Researchers made a tantalizing discovery after they MacGyver-ed old data from a radar instrument on a satellite gathered 14 years ago from the Moon. When they used the mission data in a fresh new way, they found proof of a Moon cave hiding in plain sight. The cave is inside...

Scientists Just Found Evidence for Hidden Passageways Under the Moon’s Surface

NASA was reporting late Friday that an asteroid the size of an airplane traveling at an incomprehensible speed is headed Earth's direction, though it is unlikely to make contact, scientists said. The asteroid, named 2024 NB2, will get as close as 2,390,000 miles from Earth as it passes through the...

Asteroid headed toward Earth at remarkable speed

An international team of astronomers employing NASA’s Webb Space Telescope captured an exoplanet 12 light years away, and in a location that may be familiar to fans of science fiction. The alien planet orbits the K-type star Epsilon Indi A, which is around the same age as Earth’s Sun, but is slightly cooler.

NASA's Image Of An Alien Planet 12 Light Years Away Gives Astronomers Chills

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NASA released stunning images to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory launch. The Chandra team shared an image of a galaxy that has never been witnessed before — it’s a spiral galaxy in the Pavo (Peacock) constellation. Chandra has collected nearly 25,000 images “over its time in space,” USA Today reported. It “observed the cosmic objects for up to thousands of hours,” and “it took the telescope 64 days of observation time and 370 observations over the course of 20 years to capture an image of the Milky Way’s center, about 26,000 light-years away from earth,” per USA Today. The images from the observatory have “helped scientists learn more about dark matter, dark energy and dark holes,” according to CBS News.

See the stunning images NASA just released of never-before-seen galaxies

The world’s biggest iceberg, A23a, has been spinning in place north of Antarctica, contrary to expectations that it would be swiftly carried away by the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). Instead of drifting towards its eventual dissolution in the warmer waters of the South Atlantic, A23a has been caught in a Taylor Column—a stationary, rotating water mass—created by an underwater obstruction called the Pirie Bank. This phenomenon, first described by physicist Sir G.I. Taylor in the 1920s, occurs when ocean currents meet seafloor obstructions, causing the water to split and form a vortex. As a result, A23a remains trapped, spinning anti-clockwise by about 15 degrees each day, which delays its decay and prolongs its existence.

World’s Biggest Iceberg Spins in Ocean Trap

In what can only be described as a herculean accomplishment, a team of scientists has succeeded in bringing to the surface a long, 1,268-meter section of rocks from the Earth’s Mantle. This layer, hidden beneath the crust, forms the largest chunk of our planet. The insights gained from this...

Record-breaking hole drilled into the Earth’s mantle is a scientific goldmine

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Devra Lee

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Horoscope of the Day, Saturday, August 10th

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Two meteor showers will overlap over southern skies tonight. Here is where they'll be most visible.

How to watch the double meteor showers tonight

Irish Star

The asteroid will reach a distance that is uncomfortably close to earth

NASA reports 100-foot asteroid zooming toward Earth at astounding speed

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Uncovering Florida

The Polk County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest after conducting an investigation into a case of credit card fraud involving 28-year-old Burger King employee, Kellyn Miley. The incident was discussed in detail during this morning's briefing with Sheriff Grady Judd.

Burger King Employee Caught Using Customer's Credit Card for Food at Former Job

Alaska State

Juneau, AK

Severe flooding caused by a glacial lake outburst has led to a state disaster emergency declaration in Alaska on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, with the Mendenhall River cresting at 4.87 m (15.99 feet) and inundating north Juneau’s neighborhoods. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy declared a state disaster emergency on Tuesday,...

Alaska declares state disaster emergency as Mendenhall River floods

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Up to 75 'shooting stars' per hour may be visible as the annual Perseid meteor shower peaks on Sunday and Monday (Aug. 11 and Aug. 12). The annual shower is linked to debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle.

The Perseid meteor shower is about to peak. Here's when to see the most 'shooting stars'.

Tanzania's outlandish Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, the only volcano on Earth that is currently erupting carbonatite lava, has been sinking at a rate of 1.4 inches per year for the past decade.

Volcano in Tanzania with weirdest, runniest magma on Earth is sinking into the ground

Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have conducted a study of coronal mass ejections on a young solar-type star known as AB Doradus. Results of the new research, published August 1 on the pre-print server arXiv, could provide more insights into the nature of these eruptive events. Coronal mass...

Researchers investigate coronal mass ejection on the star AB Doradus

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Another Northern Lights show could be coming to parts of the northern U.S. and Midwest this week after the Sun released multiple rounds of energized particles now racing toward Earth.

Strong geomagnetic storm could produce Northern Lights displays across northern US this week

Ohio State

The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

Deep in Siberia, the Batagaika crater, often dubbed the “Gateway to Hell,” is an astonishing and rapidly expanding phenomenon. This enormous permafrost crater, the largest of its kind in the world, spans nearly a kilometer in length and reaches depths of up to 100 meters. Despite being commonly referred to as a crater, Batagaika is a thermokarst depression, or mega slump, that formed in the 1960s when deforestation disrupted the thermal balance of the permafrost. As the ground thawed, it released significant amounts of methane gas, contributing to the subsidence of the Earth and creating this immense depression. The ongoing thawing process has exacerbated the situation, releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which in turn accelerates the melting of permafrost—a troubling feedback loop.

Giant Permafrost Crater “Gateway to Hell” Is Rapidly Expanding in Siberia

The light from the most distant galaxy in the known universe suggests that there's something off about our current cosmological models, a new James Webb Space Telescope study finds. The explanations remain elusive.

James Webb telescope confirms the earliest galaxy in the universe is bursting with way more stars than we thought possible

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Northern lights could be visible over some northern and upper Midwest states on July 24. A geomagnetic storm watch has been issued by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.

Aurora alert: Possible geomagnetic storm could bring northern lights as far south as New York

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Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

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Rare fireball detected over Antarctica with an impact energy of 5.1 kilotons

A significant fireball was detected over eastern Antarctica at 14:08 UTC on July 20, 2024. The event’s total impact energy was calculated to be 5.1 kilotons...

Rare fireball detected over Antarctica with an impact energy of 5.1 kilotons

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