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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: We have not been able to detect dark matter yet, even though there are many aspects of the universe that suggest the existence of invisible matter. In one new theory, it is possible that dark matter exists in a mirror universe where there are only dark versions of forces that hold …

A UFO? Or just a “fuel dump”? A UFO? Or just a “fuel dump”? 02:01 A video shows a strange light in the sky Tuesday night over Woodbury, Minnesota, causing some to wonder what it may have been. Rusty Nereng, who took the video, tells WCCO he captured the unique sight around 9:30 p.m., moving from south to north with …

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Researchers have uncovered fossils belonging to a previously unknown ancient human relative. And they may have lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known members of the genus Homo, from which modern humans evolved, according to a new study. A team of archeologists working at Ethiopia’s Ledi-Geraru research project area unearthed a set of fossilized teeth that likely …

For years, astronomers have suspected that an unseen planet may exist far beyond Neptune to explain unusual gravitational patterns in the Kuiper Belt. These patterns, such as the clustering and tilted orbits off distant objects, suggested the gravitational pull of a massive, undiscovered planet, possibly seven to 17 times Earth’s mass. Source link

A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B has revealed that common cuttlefish can pass a test of delayed gratification—a benchmark of cognitive ability typically applied to children, primates, and birds. This research, led by behavioral ecologist Alexandra K. Schnell of the University of Cambridge, adds another layer to our understanding of cephalopod intelligence, and it’s forcing scientists …

The moment a creature dies, its DNA begins to break down. Half of it degrades every 521 years on average. By about 6.8 million years, even under ideal preservation conditions in cold, stable environments, every meaningful trace is gone. That’s a huge challenge when trying to understand our evolutionary history more deeply: Two-legged primates emerged 7 million years ago in …

On Aug. 1, 2025, the SpaceX Crew-11 astronaut mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, headed for the International Space Station (ISS), which sits in low Earth orbit (LEO) at around 260 miles (418 kilometers) above our planet. As its name suggests, Crew-11 is the 11th contracted crewed mission that SpaceX has flown to the ISS for NASA, …

A bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out cosmic radiation is pointing straight at us. Thankfully, the object, unimaginatively dubbed “PKS 1424+240,” is located roughly 7.4 billion light-years away and likely won’t pose much of a danger. But that hasn’t stopped a group of excited astronomers from renaming it: the “Eye of Sauron,” the symbol adopted …

There’s bad news for our hopes of habitable planets existing around TRAPPIST-1, with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finding no evidence for an Earth-like atmosphere on a third world orbiting the red dwarf. However, that still leaves four other planets in orbit around TRAPPIST-1 that could be habitable, with at least two or three of them in what is …