Friday, Dec. 12, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

More than 50 green meteors might streak across the sky every hour. Find a spot of dark sky, away from city lights, to enjoy the view.

A thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.

A new “ultrablack” fabric inspired by a bird’s feathers is the darkest ever created, according to its inventors.

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XMM-Newton sees comet 3I/ATLAS in X-ray light

When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December 6th, ground controllers expected a temporary loss of signal (LoS).…

"The natural question that comes up is: how many more space telescopes will be affected when all these constellations are launched?"

A black hole 30 million times the mass of the sun has produced winds one-fifth the speed of light, stunning scientists.

When I started my career in astrophysics at Princeton in 1987, my mentor John Bahcall asked me for a list of the computer codes that I…

Want to be a top notch candidate for hosting alien life? Then there's a few key requirements you should be aware of: Ideally, you're a large object like a moon or a planet; scientists suspect you also have an atmosphere and water; plus, you should orbit your …

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 years ago. The findings published in the journal Nature predate previous evidence by about 350,000 years. The team identified heated …

As if having to evade T. rexes wasn’t scary enough without these monsters lurking every time you came to drink.

After the arrival of the MS-28 spacecraft on Nov. 27, all eight docking ports on…

Just a handful of companies can make cadmium zinc telluride, a material with powerful properties.

The animal, recently spotted in the depths of Monterey Bay, can reach lengths of 13 feet and weigh up to 165 pounds.

Liftoff of the suborbital NS-37 mission is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. ET on Dec. 18.

Liftoff occurred at 5:01 p.m. EST on Thursday (Dec. 11).