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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 9/22/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 9/22/25

Enceladus’ ocean may not have produced precursor chemicals for life

The icy moon of Saturn is a contender for hosting life

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 9/19/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 9/19/25

A primordial black hole may have spewed the highest energy neutrino ever found

These theoretical black holes may have formed right after the Big Bang

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 9/9/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 9/9/25

Seismic waves suggest Mars has a solid heart

The purported solid inner core has a radius of about 600 kilometers

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 9/5/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 9/5/25

Astronomers detect the brightest ever fast radio burst

No one knows what produces these flashes of radio waves

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 9/2/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 9/2/25

A Mars rock analysis tool proved its mettle on a chance find from Arizona

One researcher's find resembles a Martian sample whose spots could be a sign of ancient life

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/29/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/29/25

A newborn planet munches on gas and dust surrounding its host star

It’s the first time a young planet has been seen shaping rings of gas and dust

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/22/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/22/25

NASA’s Webb telescope spotted a new moon orbiting Uranus

It’s the planet’s 29th identified moon

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/20/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/20/25

A dying star revealed its heart 

It’s the first observation of an innermost shell of a massive star

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/15/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/15/25

The oldest known black hole formed more than 13.3 billion years ago

The body and its surroundings make up one of the little red dots seen by the Webb telescope

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/14/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/14/25

Cosmic rays could, in theory, sustain life on other worlds

The radiation can break underground water into an ingredient for life-giving energy

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/7/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/7/25

A giant planet may orbit our closest sunlike neighbor

The Webb telescope spotted the planet candidate near Alpha Centauri A

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/4/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/4/25

Seven superclouds sit just beyond the solar system

Most likely parents to star-forming gas clouds, they’re the sun’s largest neighbors

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/1/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 8/1/25

The Webb space telescope spies its first black holes snacking on stars

The celestial bodies sit in dusty environments that block most other telescopes’ views

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 7/29/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 7/29/25

Two colliding galaxies may have birthed this black hole

The growing giant contains the mass of 1 million suns

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 7/16/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 7/16/25

This star offers the earliest peek at the birth of a planetary system like ours

The surrounding gas and dust might be producing the first bits of planets

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 7/11/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 7/11/25

New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We’re still learning from it

It's the only spacecraft that has flown by the distant dwarf planet

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 7/3/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 7/3/25

Nearly half of the universe’s ordinary matter was uncharted, until now

Much of it resides in strings of hot gas between galaxies

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Science News McKenzie Prillaman 7/1/25 Science News McKenzie Prillaman 7/1/25

A rare chance to see two exploding stars is happening in the southern sky

The Milky Way stars are in two Southern Hemisphere constellations

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