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S301 comes closer to Sagittarius A* than any star tracked before, reaching 25,000 km per second. Its orbit could let astronomers measure how fast the black hole spins.
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The Moon's shadow crossed Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain on 12 August 2026. Research teams used a high-altitude jet and balloons to work above the weather.
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Two mammoth-ivory carvings from Hohle Fels, weighing 1.3 and 0.7 grams, are the smallest figurines yet found in the Swabian Jura caves, the University of Tübingen said.
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A Harvard-led team reported gas escaping from a rocky planet in its star's habitable zone. The signal appeared on one night in 2024 and was absent a year later.
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