New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light seed’ black holes could rapidly swallow matter and rival the colossal black holes seen in the center of early galaxies.

New research by paleontologists from the University of Bristol, the University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne finds that giant ancestors of modern-day kangaroos had robust hindlimb bones and tendon support capable of withstanding hopping

A team of researchers led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison has reverse-engineered a primordial nitrogen-fixing enzyme, illuminating how life thrived before oxygen reshaped the planet and establishing a reliable chemical marker for detecting life

For more than 165 years, Prototaxites -- one of the earliest giants to rise above Earth’s barren land -- has defied classification.

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New high-resolution observations by ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission show that solar flares are driven by cascading magnetic reconnection events, unleashing vast energy and ‘raining’ plasma blobs across the Sun’s atmosphere.

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A new analysis of Naracoorte Cave fossils reveals how wetlands once thrived and then vanished as the climate warmed up to 60,000 years ago.

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The newly-discovered fossil -- a 2.6-million-year-old partial lower jaw found in the Afar region of Ethiopia -- represents the first known specimen of Paranthropus ever discovered there and is among the oldest remains attributed to this genus anywhere

The new infrared image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals the complex structure of gas and dust shed by a white dwarf in the center of the Helix Nebula.

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A duo of geophysicists from Washington State University and Virginia Tech has uncovered a plausible pathway for nutrient transfer from the radiation-charged surface into the subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

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New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic eruptions, played the central role in atmospheric carbon swings and long-term climate shifts throughout Earth’s geological past.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have produced the unprecedented high-resolution images of 24 debris disks -- the dusty belts left after planets finish forming -- revealing the dynamic, transitional phase betwee

New research by MIT planetary scientists shows how striking differences in the polar vortex patterns of Jupiter and Saturn may be driven by deep interior properties, offering fresh clues about the structure of gas giants.

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According to new observations by NASA’s SPHEREx mission, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has dramatically changed its behavior, developing the hallmarks of a fully active comet after a close encounter with the Sun.

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In a paper published today in the journal Current Biology, researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, report the first experimental evidence that a cow (Bos taurus) can use a single object as a multipurpose tool, selecting different

Dark matter may not have been ‘cold’ in the earliest moments after the Big Bang, as long believed.

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Inspired by a technique that allowed astronomers to image a black hole, scientists at the University of Connecticut developed a lens-free image sensor that achieves sub-micron 3D resolution, promising to transform fields from forensics to remote sensin

Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual gravitons -- particles once thought fundamentally undetectable -- heralding a new era in quantum gravity research.

Astronomers using the WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE), a powerful new instrument mounted on the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma, have detected an unexpected, elongated structure of ionized iron inside the famous Ring Nebula.

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A comprehensive analysis of 17 fossil specimens reveals that Tyrannosaurus rex grew far more slowly than previously thought -- reaching its full-grown size of eight tons around age 40 -- and challenges earlier assumptions about its life history.

Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ -- red sources scattered across images of the early Universe -- are rapidly growing black holes wrapped in ionized gas, offering new insight into how supermassive

A newly-described partial skeleton from the Koobi Fora Formation in northern Kenya is giving paleoanthropologists their most complete picture yet of Homo habilis -- one of the earliest members of the human genus -- revealing just how physically distinc

The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is a cold-adapted herbivore that went extinct around 14,000 years ago, but little is known about their population decline prior to extinction.

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SETI@home, the pioneering distributed-computing project launched in 1999 that enlisted millions of volunteers to analyze radio signals from space, produced some 12 billion detections -- brief bursts of energy that stood out from background noise -- as

At Leang Bulu Bettue, a rock-shelter in the Maros-Pangkep karst region on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, paleoanthropologists have uncovered one of the most complete records of early human occupation ever found in Wallacea.

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A fish species called the armored rockhead poacher (Bothragonus swanii) carries a secret that has confounded marine biologists for decades: a deep, bowl-shaped hole in the middle of its skull.

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Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have captured the most detailed infrared view yet into the center of the Circinus Galaxy, one of the closest known active galaxies to the Milky Way.

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In new experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS), microbiologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rhodium Scientific Inc. have discovered that the near-weightless environment of space can significantly reshape how bacterioph

Using the high resolution images from the NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera) instrument onboard the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted one of the earliest barred spiral galaxies known, shaping our view of cosmic evolution.

A team of paleontologists from Mexico and the United States has identified a new species of bird-like dinosaur with an unusually thick and domed skull, suggesting it may have used head-butting during combat with members of its own species.

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Physicists from the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen and the Transylvanian University of Brașov have unveiled a new theoretical framework that could rewrite how we understand the accelerating expansion of

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured a breathtaking shock wave around the white dwarf star 1RXS J052832.5+283824 (RXJ0528+2838 for short) -- a phenomenon that doesn’t fit existing models and could reshape our understanding

A long-standing mystery in vertebrate evolution -- why most major fish lineages appear suddenly in the fossil record tens of millions of years after their presumed origins -- is tied to the Late Ordovician mass extinction.

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New multi-year observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes reveal how a faint companion star, dubbed Siwarha, carves a trail through Betelgeuse’s extended atmosphere.

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Astronomers have detected an extraordinary asteroid, named 2025 MN45, in early data from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera -- the largest digital camera in the world -- at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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New observations of the young cluster SPT2349-56 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed unexpectedly scorching intracluster gas just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, challenging current models of galaxy cluster

Archaeologists have identified traces of two toxic plant alkaloids -- buphandrine and epibuphanisine -- on artifacts from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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A new analysis of stress, tides and interior forces suggests Jupiter’s icy moon Europa lacks the active seafloor faulting needed for robust hydrothermal circulation -- with implications for chemical energy and habitability.

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