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In September 2026, Catalina Sky Survey spotted 2026 RW1 about seven hours before it burned up over the Indian Ocean; the 0.6–1.3-metre rock’s entry point was fixed to under 100 metres
How does an East African pastoralist community keep grazing its cattle across the same rangelands where lion, elephant and giraffe populations have recovered over roughly two decades, even as fences and farms fragment the corridors around them?
Between 2020 and 2024, a Chinese-led team used the submersible Fendouzhe to survey seven hadal regions in the Indo-Pacific and found rich protist-dominated communities living on rocks more than nine kilometres down, where hard-substrate life had been largely unknown
Saturn's famous northern hexagon has stood in place for more than 40 years of observations, and now Hubble has caught a matching 10-sided wave beginning to form around the planet's south pole as its seasons swing that hemisphere back into view
