A team of Chinese scientists may have cracked the secret behind the strange Canyon Diablo diamonds. Hexagonal in form rather than cubic, the process behind how these diamonds formed has, until now, remained elusive. Diamonds are usually made of carbon atoms in a cubic arrangement (like stacked Lego blocks in a cube pattern). But there is a rarer form, the …
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Tiny metallic beads hiding in deep Arctic mud have reignited a long-running argument about why Earth shivered 12,800 years ago. The new evidence comes from four sediment cores lifted out of Baffin Bay, between Greenland and Canada, that capture a razor-thin layer rich in comet-like debris. The abrupt climate lurch, known as the Younger Dryas, drove Northern Hemisphere temperatures down …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash landing. Fragments of the extraterrestrial rock were turned over to scientists after they fell to Earth this summer to determine their classification …
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Watch Alien: Earth online An abandoned spacecraft containing suspicious organisms; a fearless female charged with taking them on; a shady corporation overseeing the chaos – Alien: Earth looks like it will slot into the franchise canon perfectly! US viewers can tune into Alien: Earth live on FX or online via Sling TV and Hulu, while it’s on Disney Plus elsewhere …
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The landing marks a successful end to their mission on board the International Space Station to help stranded pilots. Four astronauts have returned to Earth after hurrying to the International Space Station (ISS) five months ago to relieve stranded test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the Southern California coast on Saturday, a day …
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Watch: Large fireball seen shooting across sky over Southeastern US A meteorite that crashed into a home in the US is older than planet Earth, scientists have said. The object flew through the skies in broad daylight before exploding across the state of Georgia on 26 June, Nasa confirmed. Researchers at the University of Georgia examined a fragment of the …
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A meteorite fragment that tore through the roof of a Georgia home last June has been found to be older than Earth itself, according to scientists at the University of Georgia.Geologist Scott Harris told Fox News Digital that the rock, which fell on June 26 near Atlanta, originated from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Analysis shows it formed …
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As the Solar System drifts through the Milky Way, it occasionally encounters regions of space capable of reshaping Earth’s environment. Millions of years ago, one such passage may have dramatically compressed the heliosphere, allowing particles from deep space to reach our planet’s atmosphere. According to a 2024 study in Nature Astronomy, this event occurred when the Sun and planets entered …
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Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese flier and a Russian cosmonaut plunged back to Earth on Saturday, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, west of San Diego, to wrap up a five-month mission to space. Strapped into SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance, commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Kirill Peskov gently splashed down at 11:33 …
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Meteorite seen above Georgia, South Carolina Watch: Fiery meteorite seen above Georgia and South Carolina 01:03 A meteorite that ripped through the roof of a home in Georgia earlier this summer is older than Earth itself, according to a scientist who examined fragments of the space rock. A mysterious fireball blazed across the sky in broad daylight on June 26, …
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