Scientists have potentially solved what many consider physics' most challenging problem – reconciling Einstein's theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, without adding any new parameters to physics.

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The gold in your wedding ring may have come from a star’s explosive death. For decades, scientists have hunted for the factories that produce the universe's heaviest elements, and now they've found an unexpected one: magnetar giant flares, cosmic explosions that release more energy in a millisecond than our Sun does in 100,000 years.

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After years of development, researchers at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have fired up their newest tool, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), and captured its first images of our sun.

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Mars once breathed carbon in and out just like Earth does today. NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered evidence that the Red Planet had its own version of Earth's carbon cycle.

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Scientists have spotted what appears to be a fully-formed spiral galaxy from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

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Earth's Northern Lights typically dance near the poles, but 41,000 years ago, they lit up skies over North Africa and Australia.

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For decades, astronomers believed all compact objects like neutron stars and black holes received violent "natal kicks" during their formation. That theory just suffered a fatal blow.

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Astronomers may have detected the strongest evidence thus far of alien life beyond our solar system.

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Scientists think our cosmos might be turning like a merry-go-round, potentially fixing one of astronomy's biggest headaches.

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Mars played by different rules than Earth when forming its magnetic field. Rather than generating magnetism with a solid core surrounded by liquid—Earth's approach—the Red Planet likely created its ancient magnetic shield with an entirely molten core.

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In the cold, swirling clouds above Jupiter's poles, scientists have spotted something odd: dark, oval-shaped vortices visible only in ultraviolet light that come and go like ghosts.

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Was there ever water on Mars? Scientists have pinpointed when water last flowed through Martian rocks with unprecedented precision.

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NASA wants to put boots on Mars in the coming decades. But before the first astronauts take that historic step, scientists are warning about an overlooked threat that could derail these ambitious plans.

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In our quest to answer whether we're alone in the universe, astronomers are preparing for a major advancement: new space telescopes capable of scanning distant worlds for signs of habitability and possibly life itself. But what happens if these ambitious missions find nothing?

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Just 160 light years from Earth, two dead stars are dancing toward destruction.

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The universe's first black holes should be ravenous beasts, growing as quickly as possible. At least that's what most astronomers thought.

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What happens when you send heart cells to space? They come back transformed.

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Astronomers have spotted a cosmic rebel breaking the rules of the early universe. At a time when light couldn't easily travel through space due to a thick fog of neutral hydrogen, one galaxy managed to carve out its own bubble of clear space.

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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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