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Rare meteorite provides evidence of giant early planet - Phys.org

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crash...

A thief took $50,000 worth of bikes; the cops didn't care - Escape Collective

Somehow, a Bay Area bike thief knew exactly where area riders lived and what was in their garages. To get their bikes ba...

The light from the Andromeda Galaxy — the most distant object visible to the naked human eye — left its source about 2.5 million years ago, which means when you look at it on a clear night, you are seeing light that began its journey to Earth around the time th - Space Daily

On a clear, moonless autumn night, away from city lights, the patch of sky between the constellations Andromeda and Cass...

Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft - Futurism

A new paper claims that the "asteroid" a Japanese probe is approaching is actually a spacecraft of its own.

Bright green fireball meteor streaks over Northeast Ohio, Great Lakes region - Cleveland.com

USPS postmark change: What you need to know about the date on your mail - AL.com

There is a planet 63 light-years from Earth where the rain is made of molten glass, the winds blow at 7,000 kilometres per hour, the daytime temperature is over 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the planet itself, viewed from space, is the same deep blue as Earth. - Space Daily

The planet’s name is HD 189733b. It is one of the closest extrasolar planets to Earth that can be studied in detail, and...

More than 60% of the water in a wood frog's body can freeze solid each winter: its heart stops, it stops breathing, and for more than 7 months it can lie essentially a frogsicle, before it thaws out in spring and simply hops away - Space Daily

Freezing solid is supposed to be the end. Ice forming inside a body generally stops the chemistry of life. For almost ev...

For satellites as small as a briefcase, getting around in space just got a whole lot easier - Phys.org

MIT engineers are testing a new propulsion system that combines the power and speed of conventional chemical thrusters w...

Massive Booms Shook the East Coast for over 300 Years. Scientists Finally Found the Source of the Sonic Explosions. - Yahoo

The cannon-like sound could be heard for hundreds of miles, but its cause long remained a mystery.

Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms - Space

Unfortunately for meteorite-hunters, it appears that pieces of the space rock all fell into the middle of Cape Cod Bay.

Scientists Think a Cosmic Particle Accelerator Shot a Mystery Particle Right at Earth - extremetech.com

A gigantic "blazar" may have fired a beam of light-speed particles at our planet, creating a 2023 "ghost particle" detec...