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

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Primary school geography paints such a neat picture of the world.It tells us, for example, that there are seven continents on Earth, but the truth is far more complex.Researchers are constantly encountering lost landmasses that constitute important pieces in the puzzle of our planet’s geological past.Now, a whole new continent has been found lurking beneath the icy waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean.The discovery was made around the Davis Strait, a large stretch of water located between Canada’s Baffin Island and Greenland.The strait was formed millions of years ago when the tectonic plates between the two islands shifted, reconfiguring the...

Scientists have just discovered a brand new continent

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’s Curiosity rover made a “mind-blowing” discovery on Mars — yellowish-green crystals of pure sulfur, never before seen on Earth’s mysterious red neighbor, according to scientists.

The literal ground-breaking find was made after the one-ton Curiosity drove over a pile of rocks and cracked one open while probing the deep and winding Gediz Vallis channel, believed to have been formed by water 3 billion years ago.

“I think it’s the strangest find of the whole mission and the most unexpected,” Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] in Pasadena, California, told CNN. “I have to...

NASA’s Curiosity rover makes ‘mind-blowing’ discovery on Mars

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Asteroids regularly fly by Earth at tremendous rates of speed with little to no consequence. A little over a week ago, a big one flew by at 21,000 mph and was knocked off its orbit by Earth’s gravity, but that’s usually the extent of it and not the norm. Sure, it sounds ominous when a […]
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Massive ‘Colossal God Of Chaos’ Asteroid On Course To Have A Very Close Encounter With Earth

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Scientists have discovered that the moon contains a vast underground cave on the side of a deep pit in the lunar surface.

Scientists found an underground cave on the moon where astronauts could live and think there may be hundreds more

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A tree common in gardens for its pretty flowers and foliage has been harboring a secret this entire time.
The wood of the two species of tulip tree (Liriodendron) is neither hardwood nor softwood, but a type of wood in between, something we didn't even know existed. And this wood, researchers say, seems to be particularly efficient at carbon sequestration and storage.



					
			

This ability, say biochemists Jan Łyczakowski of Jagiellonian University in Poland and Raymond Wightman of Cambridge University in the UK, could be related to the size of the tree's macrofibrils, long threadlike bundles of cell wall components and cellulose, which...

A New Type of Wood Just Discovered Could Revolutionize Carbon Storage

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover inadvertently crushed a rock while exploring a sulfates-rich area — and revealed a treasure of glinting, yellow crystals. And according to the space agency, it's unlike anything the rover has come across so far. Instead of sulfur-based minerals, which have been discovered several times already in the area, the cracked-open rock turned out to be pure, elemental sulfur.

NASA Scientists Startled When Mars Rover Drives Over Rock, Cracking It and Revealing Glinting Crystals Within

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Seven years ago, the Cassini mission ended when the spacecraft dramatically crashed into Saturn, but the data it collected is still delivering results, revealing the secrets of Titan's oceans.

Before plunging to its death, NASA's Cassini spacecraft saw secrets in the seas of Saturn's moon Titan


Every now and again, the night sky lights up with a spectacular explosion that blazes with the most energetic light our Universe can produce. Known as gamma-ray bursts, they can release in a few seconds what our Sun will emit over its lifetime.
Now scientists have found a never-before-seen signal buried in the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation delivered by the brightest gamma ray burst ever recorded.
That signal is an emission light – a bright region in the gamma-ray spectrum produced by something emitting light in that specific wavelength range. And that something, scientists have determined, is complete and utter destruction: the...

Signal Buried in Biggest Explosion Ever Seen Hints at Total Annihilation

For decades, astronomers have predicted that, in approximately 4.5 billion years, our galaxy will merge with the nearby Andromeda galaxy in a massive collision that will dramatically reshape our immediate cosmic neighborhood. But what if this doomed encounter isn’t inevitable and each galaxy will remain intact?. Previous research suggested...

Collision Between Milky Way and Andromeda Far From Inevitable, Study Shows

It's the iris in the great eyeball of  Jupiter, revolving to gaze balefully out upon the cosmos: the Great Red Spot, the single largest, longest-lived storm in the entire Solar System.



					
			

Humanity has been observing it for centuries, a colossal anticyclone currently a little bit larger than Earth, with winds that howl around in an anticlockwise direction at up to 680 kilometers (425 miles) per hour.
As mighty as it rages, however, the Great Red Spot has significantly diminished since the first definite records of its existence in 1831. The storm was once much larger; over time, it has dwindled, and...

The Mystery of Jupiter's Shrinking Great Red Spot Might Be Solved


 The Moon, for most intents and purposes, is naked, bare, and exposed to the vacuum of space.
But Earth's satellite does indeed have a blanket of gasses; thin and tenuous, but persistent enough to be considered a kind of atmosphere called an exosphere.



					
			

Exactly how the Moon sustains that diffuse shell of gasses has been something of a puzzle. Earth's magnetic field acts as a confining influence on its atmosphere, but the Moon has nothing of the sort, so its exosphere should have been stripped away by solar activity long ago.
It's clear the Moon's deplenishing gasses are constantly being topped up,...

The Moon Has a Mysterious Atmosphere, And We Finally Know Its Source


It's been nearly a century since scientists discovered single-celled organisms capable of spewing methane into the environment.
While these microscopic cousins to bacteria occupy a variety of extreme habitats – under kilometers of ice, among the hot sands of deserts, near hydrothermal vents in the deep sea, and within landfills and wastewater – they have all belonged to the same superphylum within the Archaea kingdom, called Euryarchaeota.



					
			

It turns out, they are not alone.
Around ten years ago, scientists working around oil fields and hot springs uncovered DNA from undescribed microorganisms, which suggested they might produce methane gas. Unlike every other 'methanogen' known...

Whole New Group of Methane-Burping Microbes Discovered in Yellowstone Springs

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The peak of the Perseid meteor shower could coincide with a spectacular light show.

Four Coronal Mass Ejections Are Headed Towards Earth, With Strong Auroras Possible

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"They accidentally gave us 2 washers and a dryer when we only ordered 1 of each". Last month, Lowe’s experienced a glitch that lowered the price of its $2,300 Midea jumbo capacity refrigerator to just $169.

‘Lowe’s messed up’: Shopper says they got $2,300 fridge at Lowe’s for just $169

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A retired military officer who had been struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tragically died after jumping from the world’s largest cruise ship last month, authorities confirmed.

Cruise Passenger Who Jumped from World's Largest Ship After Dispute Suffered with PTSD

In the barren landscape of Mars, NASA’s intrepid explorer Curiosity has stumbled upon a series of unexpected discoveries that are rewriting our understanding of the Red Planet’s geological history. From pure sulfur crystals to evidence of violent floods, these findings are painting a picture of a Mars that was once far more dynamic and water-rich than previously imagined.

Martian treasure trove! NASA’s Curiosity rover finds ‘strange, unexpected’ crystals on Mars


Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA recently demonstrated a key piece of tech that could help, beaming messages via laser across a distance of almost 16 million kilometers (10 million miles).



					
			

That's about 40 times farther than  the Moon is from Earth, and the accomplishment, achieved in November 2023, represented the first time that optical communications have been sent across such a distance.
Traditionally, we use radio waves to talk to distant spacecraft – but higher frequencies of light, such as near infrared, offer an increase in bandwidth and therefore a...

NASA Beamed a Laser Message to Earth From 10 Million Miles Away


We have a problem with sucralose. Found in many zero-calorie foods and drinks, the artificial sweetener doesn't get broken down by the body, and as a new study shows that means it's potentially damaging the microorganisms at the very bottom of aquatic food webs.



					
			

"We can't break down sucralose, and a lot of microorganisms can't break it down, either, because it's a really tough molecule that doesn't degrade easily," says marine bioscientist Tracey Schafer, from the University of Florida.
"So there are a lot of questions about how it is affecting the environment and whether it's something that could impact our microbial...

Artificial Sweetener May Be Wreaking Havoc on Microorganisms

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Astronomers Just Discovered The Earliest Galaxy We've Ever Seen

A newly discovered galaxy has just smashed the record for the earliest seen yet, presenting a major challenge to our current models of galaxy formation.
It's called...

Astronomers Just Discovered The Earliest Galaxy We've Ever Seen

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