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A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

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Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

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Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to reduce these tensions.