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A giant plasma plume dubbed “The Beast” was recently spotted dancing above the sun as it showered our home star with blobs of impossibly fast fire. The shapeshifting projection, which stretched more than 13 times wider than Earth, was the first of several sizable solar structures to emerge in recent days. The animalistic mass appeared Saturday (July 12) over the …

New research has uncovered a fascinating link between volcanic eruptions and mysterious structures deep within Earth’s interior, challenging long-standing assumptions about the planet’s lower mantle. These structures, known as “BLOBS,” may be the key to understanding some of the most catastrophic volcanic events in Earth’s history. Are Earth’s Deep Secrets Triggering Doomsday Eruptions? Volcanic eruptions can have devastating effects, ranging …

Groundbreaking Study Reveals Tortoises Have Feelings, Similar to Ours  SciTechDaily Grumpy tortoise? Reptiles can experience mood swings too  Earth.com Tortoises Have Feelings Too, Or At Least Moods  IFLScience Tortoises can feel emotions and mood swings, groundbreaking research reveals  Daily Jang New study shows tortoises experience feelings similar to our own  Phys.org Source link

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The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30 million. The 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock named NWA 16788 was discovered in the Sahara Desert in Niger by a meteorite hunter …

In a groundbreaking discovery published in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has confirmed the existence of a rare object located far beyond Neptune. Known as 2020 VN40, this trans-Neptunian object is in a unique orbital resonance with the giant planet Neptune. For every ten orbits Neptune completes, …

Most people assume an extinct volcano lies silent forever. Yet in Bolivia, the long‑quiet Uturuncu volcano keeps rumbling, forcing scientists to rethink what “dead” really means. A new study mapped more than 1,700 tiny earthquakes to reveal why the mountain twitches instead of blows. Professor Mike Kendall of the University of Oxford, who helped lead the project, calls …

SpaceX sent 26 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Tuesday (July 15), after a launch from southern California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:05 p.m. PDT (10:05 p.m. EDT or 0205 GMT July 18), escaping the fog and cloud cover blanketing Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The satellites (Group 15-2, according …

Earth Could Be in a Massive Cosmic Bubble That’s Warping the Universe, Astrophysicists Reveal  SciTechDaily Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, say scientists  BBC Science Focus Magazine Big-Bang echoes unmask a billion-light-year hole around Earth—and it’s stretching space faster  ScienceDaily Sound of The Big Bang Suggests Our Galaxy Floats Inside a Void  ScienceAlert Is Earth inside a huge void? ‘Sound …

Our cosmic neighborhood may be far more crowded than previous estimates have suggested. New research hints the Milky Way could have many more small dwarf galaxy “satellites” around it than expected. The team, comprised of cosmologists from Durham University, combined supercomputer simulations with mathematical modeling to predict the existence of missing Milky Way “orphan” galaxies. The researchers’ novel technique suggests …