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The richest person in the world is obsessed with creating a city on Mars. Elon Musk would like to see a million people living in a self-sufficient Martian settlement by 2050, both as a plan B for Earth and because it gives us something cool to get excited about. Traveling to Mars has been a recurring theme of spacefaring fantasies …

Hundreds of unexpectedly energetic objects have been discovered throughout the distant universe, possibly hinting that the cosmos was far more active during its infancy than astronomers once believed. Using deep-field images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers at the University of Missouri identified 300 unusually bright objects in the early universe. While they could be galaxies, astronomers aren’t …

Topline The annual Perseid meteor shower may have peaked overnight on Monday and Tuesday, but it did so in a night sky bleached by strong moonlight that blotted out many of the fainter “shooting stars.” Although the peak rate of meteors has since reduced, a darker sky this weekend may mean lingering Perseids are visible at night. The annual Perseid …

Black holes form when massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and collapse under their own gravity. This collapse compresses the core into a singularity, an infinitely dense point surrounded by the event horizon. The three main types are stellar-mass black holes, which weigh between 1 and 100 times the Sun’s mass and form after a supernova; intermediate-mass black holes, with …

Press enter or click to view image in full size The retrograde trajectory of 3I/ATLAS is perfectly aligned with the plane of the planets around the Sun, with a random chance of 1 in 500. Was this path designed by alien intelligence? (Image credit: theskylive.com) Science is fun. It offers an opportunity to learn something new, as long as we …

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an Australian beach has allowed paleontologists to identify a rare, entirely new species that could unlock mysteries of whale evolution. Researchers this week officially named Janjucetus dullardi, a cartoonish creature …

Photographer Joshua Thum captured a shot of the mystery spiral glowing above Wisconsin’s Yerkes Observatory while trying to snap “shooting stars” from the Perseids meteor shower. (Image credit: Joshua Thum) While searching for “shooting stars” from the Perseid meteor shower, stargazers across large parts of the U.S. were recently treated to a stunning surprise: a giant spiral of ghostly white …

Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.co.uk  By KATE DENNETT, SENIOR SHOWBUSINESS REPORTER Published: 16:15, 14 August 2025 | Updated: 16:20, 14 August 2025 Lauren Sanchez has shared a cryptic post after the Blue Origin space mission came under widespread fire. The American news anchor, 55, took to her Instagram Stories on Thursday to share a telling post about flights being …

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