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Here are the latest reports from The Washington Posts ‘Speaking of Science’. Leaping eels and manipulative babies: What you may have missed in science this week You probably didn’t know moss was this cool. Yes, that moss — the kind that grows on trees...

Last month, I interviewed Amber Straughn, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who studies the evolution of galaxies. She's part of the team working on what will essentially be the most powerful telescope ever built: the James Webb...

One hundred and one years ago this October, a Scottish astronomer named Robert Innes pointed a camera at a grouping of stars near the Southern Cross, the defining feature of the night skies above his adopted Johannesburg. He was looking for a small companion...

Lola Gayle, STEAM Register The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to help in the search for planets in the nearby star system Alpha Centauri. These planets could eventually be targets for future...

Sagittarius A (Sgr A) is a complex radio source consisting of the supernova remnant Sagittarius A East, the spiral structure Sagittarius A West, and a bright compact radio source at the centre of the spiral structure, called Sagittarius A*. Sagittarius...