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When you hear the word ‘Lagos’, one of two places will probably spring to mind: the Lagos we’re heading to is one of the world’s most populous cities, situated in West Africa. More than 16 million people live there. It’s a city in a country, Nigeria, that has birthed some of the most influential musicians, fashion icons and entrepreneurs in the world.

‘Food is the first hello’: Lolak Afrique has been keeping London’s Little Lagos fed for 30 years

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The Moon is a constant in the night sky, but all is not actually as it seems. It turns out that scientists have discovered the Moon is drifting away from Earth, and it’s changing everything we thought we knew about our planet’s relationship with its only natural satellite. It’s also having a very real impact on the length of days on our planet – albeit at an incredibly slow rate. By moving away from Earth over the course of millions of years, the Moon is simultaneously making the length of the average day longer.A study by a team at the...

The Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth and it's beginning to impact us

This planet is orbiting a small star approximately 40 light-years away. Two teams of scientists discovered a potentially habitable planet orbiting a small star approximately 40 light-years away. The exoplanet is called Gliese 12b, and its size is a bit smaller than Earth but larger than Venus. Orbiting a cool...

Scientists Have Found an Earth-Sized Planet that’s Potentially Habitable

Professor Brian Cox has come up with a hilarious reason as to why aliens haven't yet made contact with Earth.It all started when Cox turned to X/Twitter with his bemusement at how the 1977 interstellar probe Voyager could be fixed remotely from Earth. His tweet was met with some comedic responses, comparing it to modern-day problems. "Meanwhile, the printer that's 3 feet from my laptop won't connect," one person humoured, while another chimed in: "It is amazing, and with a tiny amount of power. If we could get that comms team working on train wifi." However, the physicist and musician...

Professor Brian Cox believes this is the reason we haven't yet heard from aliens

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A new study confirms that Earth's inner core has been rotating more slowly than usual since 2010. This mysterious "backtracking" could also end up slightly altering the planet's overall rotation, lengthening our days.

Earth's rotating inner core is starting to slow down — and it could alter the length of our days

Business Insider

NASA plans to launch a mini satellite into Earth's orbit that could revolutionize astronomy as we know it.

NASA is putting an 'artificial star' in orbit around Earth

The Independent

 A 43-year-old Australian avocado farmer found the fossilized remains of a pterosaur in the Australian outback that scientists now say is a new species of the prehistoric flying reptile which lived alongside the dinosaurs.Kevin Peterson, who reportedly also works as a curator at the Kronosaurus Korner Museum in Richmond, Australia, first discovered bones of the reptile in 2021. Paleontologists announced on Wednesday that the bones found in central Queensland were from a previously unknown species of pterosaur, a giant winged reptile that lived 100 million years ago.Mr Petersen, who has a deep interest in paleontology, found the bones while...

Avocado farmer’s discovery in Australian outback is new species of pterosaur, scientists say

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Binary star system T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is about to go nova any day now. The recurrent nova explodes approximately every 79 or 80 years.

Once-in-a-lifetime star explosion, visible from Earth, could happen any day now

Experts have predicted the length of days on Earth are going to get longer and longer as time goes on.Thanks to the ever-evolving amount of research, scientists are now able to predict how life on Earth might change. Due to factors like climate change, experts believe there is a chance we are heading for a “triple whammy” extinction event within the next 250 million years.But before that happens, experts have predicted Earth's days are going to become longer and longer due to changes in the planet’s rotation.It’s a well-known fact that every 24 hours, the Earth does one full rotation...

Scientists predict Earth's days are going to get longer and longer

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a shortcut to steer clear of a path riddled with boulders — and stumbled into a field full of stones the likes of which scientists have never seen before on the Red Planet. On its fourth campaign since landing three years ago, the tireless...

NASA Rover Discovers Strange Stones, Never Before Seen on Mars

On Saturday (June 29), an asteroid larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza will fly past Earth at about three-quarters the distance from Earth to the moon. The asteroid, named 2024 MK, poses no risk to our planet.

Newly discovered asteroid larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza will zoom between Earth and the moon on Saturday

NASA scientists have just identified mysterious shapes flying above the Earth but, don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that aliens are about to strike.Using an imaging instrument called the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD), the experts uncovered strange X and C shapes, which have been cropping up in surprising places at surprising times.The researchers found the structures dancing around the ionosphere – the area where Earth’s atmosphere meets space – and say that the discovery could help improve radio communications and space weather forecasts.The ionosphere – which sits around 50 to 400 miles (roughly 80 to 644 kilometres)...

NASA scientists discover strange structures hovering above Earth

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A recently discovered exoplanet, HD 63433 d, located just 73 light-years away, offers a unique opportunity to study a young world reminiscent of early Earth. This Earth-sized planet orbits a Sun-like star and is less than 500 million years old, making it one of the youngest planets found to date. Its proximity and similarities to Earth make it a valuable target for scientists seeking insights into planetary formation and evolution.

Researchers find a molten planet similar to the early version of Earth

Quite possibly the most aggressively ‘80s artefact in existence, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ is a musical about anthropomorphic roller skating trains that often feels like being forced to watch ten consecutive episodes of some trashy Saturday morning action cartoon. It’s loud. It’s dumb. It barely has characters in any meaningful sense. Richard Stilgoe’s lyrics are kind of anti-Sondheim: it’s a show that makes your brain contract with every second that passes.

Starlight Express

Two asteroids, including one large enough to end civilization, will hurtle past our planet this week.Researchers have given the 7,600 foot-long celestial object – the larger of the space rocks – the catchy name (415029) 2011 UL21. It’s nickname is Planet Killer: a title given to asteroids which are at least 6300-foot wide. It will fly past planet Earth at 58,000 miles per hour at approximately 4.14pm ET at a distance more than 17 times further away than the moon. Its size and proximity to the planet has seen Nasa brand it a “potentially hazardous asteroid”. Only those with a...

How to watch ‘planet killer’ asteroid big enough to ‘end civilization’ fly near Earth this week

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The asteroid 2011 UL21 will sail by 6.6 million kilometers from our planet.

"Planet-Killer" Asteroid To Safely Fly By Earth Tomorrow

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In an era where space exploration captures our imagination, a different cosmic concern demands our attention: the potential threat of asteroids colliding with Earth. While this may sound like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, it’s a very real scenario that NASA and other government agencies are diligently preparing for.

NASA test shows Earth is not prepared to prevent large asteroid strike

From "runaway" black holes shooting across the cosmos to secret planets in our own backyard, space is overrun with mysterious objects that scientists are clamoring to explain. Here are five of the strangest sights in the universe, as well as their possible origins.

5 space discoveries that scientists are struggling to explain

New York Post

A crater in Siberia is expanding faster than anticipated due to climate change, scientists have discovered, saying it now poses problems for the surrounding habitat.  

The Batagaika slump, known as the “Gateway to Hell” and located in the freezing Yana Highlands, currently covers about 200 acres of land and can be seen in satellite images captured from space. 

The crater was first detected on images taken in 1991 and has been growing in both width and depth since that time as global warming causes permafrost (frozen soil sediment) to melt. 







Siberian tiger kills man who followed predator’s tracks after...

Siberia’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is rapidly expanding in size, scientists discover

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a snapshot of two massive asteroids colliding in a nearby star system — and it could teach us about how common solar systems like our own are.

James Webb telescope reveals 'cataclysmic' asteroid collision in nearby star system

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The Happiest Show on Earth is coming to London

It is early June and I am in Mexico City attempting to operate a gigantic semi-inflatable whale that is suspended from the ceiling of the city’s...

The Happiest Show on Earth is coming to London

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