The beautiful comet C/2025 R2 SWAN is putting a wonderful show out there, thanks to the deep-sky friends it is meeting.
Comet C/2025 R2 SWAN with Messier 16 and Messier 17. 17 Oct. 2025.
The image above comes from the average of five,…
Category: 7. Science
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China’s fingernail-sized chip can map 5,600 stars in seconds
Imagine a device no bigger than a fingernail that can see the world, and the stars, in colours so precise that it leaves traditional cameras and spectroscopes far behind. That’s exactly what a team of Chinese researchers has created at…
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NASA supercomputers calculated when life will end on Earth. Here’s our deadline
In collaboration with researchers from Toho University in Japan, NASA researchers have used supercomputers to model and determine how long life will remain possible on Earth. The calculated end date for all life on Earth is still a long ways…
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After 700,000 years, Iran’s dormant Taftan volcano is starting to rise
For decades, the colossal Taftan volcano of eastern Iran appeared a lifeless piece of history. It towered nearly 13,000 feet above the desert landscape, standing proud and still. But in 2023, something remarkable did happen—its summit started…
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Zinc is a metal essential to life – scientists have discovered a protein that helps keep cells alive when zinc levels are low
All living things, including people, need zinc in their diets. Getting too little of this essential metal can impair growth and cause immune dysfunction, neurological disorders and cancer. Unfortunately, over 17% of the world’s population is at…
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$20 million NASA mission to visit ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid saved from budget cuts in last-minute decision
NASA’s plans to fly a spaceship alongside a potentially hazardous asteroid in 2029 will continue — for the next year, at least.
After threats of mission cancellation, the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft received a last-minute $20 million allocation in…
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Precision, Imprecision, Intellectual Honesty, And Little Green Men – Hackaday
- Precision, Imprecision, Intellectual Honesty, And Little Green Men Hackaday
- Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS seen in new photos from Mars NBC News
- The stranger that stirred the solar system Pakistan Today
- A Sunward Jet from 3I/ATLAS, Imaged by the…
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 182 — The Dream is Alive
The Dream is Alive – With NASA Astronaut Terry Hart – YouTube
Watch OnOn Episode 182 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Terry Hart to discuss his career from a fighter jet pilot to a NASA astronaut.
If you ever…
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Climate change is making Greenland shrink and drift, says new study
New research from DTU Space shows that Greenland is undergoing a massive shift because of climate change—it’s quite literally accelerating the melting of the Danish territory.
A study recently published by DTU in the Journal of…
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