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Satellites watch glaciers melting in Patagonia | Space photo of the day for Oct. 22, 2025
New satellite imagery from the European Space Agency reveals nearly four decades of dramatic ice loss for two of Patagon...

Diagnostic dilemma: A toddler accidently ate gonorrhea bacteria from a lab dish
In a bizarre medical case published in 1984, a young boy was inadvertently exposed to an STI-causing bacteria in a lab d...

Volcanic explosions on Mars may have left massive ice deposits at the Red Planet's equator
Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet's equ...

Plants self-organize in a 'hidden order,' echoing pattern found across nature
Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry...

Watch SpaceX launch its record-breaking 133rd Falcon 9 mission of the year today
SpaceX will launch its record-breaking 133rd Falcon 9 mission of 2025 today (Oct.

The 'Doom' movie is 20 years old: Looking back at Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's dreadful Martian action flick
Not even The People's Champion can save you from this Martian disaster.

James Webb telescope finds that galaxies in the early universe were much more chaotic than we thought
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, finding that gala...

China's 1st reusable rocket test fires engines ahead of debut flight (video)
LandSpace conducted a static-fire test with its Zhuque-3 rocket recently, an important step in the prep work ahead of th...

Comet 3I/ATLAS could soon shower NASA's Jupiter probe in charged particles. Will it reveal more about the interstellar invader?
At the end of October Europa Clipper will fly in line with 3I/ATLAS’ ion tail — but will any of the charged particles re...

Neil deGrasse Tyson on his new book and the hidden dangers of defunding science: 'That will ultimately bite you in the ass' (exclusive)
We spoke with Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new Q&A book "Just Visiting This Planet: Further Scientific Adventures of Me...

Chemistry on Saturn's huge moon Titan is even weirder than we thought
Titan's chemical inventory is believed to bear some resemblance to the prebiotic soup on the early Earth.

New eye implants combined with augmented-reality glasses help blind people read again in small trial
Of the 38 patients with age-related macular degeneration, 80% were able to read again after having the eye implant and u...

Unitree's H2 robot poses, pirouettes and pulls off deft karate moves with eerily lifelike movement
Chinese robotics startup Unitree has shown off its latest humanoid robot, the H2 "Destiny Awakening" — and it's eerily l...

'Illegal' metal detectorist found a huge hoard of Roman treasure in Germany — and kept it hidden for 8 years
A man found a Roman-era hoard in Germany dating to around 2,000 years ago, but he took eight years to tell authorities a...

'Doom' at 20 — a staggeringly dull movie that really should have been left buried on Mars
Not even Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson can save you from this Martian disaster.