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Fervo’s geothermal plant goes live in 23 months
Fervo Energy has started commercial operations at its Cape Station geothermal plant in Utah, built in just 23 months, with Google and…
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Feathered dinosaur fossil rewrites flight evolution
A 57 cm feathered dinosaur fossil from China, described in Nature Communications, suggests powered flight evolved multiple times in dinosaurs.
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NASA’s Mars simulation crew switches to Martian days
The four-member CHAPEA-2 crew in NASA's Mars simulation has switched to living on 24-hour-40-minute Martian sols ahead of the mission's October 31…
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October Sky: 3 Meteor Showers, Peak Saturn, Northern Lights
October 2026 brings 3 meteor showers, Saturn at its brightest, northern lights and a final Milky Way show. Here is how to…
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IC 1101 crowned largest known galaxy, wider than 17 Milky Ways
IC 1101 spans 1.7 million light-years and holds 3.4 trillion solar masses, confirmed by the Isaac Newton Telescope.
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Galaxy Messier 74 is twice as big as we thought
Astronomers found young stars doubling Messier 74's known size to nearly 100,000 light-years across.
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Space mirrors and the fight over the night sky, explained
Reflect Orbital plans thousands of sunlight-beaming satellites, and astronomers warn a single one would outshine the full moon.
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Astronomers hear radio bursts from an exoplanet for the first time
Astronomers detected repeating radio bursts from Beta Pictoris b, the first radio signal from an exoplanet's magnetic field.
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NASA’s $30M bid to save falling Swift telescope falls apart
NASA's $30 million Katalyst mission to rescue the falling Swift telescope ended when the Link spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere.
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Antarctica ice loss locked in, study warns
A Nature Geoscience study finds Antarctica's net ice loss this century is locked in even at 1.5C warming, and extra snowfall won't…