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NASA's Webb Telescope Captures the Dust Clouds of Apep, Named for the Egyptian God of Chaos Thanks for the James Webb Space Telescope image, researchers were able to observe four coiled shells of dust around the pair for the first time.

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JWST captured a stunning mid-infrared view of Wolf-Rayet Apep, showing four spiraling dust shells around a chaotic triple-star system. Two massive stars forge carbon dust in colliding winds while a third star carves holes through each layer. Credit: NASA/ ESA/ CSA/ STScI

JWST captured a stunning mid-infrared view of Wolf-Rayet Apep, showing four spiraling dust shells around a chaotic triple-star system. Two massive stars forge carbon dust in colliding winds while a third star carves holes through each layer.

Credit: NASA/ ESA/ CSA/ STScI

Harvard Astronomer Says Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Blasting Its Thrusters to Get Away From Us as Fast as Possible Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb says interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be firing its "thrusters" to leave the solar system.

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Astronomers are grappling with a wild idea: Harvard’s Avi Loeb suggests that 3I/ATLAS might have “thrusters” strong jets pointing toward the Sun (its unusual “anti-tail”) possibly hinting at a technological, not just cometary, object. Credit: David Jewitt / Jane Luu

Astronomers are grappling with a wild idea: Harvard’s Avi Loeb suggests that 3I/ATLAS might have “thrusters” strong jets pointing toward the Sun (its unusual “anti-tail”) possibly hinting at a technological, not just cometary, object.

Credit: David Jewitt / Jane Luu

Sun unleashes strongest solar flare of 2025, sparking radio blackouts across Africa and Europe The X5.1-class eruption from sunspot AR4274 is this year's most powerful solar flare and Earth is in the firing line.

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The Sun just erupted with the strongest solar flare of 2025, an X5.1-class blast that triggered radio blackouts over Africa and Europe and sent shockwaves through Earth’s atmosphere. Image Credit: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Centre

The Sun just erupted with the strongest solar flare of 2025, an X5.1-class blast that triggered radio blackouts over Africa and Europe and sent shockwaves through Earth’s atmosphere.

Image Credit: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Centre

Astronomy's first gap-clearing planet fills in our "missing link" Planets grow from protostellar material in disks, leading to full-grown planetary systems in time. At last, the final gap has been filled.

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Astronomers have found the first gap-clearing planet, WISPIT 2b nestled inside the rings of its star’s debris disk, it could be the missing link in planetary formation.

Credit: ESO/Laird Close, University of Arizona, R. F. van Capelleveen et al

A long, bumpy caterpillar-like wormhole may connect two black holes For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole looks like. But thanks to theoretical physics, we can ask what the inside should look like if Einstein's theory of gravity and the r...

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Scientists suggest a “caterpillar-like” wormhole connecting two entangled black holes a bumpy tunnel in spacetime where quantum chaos shapes the geometry. A bold step toward uniting quantum physics and gravity. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain

Scientists suggest a “caterpillar-like” wormhole connecting two entangled black holes a bumpy tunnel in spacetime where quantum chaos shapes the geometry. A bold step toward uniting quantum physics and gravity.

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James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD'

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The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a gargantuan ravenous black hole in the ancient universe—nicknamed BiRD (Big Red Dot)—that existed just 4 billion years after the Big Bang. Image credit: F. Loiacono, NASA, ESA, CSA

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a gargantuan ravenous black hole in the ancient universe—nicknamed BiRD (Big Red Dot) that existed just 4 billion years after the Big Bang.

Image credit: F. Loiacono, NASA, ESA, CSA

Why an interstellar comet has scientists excited The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas surrounding it.

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3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet spotted in 2025, shows vaporised nickel far from the Sun metal usually won’t evaporate there. It hints at the comet formed in a distant, cold star system, possibly older than our Sun. Image: NASA/ESA/AP

3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet spotted in 2025, shows vaporised nickel far from the Sun metal usually won’t evaporate there. It hints at the comet formed in a distant, cold star system, possibly older than our Sun.

Image: NASA/ESA/AP

Historic Collaboration Suggests “Ghost Particles” Could Explain All of Existence New research reveals how ghost particles may break the universe’s symmetry, offering clues to why matter—and life—exist at all.

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Scientists have just taken a big leap toward solving one of physics' greatest mysteries: why our universe is filled with matter instead of equal parts matter and antimatter. A groundbreaking joint study of “ghost particles” suggests these shape-shifters may tip the balance. Credit: Adis Resic

Scientists have just taken a big leap toward solving one of physics' greatest mysteries: why our universe is filled with matter instead of equal parts matter and antimatter. A groundbreaking joint study of “ghost particles” suggests these shape-shifters may tip the balance.

Credit: Adis Resic

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The mysterious carbon star CW Leonis glows within a web of shells and arcs — a cosmic masterpiece of carbon dust and light. Its fiery layers may hold clues to how the carbon in us once drifted through dying stars like this one. Image Credit: ESA, NASA, Hubble, T. Ueta (U. Denver), H. Kim (KASI)

The mysterious carbon star CW Leonis glows within a web of shells and arcs — a cosmic masterpiece of carbon dust and light. Its fiery layers may hold clues to how the carbon in us once drifted through dying stars like this one.

Image Credit: ESA, NASA, Hubble, T. Ueta (U. Denver), H. Kim (KASI)

Scientists discover 1st evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old 'proto-Earth' buried deep within our planet "This is maybe the first direct evidence that we've preserved the proto-Earth materials."

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Scientists have found the first evidence of a 4.5 billion year-old proto-Earth buried deep within our planet remnants of an ancient world that existed before Earth. A hidden piece of our planet’s origin story might finally be uncovered. Credit: (Artist's Illustration) Stocktrek Images/Getty Images

Scientists have found the first evidence of a 4.5 billion year-old proto-Earth buried deep within our planet remnants of an ancient world that existed before Earth. A hidden piece of our planet’s origin story might finally be uncovered.

Credit: (Artist's Illustration) Stocktrek Images/Getty Images

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A galactic duet in Cepheus The Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) dazzles with 10 supernovae in just a century, while nearby open cluster NGC 6939 shines only 5,600 light-years away. A cosmic blend of beauty and distance. Image Credit & Copyright: Alberto Pisabarro

A galactic duet in Cepheus
The Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) dazzles with 10 supernovae in just a century, while nearby open cluster NGC 6939 shines only 5,600 light-years away. A cosmic blend of beauty and distance.

Image Credit & Copyright: Alberto Pisabarro

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Newly discovered ‘super-Earth’ offers prime target in search for alien life | Penn State University The discovery of a possible “super-Earth” less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an international team including researchers from Penn State.

In short: GJ 251 c is closer than most exoplanet targets, big enough to study in detail, and in the habitable zone. If we want to find alien life, this is one of the best shots we have right now. Exciting times ahead for exoplanet research.

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That said, GJ 251 c orbits a red dwarf star—these stars are prone to flares and variable activity that could strip atmospheres or make life less likely. So while the discovery is thrilling, habitability is far from confirmed.

The planet orbits at just the right distance where liquid water could exist—provided it has an atmosphere. While we cannot yet probe that atmosphere, the team argues this candidate offers one of the best chances in the next 5-10 years to search for life elsewhere.

GJ 251 c’s location makes it a high-priority target for future observatories. Using the HPF spectrograph at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, scientists amassed >20 years of data capturing the host star’s “wobble” to identify this planet’s presence.

Astronomers have found a “super-Earth” designated GJ 251 c, orbiting a nearby dwarf star just ~18-20 light-years from Earth. The planet is nearly 4× Earth’s mass, likely rocky, and lies in the habitable “Goldilocks” zone.

An international team of scientists, including researchers at Penn State, dubbed the exoplanet, named GJ 251 c, a “super-Earth” as data suggest it has a rocky composition similar to Earth and is almost four times as massive. Credit: Illustration by University of California Irvine .

NEWS: Astronomers announce discovery of a "Super-Earth" in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star just 22 light years away

How scientists are using spinning dead stars to find ripples in the fabric of spacetime Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and leftover waves from the Big Bang.

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