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This illustration provided by W.M. Keck Observatory depicts the insides of an exploding star. (Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory via AP)
Scientists get a rare peek inside of an exploding star
Scientists have gotten a rare peek into a dying star, exposing its interior as it exploded. The most massive stars go out with a bang in explosions called supernovas.
 
This is an image provided by NASA shows the planet Uranus, taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. (NASA via AP)
NASA’s Webb telescope finds a new tiny moon around Uranus
The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. NASA announced the discovery on Tuesday. The moon appears to be just six miles wide.
 
A girl looks through a telescope in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Six planets are hanging out in early morning skies this month. Here’s how to spot them
Six planets are hanging out in the sky this month. It’s what’s known as a planetary parade and it’s the last one of the year.
 
Second-grader Aaminah Ingram-Kirk, 7, leads the way off the bus for the first day of school at Bishop McCort Catholic Elementary West on Tioga Street in Johnstown, Pa., Aug. 21, 2024. (Thomas Slusser/The Tribune-Democrat via AP, File)
How to get kids back on a sleep schedule for the school year
Experts say it’s worth easing kids back into a regular sleep routine with the start of a new school year.
 
President Donald Trump speaks at an event to mark National Purple Heart Day in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars of grants that are awarded by federal agencies.
 
The headquarters of the National Science Foundation is photographed May 29, 2025, in Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Judge allows the National Science Foundation to withhold hundreds of millions of research dollars
The National Science Foundation can continue to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars from researchers in several states until litigation aimed at restoring it plays out.
 
Landis Taylor, Assistant Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, watches fireflies as they illuminate a wooded area near the Woods Walk Trail on June 23, 2022, at Grandfather Mountain in Linville, N.C. (Allison Lee Isley/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP, File)
Fireflies are lighting up summer skies. But the glowing bugs are still on the decline
More fireflies than usual are lighting up summer evenings in the U.S. Northeast. But scientists say the lightning bugs are still on the decline.
 
This undated image provided by the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows tubeworms in an ocean trench. (Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences via AP)
A submersible finds sea creatures thriving in the deepest parts of the ocean
An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches.
 
Tufa towers are reflected in Mono Lake near Lee Vining, Calif., Nov. 15, 2004. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
A science journal pulled a controversial study about a bizarre life form against the authors’ wishes
A scientific journal has retracted a controversial study that hinted at the possibility of a bizarre life form.
 
A group of resident doctors talks with a senior doctor inside Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Foreign medical residents fill critical positions at US hospitals, but are running into visa issues
Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international medical residents set to start their training this week were delayed by the Trump administration’s travel and visa restrictions.
 
This photo provided by researcher Jonathan O'Neil shows an outcropping of about 4.16 billion year old rocks at the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northeastern Canada, with a knife to indicate scale. (Jonathan O'Neil via AP)
These Canadian rocks may be the oldest on Earth
Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Quebec has long been known for its ancient rocks, but researchers disagree on exactly how old they are.
 
This image provided by the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory shows 678 separate images taken by the observatory in just over seven hours of observing time. Combining many images in this way clearly reveals otherwise faint or invisible details, such as the clouds of gas and dust that comprise the Trifid nebula (top right) and the Lagoon nebula, which are several thousand light-years away from Earth. (NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory via AP)
The largest digital camera ever built has released its first shots of the universe
The largest digital camera ever built has released its first shots of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, unveiled vibrant images Monday of colorful nebulas, stars and galaxies.
 
This image provided by Ajay Narendra shows an Australian Bogong moth at the Ramshead Range of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. (Ajay Narendra via AP)
Meet the bug that uses the stars to navigate hundreds of miles
A new study finds an Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass.
 
This photo published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service on May 29, 2025, shows the top half of a wheat head, which is infected with Fusarium head blight, a costly fungal disease that can diminish the grain yield and quality of wheat, barley and certain other cereal crops. (Mathew Helm/U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service via AP)
What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus US authorities say was smuggled in from China?
Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer.
 
This image provided by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory shows the ring-shaped track that scientists used to study tiny particles called muons, July 20, 2023 in Batavia, Ill. (Ryan Postel/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory via AP)
A long-running experiment finds a tiny particle is still acting weird
Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment show a tiny particle continues to act strangely -- but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them.
 
This image provided by the American Museum of Natural History shows a new planetarium show showing a backwards S-shaped spiral in what's known as the Oort Cloud far beyond Pluto. (American Museum of Natural History via AP)
An accidental discovery at a planetarium opens a window into the universe’s inner workings
Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets.
 
An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky over the Tallinn bay of the Baltic sea in Tallinn, Estonia, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, file)
Northern lights could be visible again in some US states after weekend solar storms
Space weather forecasters say northern lights may be visible in parts of the northern United States following weekend solar storms.
 
This image provided by William Usaquen and Andrea Casas-Vargas shows the high plains in Bogota, Colombia where a new group of humans lived 6,000 years ago. (William Usaquen, Andrea Casas-Vargas via AP)
Ancient DNA reveals a new group of people who lived near land bridge between the Americas
Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America.
 
This image provided by Alexandre Lefebvre shows a projectile made from gray whale bone, dating back to about 18,000 years ago, in Abbaye d'Arthous, France, in March 2021. (Alexandre Lefebvre via AP)
Scientists date the oldest known tools made from whale bones to 20,000 years ago
Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow projectiles for hunting reindeer or bison, had been uncovered in excavations dating back over a century in the Bay of Biscay near Spain and France.
 
Medical researchers from universities and the National Institutes of Health rally near the Health and Human Services headquarters to protest federal budget cuts Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell, File)
Scientists have lost their jobs or grants in US cuts. Foreign universities want to hire them
As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the U.S. lost their jobs or grants.
 
Cleveland Indians right fielder Melky Cabrera sprays sunscreen before a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Sunday, July 22, 2018, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Sam Hodde, File)
You should wear sunscreen even if you have darker skin. Here’s why
Skin experts say people of color still need to wear sunscreen. The melanin in darker skin offers some extra protection from the sun, but dermatologists say that isn’t enough on its own.
 
This photo provided by Morgan Bennett-Smith shows a clownfish near an anemone in Kimbe Bay, off the coast of Papa New Guinea. (Morgan Bennett-Smith via AP)
Clownfish shrink their bodies to survive ocean heat waves
New research finds clownfish shrink their bodies to survive warming oceans. Scientists observed some of the orange-striped fish shrank during a heat wave off the coast of Papa New Guinea.
 
This 2007 photo provided by researchers shows the end of a wooden hunting spear estimated to be about 200,000 years old discovered in a coal mine in the German town of Schöningen. (C. S. Fuchs/Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege via AP)
Ancient wooden spears found in Germany may have been wielded by Neanderthals, a new study suggests
A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.
 
A hen stands on eggs inside her coop at at a farm in Glenview, Ill., on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)
Eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side, according to science
New experiments show eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side. It’s commonly thought that eggs are strongest at their ends because the arc-shaped bottom redirects the force of the impact and softens the blow.
 
This undated photo provided by Centivax in 2025 shows Tim Friede, who is hyper-immune to the venom of various snakes, with a water cobra wrapped around his arm. (Centivax via AP)
How the blood of a man who was bitten by hundreds of snakes could help save lives
A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.
 
This photo provided by Daniel Rubinoff in April 2025 shows a new species of carnivorous caterpillar, left, which uses a protective case made with insect parts, near a spider in Oahu, Hawaii. (Courtesy Daniel Rubinoff via AP)
A carnivorous ‘bone collector’ caterpillar dresses in the remains of its prey
A new carnivorous caterpillar that wears the remains of its prey has been dubbed the bone collector. The odd insect is only found on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
 
This image provided by Martin Surbeck shows a female bonobo being groomed by another in the Congo in 2020. (Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project via AP)
Bonobos in Congo form girl groups to fend off male aggression, study says
A new study shows female bonobos team up to fend off males in the wild. Scientists have long wondered why bonobos live in generally female-dominated societies since the males are physically bigger and stronger.
 
This image provided by Mike Olason shows the newly-discovered comet SWAN on April 6, 2025. (Mike Olason via AP)
A green comet likely is breaking apart and won’t be visible to the naked eye
Scientists say a newly discovered green comet likely has broken apart and won’t be visible to the naked eye.
 
This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant planets. (M. Kornmesser/ESO via AP)
Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists say
Scientists may have found a new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system that orbits two failed stars.
 
The northern lights appear over Anchorage, Alaska, on Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
Northern lights may be visible across more of the U.S. than usual tonight. See if your state is on the list
A strong solar storm is headed to Earth and this could cause colorful aurora displays in parts of the United States.
 
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