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Astronaut Photographs 'Hopper' Potassium Chloride Crystal Growing on ISS

Microgravity lets edges grow faster than faces, creating hollow, stair‑stepped crystals that could inform cleaner materials manufacturing on Earth.

Total Solar Eclipse to Cross Spain, Iceland and Greenland on 12 August 2026

JWST Finds Heavy, Water-Rich Atmosphere on Mini-Neptune in Rare Hot-Jupiter System

Microgravity Scrambles Sperm Navigation, Lab Study Finds

Webb Delivers Sharpest Contiguous Map of Dark Matter’s Cosmic Web

Webb Delivers Sharpest Dark-Matter Map, Revealing the Universe’s Hidden Scaffold

Simulations Show Mars Helps Shape Earth’s Ice‑Age Cycles

Hubble Confirms Starless ‘Cloud-9’ as Dark-Matter RELHIC as Lensing Reveals a Distant Dark Disruptor

Webb Finds Carbon-Rich Atmosphere on Lemon-Shaped Planet Orbiting a Pulsar

New Study Recasts Titan’s Interior, Challenging Idea of a Global Ocean

Titan May Lack a Global Ocean, Cassini Reanalysis Points to a Slushy Interior With Isolated Water Pockets

Study Calculates How Tiny Black Holes Could Injure Humans—and Why Encounters Are Virtually Impossible

Astronomers Detect Lowest-Mass Dark Object Yet via Subtle Gravitational Lens Signal

Global Radio Array Detects Smallest Gravitational-Lensing Object Yet, Weighing About a Million Suns

Global VLBI Detects Lowest-Mass Dark Object at Cosmological Distance

New Mapping Method Targets Safer Asteroid Strikes to Avoid Gravitational Keyholes

ESA’s Apophis Probe on Track as China Proposes 2029 Flyby

Researchers Warn Venus Co-Orbital Asteroids Could Endanger Earth

Study Reveals Jupiter Was Once Twice Its Current Size with a Magnetic Field 50 Times Stronger

Study Reveals Trees Synchronize Bioelectrical Signals Before Solar Eclipse