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NASA’s Webb just clocked an infant galaxy pumping out cosmic dust far faster than the early universe should allow — and no one can explain how

By BeckhamLangford

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A comet just dove toward the sun and vanished in a single puff of gas — solar telescopes caught its final seconds before it boiled away to nothing

By BeckhamLangford

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Astronomers just found a backwards solar system where rocky worlds orbit farther out than the gas giants — a layout planet science says shouldn’t exist

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The James Webb telescope just found a rare Saturn-size world with Earth-like temperatures and a sky full of methane — 330 light-years away

By BeckhamLangford

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A geomagnetic storm is building this Memorial Day weekend — forecasters say the northern lights could push into the northern U.S. from Sunday into midweek

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Astronomers just confirmed 118 new planets beyond our solar system in a single sweep — with 2,000 more strong candidates still waiting to be checked

By BeckhamLangford

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NASA’s Webb just caught a newborn galaxy blazing with ‘monster stars’ — giant suns that may explain how the first black holes were ever born

By BeckhamLangford

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Kilauea is inflating toward its next eruption — the USGS now expects lava fountains to return to Halemaʻumaʻu between Sunday and Tuesday

By BeckhamLangford

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Mexico’s Popocatépetl is throwing ash over the valley again as Guatemala’s Fuego erupts the same day — two of the Americas’ most active volcanoes firing at once

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A possibly habitable world just turned up around a calm red dwarf — a rare quiet star that might not blast its planet’s air away with constant flares

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The James Webb telescope just peered into the heart of a distant galaxy and watched a supermassive black hole devour gas faster than theory says it should

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A new meteor stream crossing Earth’s path traces straight back to a dying asteroid — the first time a rock’s slow breakup has been caught this way

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Astronomers tracing the universe’s most powerful cosmic rays just found a hidden pattern that could finally reveal where the mysterious particles are born

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The James Webb telescope just read the layered walls of a vast canyon near Mars’s equator — decoding a buried history of flowing water and volcanic fire

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NASA’s Perseverance rover just rolled up on a neat stack of rocks on Mars that looks far too tidy to have formed on its own

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A trail of shooting stars just gave astronomers the smoking gun of an asteroid quietly crumbling under the Sun’s heat — shedding debris along its orbit

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Astronomers just spotted a possibly temperate super-Earth circling a quiet nearby red dwarf — sitting in the narrow zone where liquid water could survive

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Scientists just used Webb to study ancient ‘monster stars’ — giant suns that may explain how the universe’s first black holes were born

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NASA’s Webb just peered into the heart of the Circinus galaxy — peeling back the dust to watch a supermassive black hole feed

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A coronal hole on the sun just aimed fast solar wind at Earth — pushing the northern lights farther south than usual for the next few nights

By BeckhamLangford

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