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This mash-up of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals two galaxies mid-collision, with their spiral arms overlapping and bending toward their neighbors’ cores.
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Dec. 20, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Researchers say they have created the world’s first scalable atomic quantum processor that achieves record-breaking 99.99% fidelity.
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Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again.
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3I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object.
Everyone’s favorite interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, flew past Earth overnight, coming within about 168 million miles (270 million kilometers) of our planet.
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More than a dozen mummies of kids with facial tattoos were found at an archaeological site in Christian-era Nubia.
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A new high-power laser system will soon be sent to sea for its first tests under maritime conditions.
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Your guide to the best sights the night sky has to offer from Dec. 20, 2025, to Jan. 4, 2026 — and the gear you’ll need to see them.
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Here’s how to see the Ursid meteor shower, which peaks in dark skies close to a new moon this year.
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Analysis of latrine sediments at the Roman fort of Vindolanda has revealed that at least three parasites were widespread among Roman soldiers.
Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, reached its closest point to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday (Dec. 18 to 19), and it remains in a good viewing position tonight. Here’s how to see it.
NASA’s alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter.
Lava rubble at the bottom of the sea is acting like a giant “sponge” for carbon dioxide, ancient cores reveal.
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Giving immunotherapy earlier in the day can significantly extend patients’ survival, compared to giving treatment later in the day, a new study of lung cancer shows.
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Archaeologists have found the earliest DNA evidence to date of a father-daughter pairing.
An excavation at the City of David in Jerusalem unearthed a 1,300-year-old medallion decorated with a seven-branched menorah on each side.
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Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has enabled astronomers to map the unssen surface of the sun’s atmosphere for the first time.
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Astronomers traced a mysterious ‘scar’ of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our sun millions of years ago.
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Pumas in Patagonia, Argentina are eating penguins in a national park — and it’s changing how the big cats are interacting with each other.
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A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter’s moon Europa in 1998. The finding could have implications for a NASA spacecraft en route to the frozen world.
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These Anglo-Saxon accessories were recovered from the side of a hill in England and may be from a hoard, a ritual deposit or a collection of stolen items.
Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may look more like slush.
The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe’s most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James Webb telescope observations reveal.
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The human eye can only detect wavelengths in the visible light range, but a new imaging system will let us “see” infrared radiation using smartphones.
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Some of the victims at Pompeii were wearing woolen cloaks when they died, even though it was August, new research finds.
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A man with few risk factors unexpectedly experienced a stroke, and his daily energy drink habit may have been to blame.
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In this excerpt from North: The Future of Post-Climate America, Jesse M. Keenan looks at the complexities of “climate safe havens” — and the pushes and pulls that will lead people to relocate as the risks ramp up.
Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside rodent bones that were deposited by owls thousands of years ago.
Controlling immune cells’ internal clocks helped reduce inflammatory damage in conditions like heart attack and sickle cell disease, a mouse study found.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big Bang.
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A brain-scan study reveals key components of the brain’s navigation system, which may help us better understand early symptoms of dementia.
The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a “public calendar” and a roof for astronomical observation.
Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions.
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The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare “butterfly” crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure sports a pair of smooth, rocky wings, which were likely “fluidized” by buried Martian ice.
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The novel design for the new qubit uses the chemical element tantalum in tandem with a special silicon substrate, creating what researchers say are the most coherent superconducting qubits to date.
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The snuggly Bose QuietComfort headphones are now 51% at Amazon, and cheaper than they were during Black Friday.
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