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A gigantic, backwards “letter S” recently appeared slap bang in the middle of the sun, moments before our home star unleashed a massive plume of plasma that later smashed into Earth, temporarily disrupting our planet’s magnetic field. The bizarre S-shaped structure, which bears a resemblance to the iconic symbol of Superman, took shape on Sept. 4, less than an hour …

Space enthusiasts and astronomers worldwide are keeping a close watch on the skies as NASA confirms the approach of a massive asteroid. Known as asteroid 2025 QV9, this celestial object, discovered only recently, measures roughly the size of an airplane and is set to make a close flyby of Earth on September 10. Traveling at incredible speeds through space, the …

Back in September 2023, scientists monitoring seismic activity across the world were all met with a mysterious signal making its way throughout the whole of the planet. “We were baffled – the signal was unlike any previously recorded,” Stephen Hicks, Research Fellow in Computational Seismology at UCL, and Kristian Svennevig, Senior Researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, …

When the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis makes its breathtakingly close flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029, more than 2 billion people across Africa and Western Europe will be able to watch it drift across the night sky. Under clear skies, the space rock will appear as a faint star — about as bright as the stars in the …

The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies of the Solar System, only Earth has a dense atmosphere, liquid water on its surface, and the organic chemistry that supports life. However, these conditions did not exist billions of years ago when Earth was still young. While …

A stunning new telescope image has revealed the growing tail of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The luminous limb is starting to take shape as the icy interloper zooms ever closer to the sun on its one-way trip through the solar system. 3I/ATLAS is a roughly 7-mile-wide (11 kilometers) comet that was first spotted in early July and is zooming toward …

It is almost half a century since Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to study Jupiter, Saturn, and the atmosphere of Titan. It continues to send data back to Earth. Although engineers reckon that the aging spacecraft might survive well into the 2030s before eventually passing out of range of the Deep Space Network, …

You may already feel as if there’s not enough time in the day.  But it’s not just your imagination – the days have been getting shorter.  According to scientists, July 9, July 22 and August 5 this year were between 1.3 and 1.51 milliseconds shorter than the standard 24-hour day.  Although the exact reason is still a mystery, there could be …

IN A NUTSHELL 🧪 Researchers recreated a chemical reaction in the lab that could explain the origins of life. 🌊 The reaction occurred in conditions mimicking early Earth environments, such as primitive ponds. 🔗 This study shows a natural binding between RNA and amino acids, forming basic protein structures. 🌌 The findings bridge the gap between metabolism and genetics, offering …

The asteroid is expected to miss Earth by only 167 million miles. By Wyatt Williams 5 hours ago Share This image composed from multiple exposures and provided by NSF’s NOIRLab shows a comet streaking across a star field above the International Gemini Observatory on Cerro Pachon, near La Serena, Chile. (NSF’s NoirLab via AP) A recently discovered comet is becoming …