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Water ice takes on a hexagonal structure deep inside the extreme conditions of ice giant planets

The black hole may be erasing binary stars from the Milky Way’s center

Quantum states that once took thousands of cycles can now be prepared in a single Floquet period

Wyoteuthis was a chunky belemnite that survived millions of years after its relatives vanished

The first known Denisovan forearm bone dates back 167,000 years in China

The Devil’s Arrows came from a rocky landscape 18 kilometers away

Teeth show that people in Sulawesi were sucking whole betel nuts 25,000 years ago

The young Sun may have swallowed a super-Earth that still shapes its interior

The largest sunspot ever recorded could have powered a superflare

Bright features in a black hole jet may not be shock waves after all

Chariklo’s two rings changed in opposite directions between 2017 and 2022

The universe’s primordial helium may be telling us how many neutrinos existed at its birth

Cloud-9 may be a galaxy that formed no stars at all

3I/ATLAS formed in a place colder than -240°C, far from its home star

Black hole 35,000 times the Sun’s mass may be feeding on its own gravitational wake

300-TeV photon from a distant gamma-ray burst should have been absorbed before reaching Earth

The solar system’s tiniest icy worlds still carry the colors of their birth

Giant pulses from a transitional millisecond pulsar arrive in tightly clustered bursts

JWST finds galaxies masquerading as quasars, powered by enormous populations of very massive stars

Black-hole ringdowns may carry a local fingerprint of matter at the photon orbit

A white dwarf pair completes an orbit every 6 minutes — and keeps speeding up

The blue demon was the strongest visual focus in an Etruscan tomb built for an unusually immersive soundscape

Two starless hydrogen clouds may be hiding dark matter halos near M51

The extinct “American cheetah” lived in the Arctic—and ate a surprising amount of aquatic food

The thylacine had a wolf-like skull that no living predator can truly match

One Cozumel raccoon watched her sister make paper balls, then learned to make them herself

Bennu is so weak because it lacks enough fine dust to hold its larger grains together

Venus could have kept a moon for 4.5 billion years — if it spun fast enough

Betelgeuse has a hot spot that has stayed put for at least seven years

The quantum phase of freely falling atoms matches Einstein’s prediction