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Scientists Confirm New Clathrate Crystal Forged in Trinity Nuclear Test

The finding shows nuclear blast conditions can forge metastable, cage-like crystals beyond standard lab methods.

Magnetar ‘Chirp’ Identified in Superluminous Supernova as Short GRB Localized to Tidal-Stream Dwarf

Rubin Observatory Goes Live With Real-Time Sky Alerts, Sending 800,000 in First Night

Study Ties ASASSN-24fw’s 200-Day Fade to Ringed Brown Dwarf or Super-Jupiter

Study Puts 4.3% Chance on Asteroid 2024 YR4 Striking the Moon in 2032

Star-Shredding Black Hole’s Radio Jet Still Surging, With Peak Predicted Around 2027

New Analyses Point to Tardigrades as the Likeliest Survivors of Global Catastrophes

Supermassive Black Hole in J1007+3540 Restarts Jets After 100 Million Years

Hubble Catches Two Debris-Cloud Collisions at Fomalhaut, Recasting ‘Fomalhaut b’

Brightest Blue Cosmic Flash Linked to Black Hole Tearing Apart a Massive Star, Studies Find

Record-Long Gamma-Ray Burst and Earliest-Known Supernova Challenge Models of Cosmic Explosions

Real-Time Black Hole Flare Triggers Ultrafast Wind at 20% Light Speed

Webb Confirms Most Distant Supernova Yet at z=7.3

Study Ties Ancient Close Stellar Flyby to a ‘Cosmic Scar’ in the Sun’s Neighborhood

Early Interferometric Images Recast Novae as Multi-Stage, Directional Eruptions

Astronomers Confirm First Coronal Mass Ejection From a Star Beyond the Sun

Kamchatka Logs Nine Aftershocks Up to M5.8 as Pacific Rim Sees Fresh Quakes

Far-Side Solar Eruption May Be X10 With Plasma Cloud Forecast to Reach Interstellar Comet Oct. 24

Study Ties Earth’s Early Crust Changes to Milky Way Spiral-Arm Passages

Day-Long, Repeating Gamma-Ray Burst Outside Milky Way Defies Existing Models