The Greenland shark is one of the most mysterious animals in the ocean. Living in cold, deep waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic, this slow-moving giant can live for centuries.
Some are believed to be over 400 years old, making it the…
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The fate of the planet’s coastlines depends on how fast Antarctica’s ice sheets melt. We don’t know what’s coming | Antarctica
On one side of Dr Ben Galton-Fenzi’s view across the vast Totten ice shelf, the sun sat low on the Antarctic horizon. On the other, a full moon.
The ice shelf is “flat and white”, says Galton-Fenzi. “If there’s cloud around, you lose the…
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Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX’s Starship could transform astronomy by making space telescopes cheaper
Martin Elvis, Smithsonian Institution
After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit.
A month later, a…
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Japan Just Shut Down a Spacecraft That Cheated Death for 10 Years, Here’s What It Saw on Venus
Japan’s Akatsuki mission officially ended in September 2025 after more than a decade of operations and a final year of complete radio silence. Launched in 2010 by JAXA and operated by ISAS, the spacecraft was designed to study Venus’s…
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'Cosmic clock' reveals Australian landscapes' history and potential future – Phys.org
- ‘Cosmic clock’ reveals Australian landscapes’ history and potential future Phys.org
- A ‘cosmic clock’ in tiny crystals has revealed the rise and fall of Australia’s ancient landscapes The Conversation
- Krypton in zircon grains reveals…
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Poisoned weapons older than previously thought, new study shows
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Early human hunters didn’t just sharpen stone — they transformed simple projectiles into chemical weapons long before scholars expected. New analyses of ancient weapon fragments and residue show that people…
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180-Million-Year-Old Microbial Fossils Discovered in Deep-Sea Rocks
Faint ridges in Moroccan rock have revealed an ancient mystery: signs of microbial life deep below the sea surface, where sunlight never reached. These “wrinkle structures”, rare in rocks younger than 540 million years, were spotted in…
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Tiny earthquakes are revealing a dangerous secret beneath California
By closely tracking swarms of extremely small earthquakes, scientists are gaining new insight into a dangerous and complicated region off the Northern California coast. This area marks the meeting point of the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia…
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Nasa Artemis II: Watch as Nasa’s Artemis II rocket inches closer to launch pad – follow live
Artemis II: Why are they going to the Moon?published at 12:48 GMT
Pallab Ghosh and Alison Francis
Science correspondent and senior science journalistImage source, NASAImage caption, Mission specialists Jeremy Hansen and Christina…
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Back for Seconds: Evidence of Two Bursts of Star Formation in an Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy
Title: A Bimodal Metallicity Distribution Function in The Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II
Authors: Alice M. Luna, Alexander P. Ji, Anirudh Chiti, Joshua D. Simon, Daniel D. Kelson, Minsung Go, Guilherme Limberg, Ting S. Li, and…
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