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Fall stargazing 2026: The best skywatching sights in autumn (and how to see them)
21+ hour, 32+ min ago (1502+ words) As longer nights draw in over the fall, we see the return of some stargazing favorites, including the Andromeda Galaxy, the Pleiades star cluster and the first supermoon of the season. With fall now upon us, many of us will…...
Haunting Hubble 'bubble' image captures cosmic cycle of destruction and creation
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (265+ words) A spectacular new Hubble Space Telescope image reveals almost 30,000 newborn stars around an enormous cavity carved into a stellar nursery in a neighboring galaxy. What it is: The nebula LHA 120-N44 Where it is: 160,000 light-years away, in the constellation Dorado When…...
Why do cats lick each other?
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (524+ words) Cats lick each other for multiple reasons, and some are more mysterious than others. In a multicat household, it's common to see one cat licking another. When some people see this behavior, known as allogrooming ("allo" means "another individual"), they…...
Scientists got diamond's melting point wrong by more than 1,000 degrees, crushing new laser experiment reveals
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (344+ words) Scientists blasted diamonds with lasers to get the best measurement of the mineral's melting point yet. The new, more accurate numbers could help improve fusion experiments and studies of giant planets. Scientists melted diamonds with a powerful laser to take…...
A Harvest Moon with 5 planets on the side: September is the best month for stargazing, and this year is extra special
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (361+ words) Generally mild weather and increasing hours of darkness make September a great month for observing, and this year, there's a particularly busy sky. There may be no better month to get outside and look at the stars than September, when…...
'America's Nobel' prizes go to sleep and hemophilia researchers, and to Michael J. Fox for Parkinson's advocacy
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (835+ words) The Lasker Foundation has announced the winners of its 2026 awards for basic medical research, clinical science and public service. This year's Lasker Awards — coveted prizes for biomedical research that are sometimes called "America's Nobel Prizes" — have gone to scientists behind…...
Watch the first-ever footage of a rare deep-sea squid in the northeastern Pacific
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (484+ words) A rare sighting of a bigfin squid near an underwater mountain off California is the first confirmed live observation of the bizarre animal in the northeastern Pacific, researchers say. A bizarre squid has been filmed haunting the northeastern Pacific Ocean…...
Do you think Al could ever become self-aware?
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (290+ words) Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Live Science. Formerly, she was the Content Manager at Space.com and before that the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a book author, with her upcoming book…...
If AI thinks it's conscious, it's more likely to believe in vampires, karma and ghosts, new study shows. What does it mean for how we use it?
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (1062+ words) A new study shows that measures to stop AI's claims of consciousness have unintended consequences for non-human entities Removing safety guardrails that stop artificial intelligence (AI) from claiming that it's conscious also makes it more prone to express belief in…...
Arctic warming fuels 2 distinct climate regimes in Siberia that could wake up a methane 'sleeping giant"
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (418+ words) New research finds that western Siberia is becoming wetter as the world warms, while eastern Siberia seems to be getting drier. And both these conditions are fueling a rise in methane emissions, spelling trouble for the climate. Two distinct climate…...