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Earth is getting a new mini-moon, and it won’t be the first or the last

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Earth is getting a new mini-moon, and it won’t be the first or the last

Earth is going to have its very own mini-moon from September 29 until November 25. The regular Moon’s new, temporary friend is 2024 PT₅, an asteroid captured from the Arjuna asteroid group (called the “Arjunas”). | Photo Credit: AFP Earth is going to have its very own mini-moon from September 29 until November 25. The regular Moon’s…

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Russian Soyuz brings crew of three back from International Space Station

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Russian Soyuz brings crew of three back from International Space Station

The Soyuz MS-25 space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew, formed of Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, lands in a remote area near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan September 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Russian Soyuz capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe on Monday, bringing two Russian cosmonauts…

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In a single finger bone, scientists find signs of Britain’s largest flying animal

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In a single finger bone, scientists find signs of Britain’s largest flying animal

A handout illustration shows the newly identified Jurassic Period flying reptile, or pterosaur, called ‘Dearc sgiathanach’, whose fossil was found on a rocky beach at Scotland’s Isle of Skye, flying alongside a large meat-eating dinosaur. | Photo Credit: Reuters Scientists have estimated the size of an extinct flying reptile called a pterosaur, based on fragments of a…

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CERN supercollider discovers heaviest particles can entangle

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CERN supercollider discovers heaviest particles can entangle

One of the most surprising predictions of physics is entanglement, a phenomenon where objects can be some distance apart but still linked together. The best-known examples of entanglement involve tiny chunks of light (photons), and low energies. At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the world’s largest particle accelerator, an experiment called ATLAS has just…

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Faraway black hole unleashes record-setting energetic jets

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Faraway black hole unleashes record-setting energetic jets

This artist’s concept shows a galaxy with a brilliant quasar, a very bright, distant and active supermassive black hole that is millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, at its center, seen in this undated handout picture. | Photo Credit: Reuters Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite…

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Intuitive Machines clinches $4.8 bln navigation services contract from NASA

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Intuitive Machines clinches .8 bln navigation services contract from NASA

The Nova-C lunar lander designed by aerospace company Intuitive Machines is displayed at the company’s headquarters in Houston, Texas, U.S., October 3, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Intuitive Machines said on Tuesday (September 18, 2024) it has bagged a navigation and communication services contract of up to $4.82 billion from NASA for missions in the…

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Hidden craters suggest earth once had a Saturn-like ring

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Hidden craters suggest earth once had a Saturn-like ring

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth & Planetary Science Letters, my colleagues and I present evidence that Earth may have had a ring. The existence of such a ring, forming around…

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Polaris Dawn: why world’s first private spacewalk wasn’t just a vanity project

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Polaris Dawn: why world’s first private spacewalk wasn’t just a vanity project

This handout photo provided by SpaceX and Polaris on September 15, 2024 shows the manned Polaris Dawn mission’s “Dragon” capsule aboard the rescue vessel after it splashed down off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, after completing the first human spaceflight mission by non-government astronauts of the Polaris Program. | Photo Credit: AFP Two astronauts…

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Exceptional new fish fossil sparks rethink of how earth’s geology drives evolution

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Exceptional new fish fossil sparks rethink of how earth’s geology drives evolution

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in length. For a long time, scientists believed they were extinct. In new research published in Nature Communications, we reveal the best-preserved coelacanth fossil ever found from the ancient period hundreds of millions of years ago…

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How skuas, frigatebirds, and gulls are helping spread avian influenza

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How skuas, frigatebirds, and gulls are helping spread avian influenza

It’s not easy finding food at sea. Seabirds often stay aloft, scanning the churning waters for elusive prey. Most seabirds take fish, squid, or other prey from the first few metres of seawater. Scavenging is common. But there are other tactics. Frigatebirds, skuas, and gulls rely on the success of other seabirds. These large, strong…

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