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Astronomers are closing in on the helium made in the universe’s first minutes
Four 1-meter footprints from 66.5 million years ago may be the first trackway left by an adult T. rex
This half-billion-year-old Charnia frond was buried in a sediment flow instead of flattened on the seafloor
The Southern Ocean can keep releasing CO₂ even after atmospheric CO₂ falls
The slope of an ancient volcanic blanket puts a limit on how fast the Andes rose
Luminescence dating places South Dakota’s Mammoth Site between 232,000 and 160,000 years old
GW241011’s fast-spinning object was too round for a class of boson stars
Water ice takes on a hexagonal structure deep inside the extreme conditions of ice giant planets
The black hole may be erasing binary stars from the Milky Way’s center
Quantum states that once took thousands of cycles can now be prepared in a single Floquet period
Wyoteuthis was a chunky belemnite that survived millions of years after its relatives vanished
The first known Denisovan forearm bone dates back 167,000 years in China
The Devil’s Arrows came from a rocky landscape 18 kilometers away
Teeth show that people in Sulawesi were sucking whole betel nuts 25,000 years ago
The young Sun may have swallowed a super-Earth that still shapes its interior
The largest sunspot ever recorded could have powered a superflare
Bright features in a black hole jet may not be shock waves after all
Chariklo’s two rings changed in opposite directions between 2017 and 2022
The universe’s primordial helium may be telling us how many neutrinos existed at its birth
Cloud-9 may be a galaxy that formed no stars at all
3I/ATLAS formed in a place colder than -240°C, far from its home star
Black hole 35,000 times the Sun’s mass may be feeding on its own gravitational wake
300-TeV photon from a distant gamma-ray burst should have been absorbed before reaching Earth
The solar system’s tiniest icy worlds still carry the colors of their birth
Giant pulses from a transitional millisecond pulsar arrive in tightly clustered bursts
JWST finds galaxies masquerading as quasars, powered by enormous populations of very massive stars
Black-hole ringdowns may carry a local fingerprint of matter at the photon orbit
A white dwarf pair completes an orbit every 6 minutes — and keeps speeding up
