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Breathtaking Lunar Sunset Images May Unravel a Long-Standing Mystery

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A private U.S. lander has captured striking high-definition images of a lunar sunset, offering NASA a new opportunity to investigate the mysterious haze first observed on the Moon in the 1960s. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, which released the images on Tuesday, recently became the first private company to land a robotic spacecraft upright on the Moon. […]

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New Heavy Metal Molecule May Unveil Secrets of Nuclear Waste Processes

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Since its first synthesis in a post-WWII American lab in 1949, berkelium has stood out on the periodic table, defying quantum mechanics by adopting an extra positive charge that its relatives typically avoid. Now, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory—berkelium’s birthplace—have successfully bonded this elusive element with carbon, creating a rare organometallic complex. This breakthrough

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Stranded NASA Astronauts Joyfully Welcome Rescue Crew

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SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, paving the way for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to finally return home after more than nine months in space. The Crew-10 mission, which launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday evening, reached the ISS approximately 29 hours later.

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NASA Rover Zaps Martian Rocks, Uncovers Ancient Mystery

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Mars’ surface rocks have been quietly preserving secrets about the planet’s past. The unusual mineral composition of pale rocks in Jezero Crater indicates they formed under extremely warm and wet conditions, challenging previous assumptions about Mars’ history. “On Earth, these minerals develop in regions with heavy rainfall and warm climates or in hydrothermal environments like

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Have We Finally Seen the Universe’s First Stars?

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Long before stars illuminated the cosmos, the Universe existed in a vast sea of hydrogen and helium. Only when these gases clumped together under immense pressure did the first stars ignite, forging heavier elements in their fiery cores. While scientists have long theorized about these early stars—known as Population III stars—no one has ever seen

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Supernova explosions may have influenced Earth’s evolutionary history.

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Astrophysicists have taken a forensic approach to a cosmic mystery, tracing radioactive elements on the seafloor back to potential supernova explosions. Their findings suggest a possible link between these cosmic events and evolutionary changes in viruses within an African lake. The key evidence is iron-60, a radioactive isotope found in significant amounts on the seafloor.

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Chance of ‘City Killer’ Asteroid Striking Earth Drops to 0.001%

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The likelihood of a football field-sized asteroid striking Earth in 2032 has dropped significantly to just 0.001 percent, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Initially, the asteroid set a record for the highest impact probability ever recorded—3.1 percent by NASA and 2.8 percent by the ESA—prompting heightened monitoring from the planetary defense community. As

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Watch Live: NASA Launches a Space Telescope That May Redefine the Universe’s Origins

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NASA is preparing for an exciting dual-mission launch featuring SPHEREx, a space telescope designed to uncover the universe’s history and search for life’s building blocks, and PUNCH, a mission that will study the Sun’s outer layers and solar wind. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry both missions into space from Space Launch Complex 4

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AI Breakthrough Uncovers Hidden Signals in the Universe

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A newly developed AI-driven tool is transforming how scientists process vast amounts of data from the LIGO gravitational wave observatory. Without requiring human input, it identifies environmental noise sources—such as earthquakes and ocean waves—that interfere with signal detection, significantly enhancing data clarity. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have pioneered a machine-learning system that

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