We're Launching So Much Stuff At The Moon That We're Littering It With Space Junk NowscienceMay 3, 10:25 PMThe upper stage of a rocket used to launch a lunar lander mission now heading towards the moon, and it's going to crash there at 5,400 miles per hour.Jalopnik...
New discovery suggests existence of 60-foot, kraken-like octopusscienceMay 3, 9:00 PM"It challenges the common view of an 'age of vertebrates' in marine ecosystems."Yahoo...
A bright moon may dim the Eta Aquarid meteor shower made up of Halley's comet debrisscienceMay 3, 3:53 PMThe Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley's comet. But a bright moon will spoil the fun this year, making the display harder to glimpse.KSL News...
A Remote Lake Sealed Off Since the Ice Age Became Home to Millions of Jellyfish Found Nowhere Else on EarthscienceMay 3, 12:45 PMBeneath the surface of a remote island lake, something unusual involving jellyfish has been unfolding for thousands of years. Isolated from the ocean, this ecosystem hides a phenomenon that continues to surprise scientists.The Daily Galaxy...
Buried Just Inches Beneath Tunisia’s Sahara Sands, a Fully Intact 10-Meter-Long Sea Crocodile Fossil Has Been FoundscienceMay 3, 11:45 AMA long-lost, massive crocodile hidden beneath desert sands is drawing attention for more than its size.The Daily Galaxy...
Astronomers Discover Massive Hidden Structures Pointing Straight At Milky Way Black HolescienceMay 2, 1:15 PMA newly discovered network of light-year-long filaments near the Milky Way’s core reveals unexpected clues about the past activity of Sagittarius A*.The Daily Galaxy...
Yellowstone's volcano may be fueled in a very different way than we thoughtscienceMay 2, 12:15 PMYellowstone eruptions may be driven by shifts in Earth's crust, rather than a deep well of magma, study finds.Yahoo...
Where NASA's Dragonfly mission is going, 'We don't need roads'scienceMay 2, 9:00 AMWhy drive when you can fly?Yahoo...
Vandenberg’s Next Mission: SpaceX Middle-of-Night Launch, LandingscienceMay 2, 2:20 AMWhat: Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. When: Between 11:59 p.m. Saturday and 12:36 a.m. Sunday,Noozhawk...
Have You Seen This? A green, glowing mysteryscienceMay 1, 9:33 PMA recent mysterious green glow over the 50th State had residents, government officials, and even the military baffled, but it turns out it was just our atmosphere putting on a show.KSL.com...
Live updates from May 1 Florida Starlink missionscienceMay 1, 6:41 PMLive updates from SpaceX’s May Day Starlink 10-38 afternoon mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Florida Today...
Low-Earth orbit is a "house of cards" just 2.8 days from disasterscienceMay 1, 5:31 PMA major solar storm, or another disruption, could overwhelm Earth's satellite system and trigger catastrophic collisions within 2.8 days.Earth.com...
Interstellar comet is a time capsule from another star systemscienceMay 1, 5:00 PMThe presence of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, in 3I/ATLAS suggests the interstellar comet formed in a much colder place before our solar system existed.CNN...
Bigger, faster, but still outfoxed: How prey escape predatorsscienceMay 1, 5:00 PMPredators are typically larger, faster, and more powerful than the animals they hunt. Yet in nature, most attacks fail. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by researchers from the University of Amsterdam Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), asks: why do prey get away so often? The key, the researchers found, lies in something the original model overlooked: reaction times.Phys.org...
Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metalscienceMay 1, 4:24 PMDifferent hunting patterns seem to dictate different distributions of metal.Ars Technica...
Artemis II crew gives 5-year-old aspiring astronaut Commander Jack a new spacesuit: "It says NASA!"scienceMay 1, 2:45 PMThe Artemis II team gained a new member, and the crew made sure their youngest teammate had the right stuff for space.CBS News...
Scientists Found an Exceptionally Preserved Fossil in Utah. Then Noticed Something No One ExpectedscienceMay 1, 1:45 PMScientists took a closer look at this strange 500-million-year-old fossil, and found something never seen before in its kind.The Daily Galaxy...
Rocket Report: Falcon Heavy is back; Russia's Soyuz-5 finally debutsscienceMay 1, 12:39 PMTwo launches this week delivered 61 more satellites to orbit for the Amazon Leo broadband network.Ars Technica...
Astronomers Turn to Powerful New Telescope That Could Finally Confirm the Existence of Planet 9scienceMay 1, 11:15 AMWhat if there is still an undiscovered planet orbiting our Sun? Scientists are following a trail of unusual patterns that point to a hidden world, one that refuses to reveal itself directly.The Daily Galaxy...
Scientists Found What They Believe Is a Portal to the Fifth Dimension Through a Never-Before-Seen ParticlescienceMay 1, 10:15 AMPhysics has known for decades that most of the universe is missing. A new theory names the particle responsible, one that exists in a dimension beyond anything humans have ever measured.The Daily Galaxy...