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Scientists May Have Found Life’s Building Blocks In Planet-Forming Disk For First Time  Study Finds Life might have come from outer space, scientists say  The Independent Stepping Stones To Life-Crucial Molecules Found In Planet-Forming Disk: “It’s Really Exciting!”  IFLScience The evolution of life may have its origins in outer space  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften Are the ‘Seeds of Life’ Assembled in Space? A …

The Earth has been spinning unusually fast recently. Last year on July 4, our planet set a record by completing a full spin 1.66 milliseconds (0.00166 seconds) faster than usual, according to timeanddate.com. One year later, on July 10, 2025, Earth completed a daily rotation that scientists estimate was 1.36 milliseconds faster than usual, giving us another particularly short day. …

From CCTV and smartphones to dashcams and smart doorbells, cameras follow your every step in the 21st century. While the constant threat of ever-watching eyes may be turning us into a self-conscious surveillance society, it does make for some interesting science occasionally. Case in point: a security camera in Myanmar captured something never before seen on film: a strike-slip fault …

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we’d been awaiting for five long years – an infrared photo of two dying stars we’d requested from the Very Large Telescope in Chile. I gasped – the stars were wreathed in a huge spiral of dust, like a snake eating its own …

NASA’s Sahara Shock: The Desert’s Mysterious Greening Sparks Fierce Battle Between Climate Optimists, Deniers, and Geopolitical Hawks  Rude Baguette Source link

Topline Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in 2020, it takes 1,655 Earth-years to orbit the sun. The news comes just weeks after 2023 KQ14 — nicknamed “Ammonite” — was found beyond Neptune …

“If you can be smart about what you’re taking pictures of, then you only image the ground and skip the clouds. That way, you’re not storing, processing, and downloading all this imagery researchers really can’t use,” said Ben Smith of JPL, an associate with NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office, which funds the Dynamic Targeting work. “This technology will help scientists …

In the rugged badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, a groundbreaking discovery has recently captured the attention of paleontologists and dinosaur enthusiasts alike. In July 2024, an extraordinary set of dinosaur footprints was uncovered at this UNESCO World Heritage Site. Footprints from the Past According to Discover Wildlife, Dinosaur Provincial Park has long been a rich source of …

A new Mars exploration idea seemingly would drop a hornet’s nest of helicopters from high above the Red Planet. The idea comes from the world of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) concepts here on Earth, but is designed for exploring another world: Mars. AeroVironment of Arlington, Virginia and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory today debuted “Skyfall,” a concept for deploying next-generation Mars …