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Springtime on Mars brings frost avalanches, gas geysers and explosions (photos)

Instead of chilled glasses and champagne bubbles to ring in the New Year, how about gassy geysers and frosty avalanches? That's exactly what you can expect as the Martian New Year begins on the Red Planet with the onset of spring across its Northern ...

How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'

"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where the two bodies only temporarily merge before re-separating!" Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, ...

'Dinosaur highway' from 166 million years ago is unearthed

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

Experts from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham counted four sets of extensive tracks at the site left by sauropod dinosaurs, most likely four Cetiosaurus — long-necked herbivores — the biggest of which measured 60 feet in length.

Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of mysterious repeating radio bursts from space

We know some repeating radio signals come from a kind of neutron star called a radio pulsar, which spins rapidly (typically once a second or faster), beaming out radio waves like a lighthouse. The trouble is, our current theories say a pulsar spinning only ...

SpaceX aims to launch 1st Starlink satellites of 2025 today, and you can watch live

SpaceX is set to launch the first batch of its internet satellites this year from Florida's Space Coast today (Jan. 6). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of the Starlink spacecraft is targeted to liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday ...

A treasure trove of unseen stars beyond the 'Dragon Arc'

Abell 370, a galaxy cluster located nearly 4 billion light-years away from Earth features several arcs of light, including the "Dragon Arc" (lower left of center). These arcs are caused by gravitational lensing: Light from distant galaxies far behind ...

An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes

For a microbe called SAR11, the most abundant bacteria in the ocean, the researchers found that the nighttime snack acts as a relaxant of sorts, forcing the bacteria to slow down their metabolism and effectively recharge for the next day.

How astronomers discovered 44 new stars in a distant galaxy

ABC News

ABC News

The most powerful telescope ever put into space has made a historic discovery. ByJulia Jacobo. January 6, 2025, 10:43 AM.

A new way to determine whether a species will successfully invade an ecosystem, including the human GI tract

The researchers created their formula based on analysis of hundreds of different scenarios that they modeled using populations of soil bacteria grown in their laboratory. They now plan to test their formula in larger-scale ecosystems, including forests.

In 'groundbreaking' study, astronomers detect record number of stars in distant galaxy

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Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to spot 44 stars halfway across the universe - a record number of individual stars detected so far away. · Gravitational lensing unveils historic number of distant stars.