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Here’s a story you might have read before in a popular science book or seen in a documentary. It’s the one about early Earth as a lifeless, volcanic hellscape. When our planet was newly formed, the story goes, the surface was a barren wasteland of sharp rocks, strewn with lava flows from erupting volcanoes. The air was an unbreathable fume …

A “devil” comet’s water is strikingly similar to the water on Earth, researchers have discovered. The finding supports the idea that water was brought to our planet through comet impacts, helping set the stage for life to evolve, the team reported Aug. 8 in the journal Nature Astronomy. “Our new results provide the strongest evidence yet that at least some …

Astronomers Capture the “Eye of Sauron” Beaming at Earth  SciTechDaily Astronomers Spot the “Eye of Sauron” in Deep Space  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften Giant, cosmic ‘Eye of Sauron’ snapped staring directly at us in stunning 15-year time-lapse photo  Live Science This real ‘Eye of Sauron’ spits out ghost particles in space. Here’s what it looks like  Space Scientists publish picture of horrifying ‘Eye …

Credit: ZME Science/Midjorney. In 2024, scientists studying ancient sediments in the eastern United States reported signs of a comet exploding in Earth’s skies 12,800 years ago. That event, they suggested, might have plunged the planet into a thousand-year cold spell known as the Younger Dryas.  Now, a new study has taken the search deep beneath the ocean, and the results …

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 The SpaceX Dragon capsule returned with 6,700 pounds of advanced gear, marking a milestone in space exploration. 🛡️ The MISSE-20 project tested material durability, offering insights for future spacecraft design. 🤖 The Astrobee-REACCH robotic system demonstrated its potential in satellite servicing and debris management. 📚 The Story Time from Space project brought STEM-themed books to classrooms, …

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft’s orbit has shown something phenomenal about the Earth, and it’s left social media users making the same point. After the Fram2 mission successfully shared the ‘first views of Earth’s polar regions’ from its Dragon spacecraft in April this year, we’ve been treated to another video of the spacecraft doing its thing. On April 1 at around 9:46pm, …

There are lots of scammers who try to take advantage of unsuspecting airline passengers. One common scam is that you’ll see phone numbers listed online that claim to be official airline phone numbers, but in reality, they’re just the phone numbers of scammers. So people call those numbers thinking they’re talking to an airline representative, when in reality, that’s not …

Patrick Brown/FX Even the perfect organism isn’t immune to spoilers. This article discusses major plot details from the first two episodes of “Alien: Earth.” Science fiction has never been the easiest genre to get right. It takes a special alchemy of imagination, social commentary, and pure entertainment to deliver a movie or television …

Scientists have created the first sizable meteorite diamond — also known as lonsdaleite or hexagonal diamond — a material predicted to be even harder than the diamonds normally found on Earth. The high-pressure, high-temperature technique created tiny disks of this ultrahard diamond which could ultimately replace conventional diamonds in applications such as drilling tools and electronics, the scientists reported July …

Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA for a little more than a month, has vowed to make the United States great in space. With a background as a US Congressman, reality TV star, and television commentator, Duffy did not come to the position with a deep well of knowledge about spaceflight. He also already had a lot on his …