NEW YORK — For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth. Sotheby’s in New York will be auctioning what’s known as NWA 16788 on Wednesday as part of a natural history-themed sale that also includes a juvenile Ceratosaurus dinosaur skeleton that’s …
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NEW YORK (AP) — For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth. Sotheby’s in New York will be auctioning what’s known as NWA 16788 on Wednesday as part of a natural history-themed sale that also includes a juvenile Ceratosaurus dinosaur skeleton …
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IAI launches Dror-1 communications satellite to reach 36,000 km above Earth with the help of SpaceX The Jerusalem Post Live coverage: SpaceX to launch unspecified satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now Israel’s most-advanced communications satellite successfully launched into space The Times of Israel SpaceX launches mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit Space Israeli communications satellite ‘Dror 1’ launched into …
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Astronomers who examined the sound waves from the Big Bang say that the Earth — and the entire Milky Way galaxy we call home — could be trapped in a huge void billions of light years across. Their study, which was just presented at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in the UK, could solve one of cosmology’s greatest …
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A new fossil skull, dug out of purple siltstone in northern China, belongs to a creature that walked the planet about 259 million years ago. The animal was named Yinshanosaurus angustus, and the find helps fill a gap in the family tree of large plant‑eating reptiles that roamed just before the greatest die‑off in Earth’s history. Unearthing Yinshanosaurus angustus Dr. Jian …
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A discarded can tab, locked inside a new type of rock on England’s Cumbrian coast, tells a startling story about what happens when industry and nature collide. Geologists have confirmed that steel slag from old furnaces has fused into solid rock in only 35 years, overturning information from textbooks that marks rock formation in spans of geologic ages. How waste becomes …
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FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA – JUNE 10: U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete … More Hegseth are greeted by 18th Airborne Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Gregory Anderson and other military and civilian leaders at the Holland Drop Zone on June 10, 2025 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Trump is traveling to Fort Bragg Army base to observe …
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In late 2022, NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth. The small spacecraft smashed into asteroid Didymos’ moonlet Dimorphos at a violent 14,000 mph, knocking it severely off course. But three years later, astronomers found …
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Lockheed Martin has announced the details of a proposal to take over NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, tasked with retrieving the samples that the Perseverance rover on the red planet has already collected. These samples have great scientific value, including the possibility of the evidence of life. While originally conceived as an in-house …
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Magnetic explosions known as Ellerman bombs surround a sunspot in this photo from astrophotographer Philippe Tosi (Earth added for scale). (Image credit: Philippe Tosi) A new sunspot emerging over the eastern limb of the sun is putting on an explosive show and it’s heading our way. Sunspot region 4136 was recently captured crackling with dozens of magnetic explosions known as …
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