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US Removes Most Ocean Observatories Initiative Moorings

The removals will create gaps in subsurface ocean data essential for tracking El Niño, AMOC shifts, marine heatwaves, fisheries impacts

Plasma ‘Mirror’ Breakthrough Points to Record Lab Light Intensities

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

LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Unveil Catalog That More Than Doubles Gravitational-Wave Detections

IceCube Installs Six Deep-Ice Strings With About 670 New Sensors at the South Pole

IceCube Completes First Expansion in 15 Years With Six New Detector Strings

Instruments Jam in Thwaites Drill, First Readings Show Warm, Fast Water Below

MSU Wins Russian Government Science Prize for Caucasus Mountain Observatory

After 59 Days of Data, JUNO Delivers First Precision Neutrino Measurements

Nearby Super‑Earth GJ 251 c Detected in Habitable Zone After Two‑Decade Radial‑Velocity Campaign

Scientists Directly Detect Torsional Alfvén Waves in the Sun’s Corona

Nearby Habitable-Zone Super-Earth Candidate GJ 251 c Announced in Peer-Reviewed Study

sPHENIX at RHIC Clears ‘Standard Candle’ Test to Launch Full Physics Program

CHIME Outriggers Pinpoint Brightest Nearby Fast Radio Burst to Galaxy NGC 4141

Deepest Optical Image of Abell 3667 Confirms Stellar Bridge from Subcluster Merger

Vera Rubin Observatory Unveils First Images and Discovers Over 2,000 Asteroids

ANITA Detector Logs Anomalous Radio Pulses From Beneath Antarctic Ice

Unusual 44-Minute Radio and X-Ray Pulses Detected Deep in Milky Way

World's Largest Solar Telescope Captures First High-Resolution Image of Sunspot

DESI Survey Reveals Largest Collection of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes and Active Galactic Nuclei in Dwarf Galaxies