In a groundbreaking study that challenges long-standing dogmas in microbiology, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence for the widespread existence of persistent virulent phages within bacterial populations. For decades, the scientific…
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Fusion Reactors Could Be Accidental Dark Matter Factories, Says New Study
A new theoretical study, published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, suggests that fusion reactors, currently built to generate clean energy, might inadvertently produce exotic particles believed to be part of dark matter. These…
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What is the origin of the letters used in star classification?
From the December 2025 issueStellar spectral types originally followed alphabetical order, but as astronomers observed more stars, some categories changed.

Armchair astronomers sought to hunt for stars being torn apart by black holes – Homepage
By Jonathan McCambridge, Press Association
Volunteers are being sought for an online challenge to help find stars being torn apart by black holes.
Astronomers at Queen’s University Belfast and the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands are seeking…
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12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025
2025 was a very busy year for spaceflight, for better and for worse.
We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year, including the first-ever fully successful private moon landing and the official arrival of Blue Origin’s
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NASA Boosts Moon Plans with Full Orbit Test of Starship Flight 11
SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. The company designs its Starship and Falcon vehicles here before flight testing. Credit: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 Space fans in October got another wild night out of Texas, when Starship…
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What will a human mission to Mars look like?
NASA astronauts work on the surface of Mars accompanied by a robotic helicopter and rover as imagined in this artist’s illustration. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Since Viking 1 landed in 1976,…
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A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science
But the ones that are about nature, about natural disasters, are based on very keen observations and repeated observations of the landscape. They also can contain details that are recognizable to scientists who study…
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How Rare is Our Interstellar Dating Partner of 2025, 3I/ATLAS? – Avi Loeb – Medium
- How Rare is Our Interstellar Dating Partner of 2025, 3I/ATLAS? Avi Loeb – Medium
- Wobbling Jets of 3I/ATLAS Based on New Hubble Telescope Images from December 12 and 27, 2025 Avi Loeb – Medium
- NASA Saw an Interstellar Comet From a Viewpoint No…
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