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Space.com

This region exists beyond the orbit of Neptune, the eighth and furthest planet from the sun. Mors-Somnus can therefore be used as a proxy to study the dynamic history of Neptune as well as other icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, also known as trans-Neptunian …

Space.com

Usually, the most thrilling black-hole news surrounds the biggest, baddest and most violent voids we can imagine. I’m talking about the supermassive black holes boasting billions of times the mass of the sun; the ones called quasars that eat up …

CNN

A chance discovery made in southern France has revealed a rare specimen — an almost complete dinosaur skeleton found connected from its hind skull to its tail. The massive fossil came to light in May 2022, after …

The New York Times

When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, scientists hoped it could do what it was built to do and take up-close images of Jupiter and Saturn. It did that — and much more. Voyager 1 discovered active volcanoes, moons and planetary rings, proving along the way …

Space.com

On April 8 this year, millions of people in northern Mexico, the U.S. and southeastern Canada will experience totality — darkness in the day and the chance to see the sun’s corona with the naked eye — yet few appreciate how rare and unique this event will …

Space.com

a large black and silver rocket stands on a seaside launch pad near sand dunes and. SpaceX’s third Starship megarocket stands stacked on the launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas.

BBC News

This spectacular visual phenomenon will see the Moon completely covering the Sun, casting a shadow on Earth and plunging areas along the eclipse’s path into temporary darkness. This celestial spectacle is expected to last for around four minutes …

NPR

A biotech company that hopes to resurrect extinct species said Wednesday that it has reached an important milestone: the creation of a long-sought kind of stem cell for the closest living relative of the woolly mammoth. “This is probably the most …

CNN

Scientists working in southwest England have found the oldest fossilized forest known on Earth, according to a new study. Dating back 390 million years, the fossils break the record held by a forest in New York state by 4 million years, reads a press …

Scientific American

An illustration of a large moon circling a gas-giant planet around a distant star. For the first time ever, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will search for exomoons—natural satellites of planets orbiting other stars. This artist’s concept shows a …