BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system:

Celeritas, a new ORNL-developed software tool, is breaking barriers in particle physics by allowing simulations from massive detector experiments to run on the fastest supercomputers, accelerating answers about the nature of the universe! 🔗 bit.ly/3XQixSA

Attention community college students in STEM! This summer, you could have the opportunity to get incredible hands-on experience at an U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory! Applications for the 2026 summer session of our Community College Internships are now open: science.osti.gov/wdts/cci

🌕Today! Last supermoon of 2025.

AI systems are quickly entering high-stakes areas like education and healthcare, where public trust relies on accuracy and clear protections. While states have been stepping up with targeted rules, AI preemption would remove those safeguards with nothing to replace them.

Many people associate colon cancer with old age, but that's not the case anymore, as the number of young people being diagnosed is on the rise. to.pbs.org/4rTD7Q6

Werner Heisenberg was born #OnThisDay 124 years ago. At just 23 years old, while seeking relief from severe hay fever on the remote island of Helgoland, Heisenberg laid the foundations of quantum mechanics – a breakthrough that reshaped modern physics. Only seven years later,

What can ancient Chinese texts teach us about solar eclipses and Earth's rotation? space.com/astronomy/sun/…

Tonight, the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has issued a G3 (STRONG) watch for December 9 and a G1 (minor) watch for December 10 due to a coronal mass ejection (CME) that is directed at Earth. Auroras may be seen further equator ward than usual Monday night. Let me

Geminid meteor shower 2025 peaks next week. Here's what you need to know about this year's best meteor shower space.com/stargazing/gem…

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one observed so far. It hails from a time when the universe was rather young. to.pbs.org/4oNcXMh

Snap, crackle, boom ⚡ Our Perseverance Mars rover recorded a long-suspected phenomena—electrical sparks and mini-sonic booms created by dust devils on Mars. Learn more about this discovery and what it means for our understanding of the Red Planet: go.nasa.gov/3MnGXk6

Congratulations to the MicroBooNE team on their latest publication in Nature. Check out our video with Prof Kirsty Duffy explaining how their study went hunting for 'sterile' neutrinos. youtube.com/watch?v=gMlkpz… MicroBooNE Fermilab

There are FOUR CMEs that could impact Earth soon! Flare, source, and impact timing: M1.1 from AR 4299: Dec 10, 8 UT (glancing blow) M8.1 from AR 4299: Dec 9, 5 UT (direct hit) M2.4 from AR 4299: Dec 10, 3 UT (direct hit) X1.1 from AR 4298: Dec 11, 10 UT (glancing blow)

Researchers have found evidence that storms on the Sun can lead to high blood pressure. There’s also evidence that the planets may keep solar storms at less intense levels. Join us for solar highs & lows and much more, this week — on StarDate! ow.ly/wggz50XFS4O

The foundation for an international nuclear order that shapes our world today, from medicine to energy to innovation, was laid in December 1953 when former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s delivered his “Atoms for Peace” speech at the United Nations General Assembly in 1953.

Did you know? Nuclear techniques help confirm that a 93-million-year-old crocodile found in Central Queensland, Australia, devoured a juvenile dinosaur, based on remains found in the fossilised stomach contents. 🦕🐊 More from ANSTO: bit.ly/3Yh0Yvi

Donald Trump is swooping in to save farmers… from Donald Trump

An industrial project in Chile threatens Earth's darkest sky. 28 leading astronomers signed an open letter urging to move it space.com/astronomy/an-i…

We are currently at a Kp 6.33 (G2) and experiencing a moderate geomagnetic storm due to a CME impact. Mid-latitude aurora is possible tonight, but use/follow real-time space weather tools/data to most accurately monitor these conditions. Webcams to track auroral activity: