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This image is the sum of 86 observations added together, representing over three million seconds of Chandra observing time. It spans just about 60 light-years across, which is a veritable pinprick on the entire sky. The underlying image contains lower-, medium-, and higher-energy X-rays in red, green, and blue respectively. The annotations on the image show where Chandra has detected over 3,300 individual sources in this field of view over a 22-year timeframe.

Space Telescope

Gaze into the Milky Way’s black hole with NASA’s ‘back catalog’ of X-ray data

Scene from Bayeux tapestry showing Halley's comet

Halley’s comet may need a new, medieval name

Medieval portrait of Richard Rolle

Forgotten, priceless medieval book found in school library

Group of red kangaroos running in Australia

550-pound Ice Age kangaroos could still hop

Yellow bananas arranged against a blue background

Penis size may matter more to men than women

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s 2024 NIRCam image shows protostar EC 53 circled. Researchers using new data from Webb’s MIRI proved that crystalline silicates form in the hottest part of the disk of gas and dust surrounding the star — and may be shot to the system’s edges.

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James Webb Space Telescope solves a comet crystal mystery

Tree broken in half near house due to heavy snowfall

Ask Us Anything

Do trees really explode in extreme cold?

Four images side-by-side showing angles of a saxophone-inspired instrument called the Post Digital Sax

The 10 weirdest and wildest musical instruments of 2026

Pouring whiskey into glass from bottle near wooden barrel on table

Scottish distillery wants to bottle whisky in aluminum, not glass

Paleontologists excavating sandstone encased dinosaur fossils from parking lot dig site

Dinosaur bones found underneath parking lot in Dinosaur, Colorado

Canada and USA reenacting the war during 1812

British soldier’s long-lost memoir rediscovered in Cleveland

A seemingly serene landscape of gas and dust is hopping with star formation behind the scenes.

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Hubble spots three young stars going through growth spurts

Blockbuster video store exterior at night

How to make a Blockbuster VHS sleeve for any movie

A shark tooth next to a spoon used to excavate it from sand in Oman

In ancient Arabia, people dined on sharks and stingrays

This LOFAR DR2 image of J1007+3540 superimposed over an optical image by Pan-STARRS shows a compact, bright inner jet, indicating the reawakening of what had been a ‘sleeping’ supermassive black hole at the heart of the gigantic radio galaxy.

Black hole space volcano erupts after 100-million-year nap

Woman paying for something on laptop while holding credit card

Congress trying to make it easier to unsubscribe (again)

elon musk, game of thrones, queen elizabeth, barack obama

Wikipedia’s 25 most popular entries of all time

A sample of the dental remains excavated in Pontecagnano that date to the 7th-6th century BCE.

Iron Age teeth reveal the hidden lives of ancient Italians

Four desktop homescreens showing SETI@home software running

100 mystery sounds under review for signs of extraterrestrial life

Depiction of the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, Death, riding a mythical creature, presumably a winged lion. Below him is a personification of famine (Fames), pointing to her open mouth. The depiction was created in Erfurt in the mid-14th century; the connection to Neuses may be drawn due to the date – St. Mark’s Day – of the annual memorial procession leading to the mass grave. Source: Klassik-Stiftung Weimar

Medieval plague victims likely found in mass grave in Germany

White axolotl seen underwater

Endangered Species

Is it illegal to own an axolotl? It depends.

Peregrinen 4 quadcopter drone taking off from launch pad

Father and son reclaim Guinness World Record for fastest quadcopter drone

Diver underwater investigating Viking shipwreck

600-year-old Viking shipwreck is the largest of its kind

Close up of man's hands reaching into box of apples at orchard

Test your apple farming skills with this free video game

The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead star RXJ0528+2838. When a star moves through space it can push away nearby material creating a so-called bow shock, which in this image is glowing in red, green and blue. The colours represent hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, respectively. These shocks are usually produced by a strong outflow expelled from the star. However, in the case of RXJ0528+2838 –– a white dwarf with a Sun-like companion –– astronomers discovered that the shock wave can’t be explained by any known mechanism. Some hidden energy source, perhaps magnetic fields, could be the answer to this mystery.

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Dead star emits perplexing shock wave for 1,000 years

Group of ancient Roman whetstones discovered in Britain

800 ancient Roman blade sharpeners found in Britain

The tiny blooms of Dendrobium eruciforme, known as the caterpillar orchid due to its creeping habit and small size. © Andre Schuiteman RBG Kew

Zombie fungus, ‘living stones’ among favorite botany discoveries of 2025

Photograph of lightning inside storm cloud taken above Milan, Italy, at night aboard the ISS

International Space Station

Astronaut snaps spectacular photo of lightning above Italy

Hand holding TV remote in front of out of focus TV screen

A little TV after a long day is good for your brain

Both sides of one of the arrowheads analysed. The left-hand image shows the organic remains in which the arrowhead residues were identified. Photo: Marlize Lombard

World’s oldest poison-tipped arrow discovered in South Africa

Pint of beer next to a cheeseburger

Beer waste helps lab-grown meat taste meatier

Close up of Greenland shark with copepod attached to eye

Dissected Greenland shark eyeballs could help humans see forever

This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2,000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The dashed circle marks the peak of radio emission,which is where researchers focused their search for stars. Follow-up observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys found no stars within the cloud. The few objects that appear within its boundaries are background galaxies. Before the Hubble observations, scientists could argue that Cloud-9 is a faint dwarf galaxy whose stars could not be seen with ground-based telescopes due to the lack of sensitivity. Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows that, in reality, the failed galaxy contains no stars. [Image description: A region of space mostly filled with background galaxies, with one prominent star at upper left. A large blob of purple haze occupies much of the field. Within the purple region, an unremarkable area is outlined with a dashed white circle.]

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Mysterious space object is full of dark matter

African penguin chick close-up

Aquarium welcomes third endangered penguin chick in less than a month

Close up of hands playing chess, with white checkmating

Chess isn’t fair—so rearrange the pieces

Close up of microwave vacuum dried beet chips and hands reaching to grab them

Food scientists cook up healthier chips that don’t taste awful

Close up of yellow banana slug

An ode to slugs, the mascots of post-holiday laziness

Astronaut working inside International Space Station module

International Space Station

Tour the International Space Station in new NASA walkthrough

a global density map of the world's buildings

Browse a 3D map of the world’s 2.75 billion buildings

E-scooter on fire in safety demonstration video from CPSC

Cozy up (safely) to an e-scooter’s lithium battery yule log

Pair of African penguin chicks

Newborn African penguin named after a hot dog

A cluster of stars inside a large nebula. The clouds of gas and dust are predominantly bright red in colour and wispy, akin to flames. They are clumped in the bottom-left corner. Other clouds, deeper in the cluster behind many of the stars, appear pale pink. The stars are concentrated in the top half of the image and are mostly small, bright white and six-pointed. They cast blue light over the nebula. Other stars with very long spikes surrounding them lie in the foreground.

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James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes snap images of same nebula, 10 years apart

A pink octopus squid floating upside down spotted by MBARI researchers

Dive into 2025’s most stunning deep-sea wildlife encounters

3D scan cross-section of an ant

Weak ants conquered Earth using sheer numbers

NASA’s SPHEREx has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, which are invisible to the human eye but can be used to reveal different features of the cosmos. This image features a selection of colors emitted primarily by stars (blue, green, and white), hot hydrogen gas (blue), and cosmic dust (red). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Space Telescope

Explore NASA’s most detailed map of the night sky yet

3D printed Christmas tree made from ice

Physicists 3D-printed a Christmas tree made of ice particles

Artistic representation of the collision of two planetesimals in the circumstellar disc of the star Fomalhaut.

First-of-its-kind cosmic collision spotted 25 light-years from Earth

Swearing and smiling emojis side by side on blue background

Go ahead and swear—it’s good for your health

This artist's concepts shows a hypothesized event known as a superkilonova. A massive star explodes in a supernova (left), which generates elements like carbon and iron. In the aftermath, two neutron stars are born (middle), at least one of which is believed to be less massive than our Sun. The neutron stars spiral together, sending gravitational waves rippling through the cosmos, before merging in a dramatic kilonova (right). Kilonovae seed the universe with the heaviest elements, such as gold at platinum, which glow with red light.

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Two neutron stars may have formed the first known ‘superkilonova’

Water flowing through the Hamlin Lake Dam in Ludington Michigan.

2,500 ‘high-risk’ U.S. dams are sinking into the ground

A part of a fossilized mammal skull, with sediment in a tooth socket that turned out to be a nest built by a prehistoric bee.

Ancient bees laid eggs inside bones

This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera. Over nearly 20 years, HiRISE has helped scientists understand how the Red Planet’s surface is constantly changing.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snaps 100,000th image

A salt grain-sized microrobot on a human finger to illustrate size

Dancing robot is the size of a grain of salt

Young sad girl sitting alone at home on sofa listening to sad music on wireless headphones crying and wiping her nose with a paper tissue.

Pop music has gotten sadder over the last 50 years

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged an extremely large and symmetric protostellar jet at the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy in the forming cluster Sh2-284. From tip to tip, this protostellar jet is 8 light-years across, about double the distance from our Sun to its closest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri.

Space Telescope

Massive newborn star is firing two plasma jets at once

A thin sheet of plastic covered in transparent MOCHI film

Bubble wrap-like material could help insulate glass windows

Library aisle showing rows of books

Librarians can’t keep up with bad AI

Left lateral view of catalog number USNM PAL 803273, a Pachycephalosaurus skull, from the Late Cretaceous Period, Maastrichtian stage (approximately 68 to 66 million years ago), Hell Creek Formation, Perkins County, South Dakota. The skull is largely complete with missing areas restored, while the lower jaw - not photographed - is reconstructed. This specimen is from the Department of Paleobiology collections at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Catalog record EZID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a8ba3bb9-dcf1-437e-ba8c-d627cbdfaf3c

A ‘spectacular’ dinosaur dome heads for the Smithsonian

Close up of musician playing 3D printed carbon fiber cello

This 3D-printed cello puts a carbon fiber spin on a classic

Mosasaur eating prey in water with dinosaurs behind it

Mosasaurs may have terrorized rivers as well as oceans

close up of white lab rat inside cage

If offered, rats will use cannabis to deal with stress

Rhesus macaque bones in Roman animal cemetery grave

Roman generals gifted kittens and piglets to their pet monkeys

Soyuz spacecraft returning to Earth using parachute

International Space Station

NASA astronaut comes home after circling Earth 3,920 times

Tumbleweed inspired robot next to actual tumbleweed

Tumbleweeds inspire this rolling, resilient robot

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