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  • This artist’s impression shows Cha 1107-7626. Located about 620 light-years away, this rogue planet is about 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn’t orbit a star. It is eating up material from a disc around it and, using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered that it is now doing so at a rate of six billion tonnes per second –– the fastest ever found for any kind of planet. The team suspects that strong magnetic fields could be funnelling material towards the planet, something only seen in stars. When the infalling material reaches the planet it heats up its surface, creating a bright hot spot. The X-shooter spectrograph on ESO’s VLT detected a marked brightening in mid-2025, and found a clear fingerprint that this was caused by infalling gas. The observations show that the planet is now accreting matter about 8 times faster than a few months before.
    ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser
    Rogue planet has a record growth rate of 6.6 billion tons per second
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    Mitalipov Laboratory
    Scientists use human skin cells to create functional eggs, opening a door to new infertility treatments
  • Blue Jay, Animal Portrait. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A rare hybrid identified in a suburb of San Antonio, Texas, is the result of mating between a male blue jay and a female green jay.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas) in tree Starr, Texas, USA.
    Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images; Brian Stokes/University of Texas at Austin; Danita Delimont/Alamy Stock Photo
    A blue jay and a green jay mated, researchers say. Their offspring is a scientific marvel
  • Archeologist Kathleen Martinez and famed Titanic discoverer Bob Ballard uncovered the sunken landscape near the ruins of Taposiris Magna.  It is believed to be a crucial development in solving 2,000-year-old mystery of Queen Cleopatra VII of Egyptís Tomb.   With the discoveries of amphora, multiple anchors, a polished floor and towering columns, the team believe they have uncovered an ancient port, lost to the sea at Taposiris Magna.   (credit: National Geographic)
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    Archaeologists have uncovered a sunken ancient Egyptian port. Is it connected to Cleopatra?
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    Guanghui Zhao
    A skull unearthed in China challenges the timeline of human evolution, scientists say
  • An artist’s impression of Haven-1, currently under construction by California-based Vast Space, which plans to send it into orbit in May 2026. If the launch goes ahead, it will be the world’s first commercial space station.
    Vast
    The world’s first commercial space station is getting closer to launch
  • These photos and timelapse show NASA’s IMAP mission being loaded into the thermal vacuum chamber of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s X-Ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) in Huntsville, Alabama. IMAP arrived at Marshall March 18 and was loaded into the chamber March 19. IMAP will undergo testing such as dramatic temperature changes to simulate the harsh environment of space. The XRCF’s vacuum chamber is is 20 feet in diameter and 60 feet long making it one of the largest across NASA. The IMAP mission is a modern-day celestial cartographer that will map the solar system by studying the heliosphere, a giant bubble created by the Sun’s solar wind that surrounds our solar system and protects it from harmful interstellar radiation. Photos and video courtesy of Ed Whitman from Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. For more information, contact NASA Marshall’s Office of Communications at 256-544-0034.
    Ed Whitman/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Princeton
    What is the heliosphere? A new mission could unravel the mysteries of this complex cosmic environment
  • The video is believed to be the world’s first recorded and scientifically documented observation of  leopard sharks mating in the wild.
    Hugo Lassauce/UniSC/Aquarium des Lagons
    First ever recording of leopard sharks mating in the wild reveals ‘threesome’
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  • This artwork imagines the ultimate front-row seat for GW250114, a powerful collision between two black holes observed in gravitational waves by the US National Science Foundation LIGO. It depicts the view from one of the black holes as it spirals toward its cosmic partner. Ten years after LIGO's landmark detection of gravitational waves, the observatory's improved detectors allowed it to "hear" this celestial collision with unprecedented clarity. The gravitational-wave data enabled scientists to distinguish multiple subtle tones ringing out like a cosmic bell across the universe (imagined here as intertwining musical threads spiraling toward the center). Though only LIGO was online during GW250114, it now routinely operates as part of a network with other gravitational-wave detectors, including Europe's Virgo and Japan's KAGRA. Image credit: Aurore Simonnet (SSU/EdEon)/LVK/URI
    Aurore Simonnet (SSU/EdEon)/LVK/URI
    Black hole collision confirms decades-old predictions by Einstein and Hawking
  •  Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at BC Place on December 06, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
    Kevin Winter/Getty Images
    Scientists analyzed years of interviews with Taylor Swift to track how dialects evolve

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  • In 1922, American chemist, Thomas Midgley, Jr. discovered tetraethyl, an antiknock agent in gasoline, which led to the establishment of the ethyl gasoline industry. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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    Once celebrated, an inventor’s breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters — and the world is still recovering
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    3D Illustration Getty Images/NASA
    ‘Dyson spheres’ were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they’ve found potential evidence
  • KARS, TURKIYE - MAY 18: A view of moon, appearing in the sky in the evening hours in Kars, Turkey, on May 18, 2024. (Photo by Omer Tarsuslu/Anadolu via Getty Images)
    Omer Tarsuslu/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Why scientists say we need to send clocks to the moon — soon
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    Why axolotls seem to be everywhere — except in the one lake they call home
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  • NASA announces new class of astronauts candidates on September 22, 2025.
    NASA
    NASA selects 10 new astronauts as it chases bold plans for the moon and Mars
  • Repeating gamma-ray bursts are ‘unlike any other’ in 50 years, astronomers say
  • Two celestial events will tempt sky-gazers in some regions this weekend. Here’s what to know
  • Earth-like exoplanet could be habitable, and astronomers may know soon

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  • The ship's wheel sits on the lake bottom just off the King's stern. The top of the King's stern, including the pilot house below apart as a massive rush of air was forced backward when her iron ore cargo slid forward as she sank.
    Tamara Thomsen/Wisconsin Historical Society
    Elusive shipwreck found in Lake Michigan over 100 years after sinking
  • Oldest known evidence of human mummification discovered in Asia, scientists say
  • An unusual quartz-tipped tool killed a man 12,000 years ago. Scientists are puzzling over who wielded it
  • Ancient temple could reveal secrets of a lost society that predates the Inca Empire

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  • The chimpanzees ate around 4.5 kilograms of fruit a day.
    Aleksey Maro
    Chimpanzees may consume equivalent of 1 alcoholic drink a day from fermented fruit, study finds
  • Biotech firm announces ‘pivotal step’ in effort to bring back the dodo
  • Ant queen gives birth to two different species
  • New research, at odds with 2023 study, argues we’re not witnessing a sixth mass extinction event

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    Rudolf Hima
    Researchers spot rare evidence of how two baby pterosaurs died 150 million years ago
  • Dinosaur eggs from China found to be around 86 million years old, according to ‘atomic clock’ dating
  • Researchers unearthed skeleton of extinct ‘hypercarnivore’ that had a taste for dinosaurs
  • New dinosaur species with striking sail-like back discovered
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