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The fastest-moving stars in the galaxy may be piloted by intelligent aliens, new paper suggests

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, a new paper suggests. A few known star systems might fit the bill. Comments (3). When you purchase through links on our site, ...

2 space telescope designs will battle it out to become NASA's next cosmic imager

a silver space telescope with gold mirror floats in sapce. An artist's concept of the PRIMA mission. (Image credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/ESO/S ...

Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another

The New York Times

The New York Times

A million and a half years ago, amid giant storks and the ancestors of antelopes, two extinct relatives of humans walked along the same muddy lakeshore in what is today northern Kenya, new research suggests. An excavation team uncovered four sets of ...

Himalayas formation may have destroyed at least 30% of continental crust in collision zone

Phys.Org

Phys.Org

Conceptual models of crustal shortening across the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau (A), European Alps (B) and Zagros Mountains (C). Credit: Zhu et al., 2024.

'Cryptic carbon' may leak from volcanoes millions of years after eruptions end

New research suggests that long after these surface eruptions ceased, carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolved in underground magmas could have slowly escaped to the surface. This "cryptic carbon" may have contributed to prolonged periods of ...

Warm up this holiday season with NASA's new SLS rocket engine fireplace (video)

NASA is inviting you to sit by a homey, rocket-powered hearth this holiday season. The space agency created a virtual fireplace lit by the engines of its huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which sent the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the moon in ...

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Orcas observed preying on massive whale sharks

Yahoo News

Killer whales surface to breath before taking whale shark down and delivering a rapid, final blow. CREDIT: Kelsey Williamson. More. "When hunting, all pod members work together, ...

'Fireball' meteor discovered hours before exploding above Niagara Falls was the smallest asteroid ever seen

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ever properly measured, researchers say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Hailin impact crater: China's newly discovered meteor pit born from a 'nuclear explosion level' event

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but geologists aren't sure exactly when this happened. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA spots 'flame-throwing Guitar Nebula' shredding antimatter along a cosmic string

New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and supercharged particles spinning along a magnetic field line in interstellar space. When you purchase through links on our site ...