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Most exoplanets are discovered as they transit, or move across, their parent stars. But a new study details the opposite scenario: As a giant planet crossed its host star, peculiarities in its transit signature revealed a new discovery about the star itself — in particular, a spot that occupies an enormous 7% of the star’s surface and has lasted at …

Caught on Camera: Rare Footage Reveals How a Giant Earthquake Tore the Earth in Seconds  SciTechDaily CCTV Footage Captures the First-Ever Video of an Earthquake Fault in Motion, Shining a Rare Light on Seismic Dynamics  Smithsonian Magazine Watch the Earth split in real time: Stunning footage reveals a 2.5-meter fault slip in seconds  ScienceDaily The first video of Earth’s surface lurching sideways in …

The next four people to launch to the International Space Station have arrived at their launch site. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, together with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov flew on a NASA aircraft from Ellington Field in Houston, Texas to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Saturday (July …

Update (9:31 p.m.) – According to base officials, the Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched at 9:31 p.m. Saturday from SLC-4E._________________________________________________________________________ Update (09:05 p.m.): – According to base officials, the Falcon 9 rocket launch was pushed back Saturday evening and is set to take off from SLC-4E at 9:31 p.m._________________________________________________________________________ Original story: SpaceX is targeting Saturday evening for the launch of …

At some point, you have probably heard somewhere that oil comes from dinosaurs, as if every time you fill up at the gas station, you are pumping refined velociraptor into your Volvo. It’s a vivid image, but it’s not true. Despite how widespread the belief is, oil isn’t made from decomposed dinosaurs. “For some strange reason, the idea that oil …

Strange sighting in the skies over South Carolina early Saturday? This might explain them  WLTX SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral  Spaceflight Now What was in the sky this morning?  WYFF SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida on Saturday doubleheader (video)  Space SpaceX Starlink launch seen Saturday morning in North Carolina sky  WRAL.com Source link

The European Space Agency is throwing its weight behind a design effort for a hypersonic spaceplane, with hopes of getting the final idea airborne (and spaceborne) by 2031. The ESA is putting up funding for the Invictus research program, which wants to achieve one of the space industry’s most coveted breakthroughs: The ability for …

There is an asteroid approximately the size of a building that has been on the radar of many astronomers for a long time due to its initial potential to collide with the Earth. However, there is no need to worry anymore, as its trajectory has shifted slightly since it was first detected. It is now expected to miss the Earth …

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Image by Getty / Futurism One person’s junk is another’s treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of “junk” DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function are actually pretty important after all. The work, published as a study in the journal Science Advances, focuses on transposable elements, a class …