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Invictibellatrix amberina: fossil kept in a London museum drawer for 100 years is a new T. rex relative
A tiger-sized, long-clawed predator from 120 million years ago was hiding in the Natural History Museum's stores since 1924.
15 Oct 2026
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Dying Sun could break up the outer solar system billions of years sooner than thought
A new study finds the Sun's uneven death throes may scatter Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune within about a billion years of it becoming a white dwarf.
13 Oct 2026
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James Webb finds water clouds that thicken and thin on WISE 0855, the coldest brown dwarf known
Eleven hours of Webb data show patchy water clouds and rising carbon monoxide on a Jupiter-sized object 7.5 light-years away, colder than a Murree winter night.
11 Oct 2026
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Margaret Hamilton, who wrote the Apollo moon landing software, dies at 90
MIT says the computing pioneer died on 30 September. Her code kept Apollo 11 on track minutes before Eagle touched down in 1969.
9 Oct 2026
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Pakistan's first astronaut to fly from China on 25 November, Ahsan Iqbal says: Zeeshan Ali or Khurram Daud
The launch date is set 38 days out, but China has not yet said which of the two pilots training in Beijing will go. Pakistan now aims for a Moon landing by 2035.
28 Sept 2026
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WHO calls this El Nino a public health threat: cholera, dengue and a late monsoon
The WMO says it is the strongest El Nino in 40 years of records, running into 2027. The WHO names cholera, malaria, dengue and chikungunya, and delayed monsoons in parts of Asia.
22 Sept 2026
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NASA finds the Moon's biggest new crater in 17 years, 222 metres wide
The McGetchin impact site opened up between April and May 2024. Craters this size form on the Moon roughly once every 132 years.
17 Sept 2026