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Plane's sudden and uncontrolled drop 'could have been caused by cosmic rays'

World December 5, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy
High-resolution view of Earth from space at night, focusing on North America with countless glowing city lights creating a network of illumination across the continent. The curvature of the planet is visible with a bright blue atmospheric glow and scattered stars in the background. Cloud formations add realism, highlighting the beauty of our planet seen from orbit. Ideal for themes of space, geography, satellite imagery, and global connectivity.

Sportswear boss offers his £3billion firm to anyone who can prove Earth is flat

World December 4, 2025 By William Hallowell
For this new ESA/Webb Picture of the Month, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has spied a pair of dwarf galaxies engaged in a gravitational dance. These two galaxies are named NGC 4490 and NGC 4485, and they???re located about 24 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs). Aside from the Milky Way???s own dwarf companions (the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds), this is the closest known interacting dwarf-dwarf system where astronomers have directly observed both a gas bridge and resolved stellar populations. Together NGC 4490 and NGC 4485 form the system Arp 269, which is featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. At such a close distance (and with Webb???s impressive ability to peer through dusty cosmic clouds) these galaxies allow astronomers to witness up close the kinds of galaxy interactions that were common billions of years ago. Dwarf galaxies likely share many similarities with young galaxies in the early Universe: they are much less massive than galaxies like the Milky Way, they typically have small amounts of metals (what astronomers call elements heavier than helium), and they contain a lot of gas and relatively few stars. When nearby dwarf galaxies collide, merge, or steal gas from one another, it can tell us how galaxies billions of years ago might have grown and evolved.?? The nearby dwarf galaxies NGC 4490 and NGC 4485 form an intriguing pair. Nearly three decades ago, astronomers discovered a wispy bridge of gas connecting the two galaxies, showing that they have interacted in the past. Despite many studies with powerful telescopes like the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the history between NGC4490 and NGC 4485 has remained mysterious. Recently, Webb observed this curious galactic pair as part of the Feedback in Emerging extrAgalactic Star clusTers (FEAST) programme (#1783; PI: A. Adamo). The FEAST programme used Webb???s sensitive infrared eyes to reveal the formation of new stars in different types

‘Dancing’ dwarf galaxies spotted by James Webb Space Telescope

World December 3, 2025 By Chloe Johnson
This photo provided by Gianluca Masi shows the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas as it streaks through space, 190 million miles from Earth, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. The image was taken from Manciano, Italy. (Gianluca Masi via AP)

Space expert gives his verdict on what's making mysterious space rock pulse

Tech December 7, 2025 By Jen Mills
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Bizarre Chernobyl fungus that feeds on radiation may be key to space travel

Tech December 1, 2025 By Josh Milton
The woman's swollen eye and (centre) the worm after it was removed. Picture: nejm.org

Worm 'from pet dog' hatched inside woman’s forehead and then crawled into her eye

Weird December 1, 2025 By Jen Mills
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The unexpected age you ‘become an adult’ now — and 9 signs to prove it 

Health November 26, 2025 By Courtney Pochin

Here’s how your sweat might be exposing your social status

Health November 24, 2025 By Hiyah Zaidi
EMBARGOED TO 0001 MONDAY NOVEMBER 24 Undated handout photo issued by the Citizen Zoo of a German hairy snail. Conservationists and citizen scientists have joined forces for a project to save London's hairy ice-aged snail. The project team, led by Citizen Zoo and Zoological Society of London have started a series of surveys to better understand the species' distribution across the capital and inform conservation action. Issue date: Monday November 24, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Gino Brignoli/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Experts are on a mission to save some weirdly hairy German snails - here's why

UK November 24, 2025 By Ryan Prosser
This photo provided by Gianluca Masi shows the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas as it streaks through space, 190 million miles from Earth, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. The image was taken from Manciano, Italy. (Gianluca Masi via AP)

Is our 'alien' comet now targeting Jupiter? Harvard scientist lists 13 'anomalies'

Tech November 23, 2025 By Jen Mills

Earliest signs of life wriggling on Earth found in 3,300,000,000 year-old rock

Tech November 23, 2025 By Josh Milton

Nearly 13 million-year-old fossil named after Shakira 'because they're huge fans'

World November 22, 2025 By Ryan Prosser

Experts unlock secrets of ‘the most momentous event in our planet’s history’ 

Tech November 21, 2025 By Hiyah Zaidi

The Earth is tearing Africa and Asia apart by 0.5 millimetres a year

World November 20, 2025 By Hiyah Zaidi
This image is a screen grab of the video supplied titled NewsX-GreenBall-01.mp4: Footage shows a mysterious green fireball falling over Moscow, Russia on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (newsX)

Woman's payday after mysterious green meteorite pieces crashes into home

World November 17, 2025 By Molly Lee

Part of the Earth is tearing apart in a ‘train wreck’ event

Tech November 17, 2025 By Hiyah Zaidi