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Upgraded ‘Severe’ Northern Lights Alert For 25 States Thursday

NOAA has upgraded its aurora forecast, with strong to severe geomagnetic storms possible Thursday and Friday, raising Northern Lights chances across 25 U.S....

NASA's Mars MAVEN Probe Is Dead

NASA has declared that the MAVEN mission has ended after losing contact with its probe six months ago.

REAL STARDUST? 🌠 The European Space Agency has shared the first-ever chemical fingerprint it captured when the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS exited the solar system after swinging around the Sun. (📷: European Space Agency/IG)

Cannibal ‘supergiant’ microbe found hunting and devouring members of own species

Scientists have documented for the first time a microbe that drastically transforms its size, shape, and behaviour into a cannibalistic "supergiant" that...

Surprising New Study Challenges a Century-Old Theory of Habit Formation

A new study challenges the long-held idea that habits form only through slow, gradual repetition.

Photoexcitation flips 2D moiré devices from metals to insulators in ultrafast test

Quantum materials, materials with properties that are governed by the laws of quantum mechanics describing many-body interactions, have proved promising for...

Meteorite found in Sahara desert may be 1st evidence of lost solar system world

A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert contains evidence of a long-lost moon-size world that existed just a few million years after the solar...

Venus And Jupiter To Almost Touch After Sunset In Close Conjunction

In one of the year's most striking naked-eye celestial events, Venus and Jupiter will appear to come within just 1.6 degrees of each other after sunset on...

Stonehenge Altar Stone's epic transportation across ancient Britain detailed in new study

New research by Curtin University has revealed how one of Stonehenge's most mysterious stones was likely transported hundreds of kilometers across Britain...

ExoMars rover targets vast bed of clay in search for life

In the region where the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will search for signs of life, clay deposits extend beyond previous estimates, a new study finds.

Scientists discover a quantum effect that could eliminate batteries

Researchers have discovered how microscopic imperfections and atomic vibrations can be used to control a powerful quantum effect in an advanced material.

Intelligence in an insect: Bumblebees break new ground with timing skills that baffle researchers

Science News: For years, scientists believed that only humans and a handful of vertebrates could tell the difference between short and long durations,...

NASA's Webb detects methane and strange chemistry on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered unusual chemistry in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, including the first direct detection of methane on a...

A Moonlit Earth as Seen From Artemis II

An astronaut's photo, taken en route to the Moon, reveals our planet and its place in space in a novel way.

Scientists say the gold in wedding rings, teeth, and family heirlooms was forged in cosmic catastrophes long before our sun existed

The wedding band on a human finger is older than the Sun. So is the gold filling in a back molar, the chain on a great-grandmother's pendant, and the...

Scientists say the oxygen you just breathed in was once the deadliest poison on the planet, released by tiny microbes that accidentally wiped out most of the life around them in what geologists call the Great Oxidation Event

The oxygen sustaining every breath you take began as industrial waste from microbes that didn't know they were killing almost everything alive.

There is more freshwater locked inside the rocks of Earth's mantle than in every river, lake, and surface reservoir on the planet combined, hidden in a mineral called ringwoodite hundreds of miles beneath your feet

Beneath the surface oceans, rivers, and lakes that define Earth's hydrology, a single mineral phase in the transition zone may hold a volume of water that...

NASA releases stunning image of ‘strong solar flare’

With enough intensity, solar flares can disturb GPS and communications signals.

In 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov stepped outside Voskhod 2 for the first spacewalk in history, and his suit ballooned so badly in vacuum that he had to bleed oxygen through a valve to fit back inside before orbital darkness

On 18 March 1965, a 30-year-old Soviet Air Force pilot named Alexei Leonov opened the hatch of an inflatable airlock on Voskhod 2 and became the first human...

UPDATE: Aurora forecast for Vt., NY, and NH, Thursday night due to ‘G3′ geomagnetic storm

The northern lights could put on a show across the region Thursday night into early Friday morning, with a strong geomagnetic storm expected to push the...