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Are planet-killing black holes hiding inside your cat?

Scientists have suggested that tiny primordial black holes with the power to hollow out planets could be passing through everyday materials here on earth — rocks, glass, metal, and maybe even you or your cat.

Watch Europe's Vega-C rocket launch today on 1st flight since 2022 (video)

For the first time since the launch vehicle's catastrophic mission failure in 2022, Europe's Vega-C rocket is poised to return to flight today. The European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to launch the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite today, ...

India to launch Eurpope's Proba-3 spacecraft pair to study the Sun, demonstrate tandem maneuvering in orbit

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The European Space Agency is preparing to launch two missions on Wednesday, half a world and half a day apart: Proba-3 from India and Sentinel-1C from French Guiana. Because ESA and the European aerospace industry are still working towards restoring ...

Tiny asteroid detected hours before hitting Earth to become 4th 'imminent impactor' of 2024

The small space rock should hit Earth's atmosphere today around 11:15 a.m. ET (1615 GMT). The asteroid is completely harmless and is expected to produce a "nice fireball ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching on record-breaking 24th flight early Dec. 4

SpaceX is about to set a new rocket-reuse record. One of the company's Falcon 9 rockets is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday (Dec. 4), during a nearly two-hour window that opens at 5:13 a.m. EST (1013 ...

Building blocks: How China plans to make bricks on the moon for lunar habitats

Chinese scientists are developing the capability to build a moon base made of bricks formed from lunar soil. A recent video from China Central Television (CCTV) shows an animation of a robot working to construct a lunar habitat known as a "moon pot ...

Five space mysteries Proba-3 will help solve

This new technology combined with the satellite pair's unique extended orbit around Earth will allow Proba-3 to do important science, revealing secrets of the sun, space weather and Earth's radiation belts.

Team links comet water to Earth's oceans

Researchers have found that water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a similar molecular signature to the water in Earth's oceans. Contradicting some recent results, this finding reopens the case that Jupiter-family comets like 67P could have ...

Customized CRISPR toolkit allows remote-controlled genome editing

USC biomedical engineers have harnessed focused ultrasound to improve CRISPR, a revolutionary tool that enables the DNA in living organisms to be modified. Credit: Wang Lab and Pepper Workshop. Thanks to CRISPR ...

Massive asteroid impacts did not change Earth's climate in the long term, research finds

The rocks, both several miles wide, hit Earth about 25,000 years apart, leaving the 60-mile (100km) Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia, and the 25–55 mile (40–85km) crater in the Chesapeake Bay, in the United States—the fourth and fifth largest known ...