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Woman in France hit by suspected meteorite while drinking coffee on her porch
By Harry Baker published
The woman was sat on her porch when she heard a loud "bang" from the roof and a pebble-size rock pinged into her chest. But not everyone is convinced it was a meteorite.
'Building blocks of life' discovered on Mars in 10 different rock samples
By Charles Q. Choi published
NASA's Perseverance rover has found an intriguing menagerie of organic molecules in a Martian crater, but their source remains unclear.
'Cannibal' coronal mass ejection that devoured 'dark eruption' from sun will smash into Earth today (July 18)
By Harry Baker published
Two coronal mass ejections have combined into an enormous cloud of magnetized plasma that is forecast to hit Earth on Tuesday and potentially trigger a weak geomagnetic storm.
A nearby supernova nearly blew our solar system to bits 4 billion years ago, new research suggests
By Robert Lea published
A supernova that erupted when a massive star died could have destroyed our infant solar system — if it weren't protected by a cocoon of molecular gas.
Tiny, 'ultracool' star emits surprising radio signals that it should not be capable of producing
By Harry Baker published
The brown dwarf, which is colder than a typical campfire, produces regular radio wave pulses despite having a magnetic field that, in theory, should be too weak to create them.
James Webb Space Telescope: Origins, design and mission objectives
By Andrew May last updated
Reference NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has launched and it's the most powerful in history, giving us the deepest ever view into our universe.
Explosive 'star factory' image marks the James Webb telescope's one-year anniversary of operations
By Joanna Thompson published
In its first year of operations, the James Webb Space Telescope has already revolutionized our view of the cosmos. Its one-year anniversary image is a spectacularly beautiful addition.
The 'man in the moon' may be hundreds of millions of years older than we thought
By Stephanie Pappas published
Much of the moon's surface is 200 million years older than previously estimated, a new analysis suggests.
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