Bacteriophages — viruses that prey on bacteria — are nature’s tiniest predators. On Earth, their lives are…
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Viruses Behave Totally Differently in Space and It Could Help Us Treat Superbugs on Earth
The International Space Station photographed above the Earth from the space shuttle Atlantis in 2011. Credit: NASA. -
What is below Earth, since space is present in every direction?
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the…
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The evolutionary upside of same-sex sex among primates – The Washington Post
- The evolutionary upside of same-sex sex among primates The Washington Post
- Ecological and social pressures drive same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates Nature
- Can animals be gay? Yes, and loads of them are, experts find PinkNews
- Same-sex…
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NASA launches Pandora telescope, taking JWST’s search for habitable worlds to a new level
On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.
Exoplanets are worlds that orbit…
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Strange discovery offers 'missing link' in planet formation: 'This fundamentally changes how we think about planetary systems' – Live Science
- Strange discovery offers ‘missing link’ in planet formation: ‘This fundamentally changes how we think about planetary systems’ Live Science
- The Galaxy’s Most Common Planets Have a Strange Childhood Universe Today
- Astronomers Weigh “Cotton…
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NASA offering Artemis II 'boarding passes' ahead of space launch – newscentermaine.com
- NASA offering Artemis II ‘boarding passes’ ahead of space launch newscentermaine.com
- Nasa’s mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad for Artemis II mission BBC
- Nasa readies its most powerful rocket for round-the-moon flight The Guardian
- Why…
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China conducts research on evolution of far side of Moon and samples from Chang’e-6 spacecraft
Scientists from Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG), Chinese Academy of Scienceshave now provided new insights using high-precision potassium isotope analysis of samples collected from the Moon’s far side…Continue Reading
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Giant iron bar found in the Ring Nebula may be a destroyed planet
Have you ever seen a cloud made of iron? You may not believe it, but deep inside a nebula that astronomers have studied for centuries, researchers have uncovered a massive bar-shaped cloud made almost entirely of iron atoms.
This glowing…
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Elon Musk unveils plans to take humanity to the Moon and Mars
Elon Musk embraced a video praising the starship, Space X’s 120-meter reusable…
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The Sky Today on Sunday, January 18: Catch Caroline’s Rose – Astronomy Magazine
- The Sky Today on Sunday, January 18: Catch Caroline’s Rose Astronomy Magazine
- This Week’s Sky at a Glance, January 16 – 25 Sky & Telescope
- January night skies one of the best months for Saskatchewan stargazing 980 CJME
- From a planetary parade…
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