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Giant NASA science balloon completes trip around the world in 16 days
NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in high-altitude flight and atmospheric research.
Experts alarmed as White House proposes 'largest single-year cut to NASA in American history'
"It would recklessly slash NASA’s science budget by 47%."
Oldest gold in the universe may come from a place scientists never expected
Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new study hints. Powerful magnetar flares may be the reason.
James Webb Space Telescope finds a wild black hole growth spurt in galaxies at 'cosmic noon'
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously feeding black holes and bursts of starbirth.
'I won't be surprised if this is happening throughout the universe': Mushball storms on Jupiter offer clues to atmospheres of distant planets
Large hailstones made of ammonia may explain why the gas is missing from large pockets of Jupiter's atmosphere.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft snaps first close-ups of weird peanut-shaped asteroid
NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.
Curiosity rover finds largest carbon chains on Mars from 3.7 billion-year-old rock
NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced by biological processes.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 surprises scientists with 'unusual' shape and could slaphsot the moon
The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.
