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Today's biggest science news: Shenzhou-22 relieves stranded astronauts | Ancient volcano erupts | 'Other' comet ATLAS disintegrates
Live blog Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
RIP 'other ATLAS': Watch the doomed comet explode into pieces in incredible new images
Stunning new photos show the pieces of the "other ATLAS," C/2025 K1, breaking apart in space after the golden comet suddenly exploded earlier this month.
'Like a sudden bomb': See photos from space of Ethiopian volcano erupting for first time in 12,000 years
Hayli Gubbi, a shield volcano in northern Ethiopia, erupted for several hours on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 23 — the first eruption since the start of the Holocene.
Marooned no more! Stranded Chinese astronauts finally have a way home following launch of unmanned 'lifeboat'
China has launched an unmanned "lifeboat" to the Tiangong space station, ending a month-long fiasco. The spacecraft will eventually ferry home the marooned Shenzhou-21 crew, who have been stuck without a return capsule for over a week.
Wolf stealing underwater crab traps caught on camera for the first time — signalling 'new dimension' in their behavior
A video has revealed never-before-seen behaviors in wolves that could mark the first case of tool use in a wild member of the wolf and dog family — and it was all for some crab bait.
'I had never seen a skull like this before': Medieval Spanish knight who died in battle had a rare genetic condition, study finds
The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.
Ruptures from 'silent' earthquakes deep in Earth's crust can heal themselves within hours
Researchers re-created the conditions deep inside the Cascadia subduction zone and found that fractured rocks can repair themselves during, or just hours after, slow-motion earthquakes.
Study links GLP-1 use to some pregnancy risks — but the research has key caveats
A new study hints that pregnant people who have previously taken drugs like Ozempic may face a higher risk of certain poor pregnancy outcomes. But more studies are needed to understand the finding.
James Webb telescope may have discovered the earliest, most distant black hole ever seen
The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy GHZ2, revealing how the first black holes grew just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
See a rare conjunction of Mercury and Venus late tonight
The inner planets Mercury and Venus will both be visible in the east-southeast sky before sunrise on Tuesday, Nov. 25.
A new Apple TV series brings to life iconic animals of the last ice age.
A clip from the upcoming series "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started to melt.
Neanderthals cannibalized 'outsider' women and children 45,000 years ago at cave in Belgium
Fragmented Neanderthal bones discovered in a cave in Belgium show that one group cannibalized the women and children of another group.
A decade-long chimp war ended in a baby boom for the victors, scientists discover
A deadly conflict between rival groups of chimpanzees in Uganda led to comprehensive victory and a bounty of territory and food — does it show why humans go to war?
Ancient Egyptian pharaoh moved another ruler's body and stole his tomb, hundreds of funerary figurines suggest
Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.
Has America's obesity rate plateaued?
Some recent national numbers suggest the obesity rate has plateaued or even declined. Experts are skeptical.
Scientists say they've eliminated a major AI bottleneck — now they can process calculations 'at the speed of light'
A new architecture replaces traditional bottlenecks with a passive, single-shot light-speed operation that could become the foundational hardware for AGI, scientists argue.
Odd-looking rock on Mars is totally alien to the Red Planet, Perseverance rover finds
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our neighboring world and likely crashed on Mars instead.
Arctic 'methane bomb' may not explode as permafrost thaws, new study suggests
Methanotrophs, including those that capture methane from the air, seem to outcompete methanogens in dry environments, a new study shows.
