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  • This photo taken on Nov. 17, 2022 shows the Leonid meteor shower pictured at the seaside of Vladivostok, Russia. (Photo by Guo Feizhou/Xinhua via Getty Images)
    Guo Feizhou/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images
    The Leonid meteor shower is peaking early this week. Here’s what to know
  • This artist’s impression shows a coronal mass ejection (CME) around another star. We see these eruptions coming often from the Sun. During a CME, massive amounts of material are flung out from our star, flooding the surrounding space. These dramatic expulsions shape and drive space weather, such as the dazzling auroras we see on Earth, and can chip away at the atmospheres of any nearby planets.
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    Solar storms can trigger auroras on Earth. This star’s explosion could destroy a planet’s atmosphere
  • The Yuka mammoth on display in a frozen collection.
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    Oldest sequenced RNA reveals details about a mammoth’s final moments 40,000 years ago
  • One of the newly described toad species, Nectophrynoides luhomeroensis
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    Newly identified species of Tanzanian tree toad leapfrog the tadpole stage and give birth to toadlets
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a non-invasive technique that measures brain activity, showing multiple horizontal views of the brain, arranged from bottom to top.
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    Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology
  • Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945), sitting on the edge of a desk at his Berghof residence, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany, during World War II, circa 1940. (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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    Researchers say they verified and sequenced Hitler’s DNA. What they discovered is a controversial bombshell
  • A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launches on NASA's EscaPADE mission, which is carrying two satellites to orbit Mars, from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., November 13, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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    Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches landmark Mars mission in New Glenn rocket’s first big test
  • The aurora australis, also known as the southern lights, glowed over the waters of Brighton Beach in Dunedin, New Zealand, on November 13.
    Sanka Vidanagama/AFP/Getty Images
    Millions saw unexpected northern lights, as a wild solar storm unfolded across the world
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  • California-based TransAstra is testing an inflatable “Capture Bag”that comes in different sizes and is intended to catch asteroids for mining, as shown in this artist’s concept.
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    A giant inflatable bag could catch asteroids and space junk
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    Ancient eggshells shed new light on crocodiles that hunted prey from trees

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  • Pilot Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in and airplane in circa 1936. (Photo courtesty Library of Congress/Getty Images)
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    An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?
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  • Jared Isaacman at a confirmation hearing back in April.
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    A plan written by Trump’s NASA pick was leaked. Here’s what to know about ‘Project Athena’
  • Landmark Mars mission and first big test for Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket is delayed by weather
  • Why an unprecedented NASA mission is set to take off on a winding journey to Mars
  • Largest observed flare from a black hole unleashes the light of 10 trillion suns

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  • This animation proviced by Itiner-e shows a recently discovered milestone along a mountain road in the rough Cilicia area of Turkey.
    Itiner-e
    Stunning map of ancient roads will give you a good reason to think about the Roman Empire more often
  • Oldest and biggest Maya temple was built to depict the cosmos
  • Scientists are one step closer to testing ancient skeletons for pregnancy
  • Vulture nests in Spain reveal a centuries-old sandal and other stunning cultural artifacts

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  • The researchers designed a maze to test bees' ability to distinguish between long and short flashes of light.
    Alex Davidson/Queen Mary University
    Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects
  • Over 40,000 US troops have been lost at sea. Scientists are tracking invisible clues to find them
  • Orcas seen hunting great white sharks to eat their livers in drone footage recorded in Mexico
  • Tomatoes in the Galápagos appear to be evolving backward. Here’s what it could mean

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  • Examples of caudal vertebrae with healing fractures in the neural spines/spinous processes, suggesting that an external force had pressed on top of them.
    Filippo Bertozzo/iScience
    Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex
  • ‘Dueling dinosaurs’ fossil forces a radical rethink of T. rex remains
  • New research upends theory that Indigenous Australians hunted large animals to extinction
  • 66 million-year-old dinosaur ‘mummy’ skin was actually a perfect clay mask
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