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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Re-Entry and Splashdown – YouTube Watch On SpaceX’s Crew-10 astronauts will return to Earth today (Aug. 9) after living on the International Space Station for nearly five months, and you can watch the action live. The mission’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endurance, is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast today at …

How to Watch the Perseids, the Strongest Meteor Shower of the Summer  The New York Times Blame it on the moon. This year’s Perseids meteors won’t be as visible at their peak  NPR Attention stargazers! It’s time for one of the best meteor showers of the year — the Perseids  CBC The Perseid meteor shower 2025 peaks Aug. 12-13: Here’s what to expect …

G Caspari and M Vavulin Daniel Riday A maze of books  This is one of the world’s largest private book collections, known as Anke Gowda Jnana Prathistana, or “Knowledge Shrine”, in the village of Kennalu, near Mysore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It’s thought to be home to more than 1.5 million books. They’re written in 22 Indian languages, …

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Black holes are among the most enigmatic and mysterious objects in the Universe, and our understanding of them is still limited by the extreme challenges of studying them. However, a new proposal, published in iScience, from astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University in China might open an unprecedented path to exploring these mysterious phenomena. Black Holes as Cosmic Laboratories The …

Credit: Adapted from Getty One morning in 2009, Jacqueline Tabler woke up with the solution to a laboratory problem that had been plaguing her for months. She got out of bed, grabbed her notebook, and started sketching out an experiment that had come to her in a dream. Tabler, then a developmental-biology PhD student at King’s College London, was struggling …

The Milky Way reflects on the Dillon Reservoir in Summit County. The Perseid meteor shower is expected to light up the sky with hundreds of shooting stars this August.Colton Sturgeon/Courtesy photo Colorado’s night skies will be filled with hundreds of shooting stars this month as one of the best meteor showers of the year rains down on the Rocky Mountains. …

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A meteorite that punched a hole i n a Georgia homeowner’s roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself, according to scientist who examined fragments of the space rock. People in several Southern states reported seeing the mysterious fireball in broad daylight on June 26 as it hurtled …

Mystery early human relatives reached Sulawesi over a million years ago, oldest evidence found on ‘hobbit’ island neighbor  Archaeology News Online Magazine Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene  Nature 1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed  Live Science Stone tool discovery could offer new clue in mystery of …

Astronomers have spotted two massive galaxies locked in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years from Earth — and for the first time in such a nearby galaxy, watched as a faint stream of stars is being pulled from one into the other. The observations, made in the galaxy cluster Abell 3667, revealed a faint, million light-year-long bridge of stars connecting …