An asteroid the size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa has been spotted just days before it screams past Earth in the latest near-miss astronomers have tracked.
NASA has announced that asteroid 2025 OW is expected to pass within 393,000 miles of Earth…
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Earth’s Most Dangerous Glacier Is Gaining Ice—And Scientists Can’t Explain Why
A remarkable image taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) offers a breathtaking view of three glaciers merging into one massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountain range. These glaciers, located in one of Earth’s…
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Does Superheating Have No Limit? Solid Gold Superheated To 14 Times Its Melting Point Bypasses The “Entropy Catastrophe”
Researchers have been able to heat up a sample of solid gold to over 14 times its melting temperature for a fraction of a second, bypassing a theoretical limit known as the entropy catastrophe. The approach, known as superheating, might lead to a…
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Why Did The Universe Begin?
Most cosmologists agree that our universe had a beginning. But the finer details about the Big Bang remain a mystery. A history of everything would explain all, or so theoretical physicists hoped. In his final years, Stephen Hawking working…
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How the Brain Decides to Flee or Freeze
Summary: A new study reveals how evolution fine-tunes instinctive fear responses by tweaking a key neural switch deep in the brain. Comparing two deer-mouse species, researchers found that forest-dwelling mice have hypersensitive escape circuits,…
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Astronomers calculate that the universe will die in 33 billion years — much sooner than we thought
Tantalizing evidence hints that dark energy might be evolving, leading some cosmologists to suggest that our universe will collapse in a “Big Crunch” sooner than expected.
Over the past year, massive surveys of galaxies by both the Dark Energy…
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“It’s Not Supposed to Be Here”: New Borisov-Style Comet Tears Through the Solar System and Splits Astronomers Over Its Origins
IN A NUTSHELL - ? Gennady Borisov discovers comet C/2025 J1, a celestial body with unique characteristics, dubbed “almost interstellar.”
- ? The comet follows an exceptionally inclined orbit, at 95.44 degrees to the…
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Missing 40 Percent Of Matter In The Universe Finally Discovered: “The Simulations Were Right All Along”
The regular matter that makes us, planets, stars, and galaxies is about 5 percent of the matter-energy content of the universe. The rest is made of dark matter and dark energy, though we are not sure what they are. There is also uncertainty…
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About 700m years ago, the Earth froze over entirely – now we may know why | Climate science
It’s hard to believe, but about 700m years ago it’s thought that our planet completely froze over with little to no liquid ocean or lakes exposed to the atmosphere, even in the tropics. But what tipped Earth’s climate into “Snowball…
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Sir Francis Graham-Smith obituary | Astronomy
Sir Francis Graham-Smith, who has died aged 102, was the last of the generation that created modern radio astronomy, the branch of astronomy that studies the universe with radio waves, in the 1940s and 50s. His PhD thesis, on the first Cambridge…
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