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Interstellar comet keeps its distance as it makes its closest approach to Earth phys.org/news/2025-12...

Supernova immersion model suggests Earth-like planets are more common in the universe phys.org/news/2025-12...

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The race to mine the Moon is on – and it urgently needs some clear international rules theconversation.com/the-race-to-...

Brightest-ever lensed supernova reveals astronomy’s coming revolution With the observation of SN 2025wny, a lensed superluminous supernova, astronomy’s future comes into sharp, exciting focus. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Why companies are racing to put 5G on the Moon Companies are racing to put 5G on the Moon, an expert explains why as several missions are planned to visit our lunar neighbour www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...

I am a cis female and rape survivor. If I am in public toilet (or changing room) and a member of the public (of any gender or persuasion) comes in, goes into a cubicle, does their business (washes their hands) and leaves. I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM WITH THAT AND WILL LEAVE THEM BE. #TransRights 🏳️‍⚧️

I am, therefore I think – how Heidegger radically reframed being aeon.co/videos/i-am-...

Göbekli Tepe: The 12,000-Year-Old Ruins That Rewrite the Story of Civilization www.openculture.com/2025/12/gobe...

Download 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli www.openculture.com/2025/12/down...

String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. www.quantamagazine.org/string-theor...

The race to mine the Moon is on – and it urgently needs some clear international rules theconversation.com/the-race-to-...

Swarm detects rare proton spike during solar storm science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Swarm detects rare proton spike during solar storm www.esa.int/Applications...

Göbekli Tepe: The 12,000-Year-Old Ruins That Rewrite the Story of Civilization www.openculture.com/2025/12/gobe...

Download 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli www.openculture.com/2025/12/down...

String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. www.quantamagazine.org/string-theor...

The race to mine the Moon is on – and it urgently needs some clear international rules theconversation.com/the-race-to-...

Comet 3I/ATLAS displays greenish hue in new Gemini North telescope images phys.org/news/2025-12...

Ancient supernova may hold key to universe's mysterious dark energy phys.org/news/2025-12...

Uranus and Neptune might be rock giants phys.org/news/2025-12...

Ghostly solar neutrinos caught transforming carbon atoms deep underground phys.org/news/2025-12...

Massive non-cool-core galaxy cluster explored with Chandra phys.org/news/2025-12...

Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact www.openculture.com/2025/12/was-...

Gravitational lensing is amazing, but won’t solve the Hubble tension The method you use to measure the expanding Universe determines which of two answers you’ll get. Lensed supernovae can’t resolve that issue. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Record-breaking cosmic explosion challenges astronomers' understanding of gamma-ray bursts phys.org/news/2025-12...

Black hole ejects matter at 20% light speed in sun-like magnetic event phys.org/news/2025-12...

Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911) www.openculture.com/2025/12/the-...

“The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science History www.openculture.com/2025/12/mati...

Exploding Stars Like We’ve Never Seen Them A super crisp look at novae suggests they’re far more chaotic than once thought nautil.us/exploding-st...

Nasa robot rover shows that sparks fly in dust storms on Mars theconversation.com/nasa-robot-r...

10 scientific truths that somehow became unpopular in 2025 Scientific truths remain true regardless of belief. These 10, despite contrary claims, remain vitally important as 2025 draws to a close. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

The LHC’s best 2025 discovery points the way to new physics Some vital, key ingredients must be in place for the Universe to make more matter than antimatter. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Time might not exist – and we're starting to understand why The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets www.sciencefocus.com/science/the-...

Decoding dark matter's imprint on black-hole gravitational waves phys.org/news/2025-12...

Close-up images show how stars explode in real time phys.org/news/2025-12...

Probing the existence of a fifth force via neutron star cooling phys.org/news/2025-12...

A new look at TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized, habitable-zone exoplanet phys.org/news/2025-12...

CERN's ATLAS detects evidence for decay of Higgs boson into muon–antimuon pair phys.org/news/2025-12...

Most normal matter in the universe isn't found in planets, stars or galaxies: An astronomer explains phys.org/news/2025-12...

Space debris: will it take a catastrophe for nations to take the issue seriously? theconversation.com/space-debris...

Time-delay cosmography may enable a speed camera for the universe phys.org/news/2025-12...

AI advances robot navigation on the International Space Station Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ISS, laying the groundwork for more autonomous space missions. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Medieval moons Some saw the Moon as representing creation, yearning for the Divine, some saw the Moon as almost Divine herself aeon.co/essays/what-...

We Finally Know the Time of Day on Mars This deceptively difficult question to answer is vital to exploration nautil.us/we-finally-k...

Reality Exists Without Observers? Boooo! Why I don’t root for the Many Worlds team nautil.us/reality-exis...

Earlier ultra-relativistic freeze-out could revive a decades-old theory for dark matter phys.org/news/2025-12...