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Scientists identify the rare meteorite that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
11+ hour, 43+ min ago (519+ words) A rare type of meteorite known as a CO chondrite was likely the object that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and triggered the extinction of about 75 percent of all species, including every non-avian dinosaur. Researchers from the University of…...
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1+ day, 1+ hour ago (282+ words) Moon News. Current science articles on the Moon. Read about the new lunar mission being planned, how the "Man In The Moon" was created, moon landing facts and more. Images....
A shattered asteroid may have bombarded Earth 800 million years ago
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (579+ words) A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The debris was launched from near a gravitational gateway controlled by Jupiter, sending fragments toward Earth, the Moon, and…...
NASA’s James Webb catches a supermassive black hole feeding
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (976+ words) New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, are giving astronomers their clearest look yet at how supermassive black holes obtain the gas they need to grow. The images reveal long strands of gas linking a galaxy's hot…...
Terraforming Mars may be more realistic than scientists once thought
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (55+ words) Scientists say new technologies have reopened the debate over whether Mars could someday be terraformed, turning a once impossible idea into a serious research topic. Before anyone tries to reshape the Red Planet, though, researchers say we must understand the…...
Sun-like star caught after eating one of its own planets
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (953+ words) Astronomers have found strong evidence that TOI-5882, a sun-like star about 1,300 light-years from Earth, may have consumed one of its own planets. The team, led by University of Michigan astronomer Brooke Kotten, discovered an important clue in the star's chemical…...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a strange atmosphere on a hellish lava planet
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (582+ words) While that scenario is fictional, astronomers today are already studying a remarkable candidate. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have investigated the super Earth 55 Cancri e (55 Cnc e), an extreme rocky planet located about 41 light years from Earth. Measuring…...
NASA captured the Black Sea turning brilliant turquoise from space
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (56+ words) NASA's PACE satellite captured the Black Sea glowing turquoise during its annual phytoplankton bloom. The vivid color comes from massive numbers of coccolithophores, microscopic organisms whose reflective shells brighten the water enough to be seen from space. An…...
Astronomers just found four hidden white dwarf stars near Earth
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (620+ words) Astronomers have directly confirmed four previously hidden white dwarf stars in nearby binary systems. Every system lies within 65 light-years of Earth, and one contains the ninth closest known white dwarf to the Sun. The discoveries were made by researchers at…...
Are there aliens on exoplanet K2-18b? Scientists just scanned it for signals
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (198+ words) K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an unusually powerful radio survey using both the VLA and MeerKAT telescopes. Advanced software analyzed millions of signals, filtering out Earth-based interference and other…...