- Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas set to make its closest approach to Earth this week Midland Reporter-Telegram
- 3I/ATLAS Still Shows an Anti-Tail, as it Gets Closer to Earth Avi Loeb – Medium
- XMM-Newton sees comet 3I/ATLAS in X-ray light European…
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Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas set to make its closest approach to Earth this week – Midland Reporter-Telegram
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NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too
Things aren’t looking good for one of NASA’s Mars orbiters.
MAVEN (short for “Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution”) has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the spacecraft, NASA announced in an update on Monday (Dec….
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How cement “breathes in” and stores millions of tons of CO₂ a year | MIT News
The world’s most common construction material has a secret. Cement, the “glue” that holds concrete together, gradually “breathes in” and stores millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air over the…
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‘We were amazed’: Scientists using James Webb telescope may have discovered the earliest supernova in the known universe
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have discovered the most distant supernova in the universe. This stellar explosion, hosted by a very faint galaxy, occurred when the universe was only 730 million years old.
Besides…
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One of the Most Complete Human Ancestor Fossils Called Little Foot May Be New Species
An international study led by researchers from Australia’s La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged the classification of one of the world’s most complete human ancestral fossils, raising the possibility… Continue Reading
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New images show that the Moon “broke apart” billions of years ago
New oblique images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) reveal enormous cracks, called grabens, curling around an ancient lunar sea on the Moon’s near-side.
These grabens are part of a broken ring that records how a huge…
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Remarkable Fossil from South Africa May Be New Species of Australopithecus: Study
New research led by scientists from the University of Cambridge and Latrobe University challenges the classification of the Little Foot fossil as Australopithecus prometheus.
The Little Foot fossil in the Sterkfontein cave, central South…
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A Single Solar Storm Could Trigger an End to Space Travel. Here’s How. : ScienceAlert
A “house of cards” is such a wonderful English phrase, one now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning refers to a fundamentally unstable system.
It’s also the term Sarah Thiele, originally a PhD…
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Stay up late tonight to watch Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket launch its 1st pair of Galileo navigation satellites
Vol VA266 | Galileo L14 | Ariane 6 | Arianespace – YouTube
Watch OnEurope’s towering Ariane 6 rocket is gaining momentum in the heavy-lift launch market as the vehicle gears up for its fifth flight.
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