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August’s almost full sturgeon moon rises near sunset tonight in the southeast just below the moonlight-obscured swath of the Milky Way. For the next couple of mornings, Jupiter is visible in the East well before dawn to the lower left of Venus.(WTOP/Greg Redferm) For the next couple of mornings, Jupiter is visible in the East well before dawn to the …

Nobelium is now the heaviest element to have been directly detected as part of a larger molecule. The new nobelium complexes were created as part of a series of investigations charting the chemistry on the edge of the actinide series. Nobelium is element 102, and is too unstable to exist naturally on Earth. It was first made in particle accelerators in …

Astronaut retires after returning from troubled test flight and extended stay in space  AOL.comView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

In what first appears like a rather morbid game of “which would you rather?”, researchers have released a new study that games out how likely the average person is to die should one of various mishaps like car crashes, carbon monoxide poisoning, and lightning strikes, occur—or because a giant asteroid destroys the Earth. The probability of a planet-annihilating asteroid crashing …

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday. “Jim’s character and steadfast courage helped our nation reach the Moon and turned a potential tragedy into …

The test tube carrying the Pakistan-origin wheat seeds was aboard the SpaceX Dragon Capsule, which was launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre on August 1. Space, as all Trekkies agree, is the final frontier. It is mysterious, magnificent, mighty, and draws in earthlings who have long dreamed of exploring other worlds. In recent years, these dreams have crossed over from …

Two Wild New Theories Could Finally Explain Dark Matter  SciTechDaily Mirror universe on the wall, is this where dark matter comes from after all?  cosmosmagazine.com Dark Mirror of Our Own Universe Could Explain Quirks in Gravity  ScienceAlert Two bold dark matter theories could reveal the universe’s missing mass  The Brighter Side of News New theory suggests dark matter came from a hidden ‘mirror world’  Earth.com …

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover continues to beam home incredible sights from the Red Planet surface. This week, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) released an enhanced-color mosaic of 96 separate images taken by Perseverance on May 26, 2025 that together create an 360-degree panorama of a location on Mars called “Falbreen.” This area contains some of the oldest terrain Perseverance has …

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A rude awakening  Nature Source link