1. Lights burning across sky create early Christmas excitement in Clarksville  Clarksville Now
2. Possible space debris reported across southern US sky  Fox Weather
3. Chinese satellite falls apart over Ark-La-Miss  Magnoliareporter
4. Fiery trail spotted in the skies over south Louisiana; Comet? Santa? What was it?  WAFB
5. Massive fireball spotted streaking across US skies — and it came from China  New York Post

1. What time is the NASA Parker Solar Probe's closest sun flyby ever on Christmas Eve?  Space.com
2. Parker Solar Probe to make closest approach yet to the sun  SpaceNews
3. NASA solar probe to fly closer to sun than any human-made object  NBC News
4. A Spacecraft Is About to Fly Into the Sun’s Atmosphere for the First Time  WIRED
5. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe aims to fly closer to the sun like never before  The Associated Press

New York man finds mastodon jaw while gardening in his backyard  KSL.comView Full Coverage on Google News

1. Space2Sea Antarctica: William Shatner, Neil deGrasse Tyson and NASA astronauts talk exploration and science from the Drake Passage  Space.com
2. Space2Sea Voyage of Legends in Antarctica: Join William Shatner, Neil deGrasse Tyson, former NASA astronauts and more in free webinar on space and science  Space.com
3. Space2Sea Antarctica: A student journalist's expedition to bottom of the world begins  Space.com

New superionic conducting electrolyte could enhance stability of all-solid-state lithium metal batteries  Phys.org

1. Physicists measure quantum geometry for first time  Phys.org
2. Pioneering approach expands possibilities for measuring quantum geometry in solids  Phys.org

1. Scientists Have Discovered a New Formidable Predator in the Deep Sea  The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel
2. Deep-sea predator discovered with a body made for ‘capturing, killing and feasting’, scientists say  New York Post
3. Ghost ships to ghost sharks: 10 wildest underwater discoveries of 2024  Popular Science
4. 26,000 feet undersea, scientists find a ghostly predator  Mashable
5. Deep-Sea Predator Built for Killing Discovered 8,000 Meters Underwater  VICE

1. Extreme Biological Risks to Life on Earth: A Global Call from Scientists to Halt Research on Mirror Bacteria  The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel
2. ‘Radical departure from known life’: Scientists warn of ‘mirror life’  Yahoo! Voices
3. A scientist working to create 'mirror life' discovered it could be 'a perfect bioweapon.' She's asking other researchers to stop.  Business Insider
4. “Mirror Bacteria” Warning: A New Kind of Life Could Pose a Global Threat  SciTechDaily
5. Scientists warn that 'mirror life' could destroy life on Earth. Read this before you panic  CBC.ca

'Rising temperatures melted corpses out of the Antarctic permafrost': The rise of one of Earth's most iconic trees in an uncertain world  Livescience.com

1. 47-Million-Year-Old “Alien Plant” Baffles Scientists With Strange Features  SciTechDaily
2. 'Alien plant' fossil discovered near Utah ghost town doesn't belong to any known plant families, living or extinct  Livescience.com
3. Fossils Reveal Mysterious 'Alien Plant' Is Unlike Any Other Known  ScienceAlert
4. Scientists stunned to find strange ‘alien plant’ that doesn’t belong to any known species  The Independent
5. This mysterious plant fossil belongs to a family that no longer exists  University of Florida

Something in Earth's Core May Be Altering The Length of Days  ScienceAlert

A Woman With a Rare Gene Mutation Fights to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate  The New York Times

Do black holes really evaporate — and how do we know?  Livescience.com

1. US scientists may have found a source of energy that could last thousands of years  The Economic Times
2. US scientists probe potentially massive energy source buried deep underground — and it has potential to power the globe for thousands of years  Yahoo! Voices
3. Just a fraction of the hydrogen hidden beneath Earth's surface could power Earth for 200 years, scientists find  Livescience.com
4. Model suggests Earth's subsurface may hold up to 5.6 × 10⁶ million metric tons of natural hydrogen  Phys.org
5. There’s something better than hydrogen on the planet: America has found it in white rocks  ecoticias.com

Scientists Discover Heart-Saving Powers in Olive, Grape, Garlic, Rosemary, and Saffron  SciTechDaily

Groundbreaking 21-Million Cell Study Revises Our Understanding of Aging  SciTechDaily

1. Nanoscale Imaging And Control Of Altermagnetism In MnTe  Hackaday
2. New Type of Magnetism Discovered That Could Make Electronics 1000x Faster  SciTechDaily
3. Tiny particle, huge potential: Scientists discover new type of quasiparticle present in all magnetic materials  Phys.org
4. New type of magnetism promises 1000x faster electronics  The Brighter Side of News
5. New Class of Magnets Promises To Supercharge Tech Speeds by 1000X  Newsweek

1. Shocking Real-Time Satellite Images Show Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melting at an Unprecedented Rate  The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel
2. ESA and NASA deliver first joint picture of Greenland Ice Sheet melting  European Space Agency
3. Greenland Ice Sheet Elevation Change from CryoSat and ICESat-2 (VIDEO)  EurekAlert
4. Greenland ice sheet seen melting in real-time from Earth orbit  Earth.com
5. 8 Facts About Ice Melt in Greenland and Antarctica  MSN

1. A Discovery Straight Out of Sci-Fi: Astronomers Spot 'Star Twins' in Deadly Dance Around Milky Way’s Black Hole  The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel
2. A binary system in the S cluster close to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*  Nature.com
3. Binary stars found near the black hole at the centre of our Galaxy, and they could have planets orbiting them  Sky at Night Magazine
4. Scientists discover 2 stars orbiting our galaxy's supermassive black hole in lockstep — and they could point to a type of planet never seen before  Livescience.com
5. Astronomers discover 1st binary stars orbiting supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way  Space.com

1. Scientists Just Discovered Magic at the Large Hadron Collider  SciTechDaily
2. Colliding top quarks reveal hidden quantum 'magic'  Phys.org
3. Twin Brothers Find ‘Magic’ in Quarks at Large Hadron Collider  Gizmodo

1. SpaceX launches second mid-inclination rideshare mission  SpaceNews
2. SpaceX launches 30 satellites in second mid-inclination rideshare mission  Fox Business
3. SpaceX Falcon 9 launch to cause sonic boom in Ventura County  CBS News
4. SpaceX launches Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission on Falcon 9 rocket from California  Spaceflight Now
5. SpaceX launches Bandwagon-2 rideshare from Vandenberg  NASASpaceflight.com

1. How old are Saturn's rings? Study suggests they could be 4.5 billion years old just like the planet  KSL.com
2. Pollution resistance of Saturn’s ring particles during micrometeoroid impact  Nature.com
3. Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thought  Space.com
4. We might have been completely wrong about the origin of Saturn's rings, new study claims  Livescience.com
5. Saturn's Fresh-Looking Rings Could Be as Old as The Solar System Itself  ScienceAlert

How are auroras made? Space rocket takes a closer look at the Northern Lights  Earth.comView Full Coverage on Google News

1. Dark Energy Debunked: Scientists Claim Accelerated Expansion of the Universe Is Just an 'Illusion'  The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel
2. Dark energy 'doesn't exist' so can't be pushing 'lumpy' universe apart, physicists say  Phys.org
3. Scientists Claim Dark Energy does not Exist, and Accelerated Expansion of Universe is an Illusion Caused by Gravity slowing down time  LBV Magazine
4. New study blows dark energy theory to bits, says universe expansion is lumpy  Yahoo! Voices
5. Dark energy mystery is finally SOLVED - as scientists come up with a radical new theory to explain the mysteri  Daily Mail

1. The moon might be older than scientists previously thought; a new study shines light on its history  Phys.org
2. Tidally driven remelting around 4.35 billion years ago indicates the Moon is old  Nature.com
3. Ancient Moon Melt Event May Explain 150-Million-Year Gap in Age Estimates  Scientific American
4. The moon may be older than previously thought, study finds  NBC News
5. New study confirms the moon is older than we realized — and reveals why we previously got it wrong  Livescience.com