A bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out cosmic radiation is pointing straight at us. Thankfully, the object, unimaginatively dubbed “PKS 1424+240,” is located roughly 7.4 billion light-years away and likely won’t pose much of a danger. But that hasn’t stopped a group of excited astronomers from renaming it: the “Eye of Sauron,” the symbol adopted …
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A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment has unveiled an extraordinary discovery: the solid rock deep beneath our feet is not as rigid as previously thought. Scientists have confirmed that the mantle, specifically the D” layer located roughly 1,700 miles below the Earth’s surface, exhibits solid-state flow. This breakthrough challenge old assumptions about the Earth’s composition and behavior. …
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A meteorite that tore through the roof of a U.S. home in June 2025 has been dated at 4.56 billion years old, making it roughly 20 million years older than Earth itself. The impact occurred on June 26 in the state of Georgia, when witnesses reported a bright fireball streaking across the sky, followed by a loud boom. The meteorite …
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Noah Hawley stewed on an Alien spinoff years before FX even secured the rights. Now, “Alien: Earth” jumps to the small screen with all the eerie essentials of the Ridley Scott sci-fi classic: dread-soaked atmospheres, spine-tingling suspense, and, of course, those horrifying acid-blooded freaks. But this time, the Emmy-winning creator carved out a bold new nightmare that exists in parallel …
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The verdict is in. The detection of a cosmic neutrino that smashed into Earth with an unprecedented energy level is not a glitch or an error, but a real detection of a real particle. In February 2023, a detector called KM3NeT, located deep under the Mediterranean Sea, picked up a signal that seemed to indicate a neutrino with a record-shattering …
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On a clear June day in Georgia, a blazing fireball suddenly fell out of the sky over the Atlanta metro area. The source of this spectacle was a 1-ton meteor that exploded in mid-air, sending a cherry tomato-sized fragment shooting through the roof of a McDonough home. Though no one knew it then, this space rock hailed from a time …
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This post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Alien: Earth, now streaming on Hulu.The Alien movies are filled with so many ideas about what their future society is like that it feels close to (chest) bursting. But because most of the films are first and foremost suspense stories about surviving the Xenomorphs, these ideas are often teased only …
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Sydney Chandler as Wendy in Alien: Earth. Patrick Brown/FX hide caption toggle caption Patrick Brown/FX FX’s new series Alien: Earth opens with a scene familiar to any fans of the storied science fiction horror film franchise: A crew of dysfunctional, blue-collar workers waking from extended hibernation in a sprawling spaceship. In this case, it’s the year 2120 — two years …
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A space rock that punched a hole through a Georgia resident’s home earlier this summer may be 20 million years older than our planet, researchers say. The meteorite streaked across the sky as a fireball on June 26, just before a piece of it struck a house in the city of McDonough. A researcher at the University of Georgia (UGA) …
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