“Cereal box-sized satellite shares first images of stars while searching for life on exoplanets.”

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Accessed on 15 March 2026, 1338 UTC.

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Cereal Box-Sized Satellite Shares First Images of Stars While Searching for Life on Exoplanets

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Did the T. rex Actually Evolve in America? A 74-Million-Year-Old Shin Bone Suggests It May Have

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Intense Space Weather Forces NASA’s Van Allen Probe Back to Earth Nearly a Decade Early

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A Massive Pliocene Crocodile May Have Hunted Lucy and Other Early Hominins, 3 Million Years Ago

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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Packed With Alcohol — Indicating That It Formed Beyond Our Solar System 

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Ancient Plant Viruses Took Root in Eurasia Before the Last Ice Age

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Ancient DNA Reveals a Pre-Inca Trade Network That Carried Parrots Alive Across the Andes to Coastal Peru

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Record-Breaking Neutrino Detected in the Mediterranean in 2023 May Have Come From Blazars

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A Meteorite Burst Through Ann Hodges’ Roof in 1954 and Struck Her Mid-Nap — Leaving a Large Bruise and Making History

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A 25-Inch Crocodile Relative Walked on Two Legs in Late Triassic Forests 225 Million Years Ago

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Won’t Strike the Moon in 2032, Negating the Chance of a Violent Lunar Impact

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U.S. Public Reaction to Daylight Saving Time Turns Sharply Negative in the Fall

“The Sun’s quietest moments matter just as much as its violent outbursts.”

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Accessed on 04 March 2026, 1325 UTC.

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275-Million-Year-Old Fossil With a Twisted Jaw Reveals an Unexpected Tetrapod

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The Sun’s Quietest Moments Matter Just as Much as Its Violent Outbursts

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These Amber Fossils Offer a “Snapshot of Life on Earth Millions of Years Ago”

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The Launch Date of Artemis II Has Been Postponed Again — This Is Why

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Tiny Fossil Teeth in Colorado Expand the Range of the Earliest Known Primate

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Giant Spiderweb Formations on Mars Contain Ancient Evidence of the Planet’s Waterlogged Past 

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Water Bears Struggle in Simulated Martian Soil, But a Simple Rinse Changes Everything

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How Artificial Moon Dust Helps Us to Build the First Long-Term Lunar Bases

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Largest ALMA Image Ever Spans 650 Light-Years, Revealing the Chaotic Heart of the Milky Way

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Changes in Diet May Have Led to Humans Having Smoother Skulls

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3,000 Years of Ancient Diets in Poland Reveal Migration and Early Social Divisions

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Comet 3I/ATLAS Flaunts Bright Halo and Tail in New Image Taken by Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft

“Humans abandoned a bison-hunting site 1,100 years ago-turns out, climate change was to blame.”

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Accessed on 11 February 2026, 1353 UTC.

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Humans Abandoned a Bison-Hunting Site Around 1,100 Years Ago — Turns Out, Climate Change Was to Blame

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One of The Earliest-Known Vertebrates Navigated the Cambrian Dark Forest with Four Eyes

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This 307-Million-Year-Old Animal May Have Been One of the First Plant Eaters

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Ancient Fish Fins May Have Given Rise to Human Hands

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Astronomers Spot a New Sungrazer Comet — Could It be Bright Enough to See in Daylight This Spring?

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A Cold Earth 146 Lightyears Away Could Be Habitable

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Earth’s Magnetic Field Flips Regularly — Some Reversals Last 70,000 Years

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How Forged Papers Led to the Return of a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Sculpture

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Satellite Megaconstellations Could Threaten Up to 96 Percent of Space Telescope Images

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The Moon’s Clock Runs Faster — and It May Need Its Own Time Standard

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JWST Spots Unexpected Abundance of Organic Molecules in Nearby Ultra-Luminous Galaxy

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Why the Ancients Ate These Bizarre Foods — and Why We Don’t Anymore

“Bacteria haven’t been found on Mars-could they be beneath the surface?”

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Bacteria Haven’t Been Found On Mars — Could They Be Beneath the Surface?

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These Oddball Organisms May Spawn a Brand New Branch of Life That’s Now Extinct 

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The Oldest Known Rock Art Is Over 67,000 Years Old, Offering Clues Into Our Ancient Ancestors’ Migrations

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Evolving Plankton May Have Kicked Off Life’s Comeback After the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact

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Fossils Reveal Ancient Giant Kangaroos Could Hop — But Only in Short Bursts

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Microbial Communities That Support Human and Plant Health Could Be Key to Life in Space

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5,500-Year-Old Human Remains Extend the Origins of Syphilis-Causing Bacteria by 3,000 Years

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A 2.6-Million-Year-Old Jaw Uncovers a Missing Hominin From the Afar Region

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500,000-Year-Old Elephant Bone Hammer Reveals Clever Tool-Making Skills of Early Humans

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NASA’s Artemis II Rocket Arrives at Launch Pad Ahead of Moon Mission

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This Cow’s Multi-Purpose Tool Use Challenges Assumptions About Animal Intelligence

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Black Hole Reawakens Like a Cosmic Volcano After 100 Million Years of Sleep

“A hidden iron bar has been uncovered inside the Ring Nebula.”

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444-Million-Year-Old Microscopic Fossils Reveal Early Seafloor Recovery After Mass Extinction

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A Hidden Iron Bar Has Been Uncovered Inside the Ring Nebula

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Giant Rats Grew 14 Times Larger Than Their Mainland Relatives 650,000 Years Ago, but Their Brains Did Not

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Ancient Mummified Cheetahs Found in Saudi Caves Rewrite the Species’ History — and Its Future

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The Universe’s Mysterious Little Red Dots Are Young Black Holes

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A 2-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Shows Early Humans Were Still Built for the Trees

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Tyrannosaurus Rex Took 40 Years to Grow Up, Fossil Bones Reveal

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2,500-Year-Old Iron Age Teeth Reveal How Ancient Childhoods and Diets Unfolded

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Bacteria-Killing Viruses Turn into Better Antibiotic Fighters in Space

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Ancient Wolf Stomach Reveals Remnants of 14,400-Year-Old Woolly Rhino Genome

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A Dead Galaxy From the Early Universe Succumbed to Starvation Due to its Own Black Hole 

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5,000-Year-Old Evidence Shows Humans Hunted Whales Earlier Than Previously Thought