists searching for signs of life beyond Earth have traditionally focused on stars similar to our Sun or smaller, cooler stars. However, new research suggests another category of stars deserves attention: F-type stars, which are hotter and more massive than our Sun.

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Every day, several times a day, massive explosions of radio waves burst forth from distant corners of the universe, each carrying more energy than our sun produces in a month. While thousands of these fast radio bursts have been detected, their origins have remained elusive -- until now.

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In an exciting astronomical discovery, researchers have identified a new category of stellar fireworks that bridge the gap between two well-known types of exploding stars.

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It took 30 years to build, but in three short years of operation, JWST has already revolutionized our view of the cosmos.

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While not definitively disproving the existence of dark energy, the research presents compelling evidence for an alternative explanation that could reshape fundamental cosmology.

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have uncovered amazing insights about an object called Chiron.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has caught supermassive black holes acting like cosmic kill switches.

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4 billion years ago, Mars might have looked a lot more like Earth than we thought - not on the surface, but deep underground.

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A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case, it was the start of an idea that could reshape how scientists think about the history of the Moon. The three of us were all interested…

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In a significant scientific advancement that bridges space exploration and neuroscience, researchers have discovered that human brain cells develop differently in the weightless environment of space compared to Earth.

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An astronomer explains that the stars we can see in the night sky are a lot closer and live a lot longer than you would think.

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A groundbreaking study from a team at the University of Texas at Austin offers a tantalizing new origin story for the universe's dark matter.

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Scientists don’t have evidence of anything beyond our known universe. However, some predict that there could be multiple universes.

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