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Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák This Comet Suddenly Started Spinning Backward Near the Sun, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
As Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák barreled toward the sun, it appeared to have stopped entirely… and then it flipped.
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Image credit: Trung Chenh Everything We Know About the Giant Fireball That Just Lit Up the Midwest Sky
If you were in the Midwest late Tuesday night and saw a bright streak tear across the sky, your eyes were working just fine.
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Space Frontier/Stringer/Getty Images Did NASA Find Life on Mars 50 Years Ago and Accidentally Kill It?
Back in 1976, NASA’s Viking Landers looked for life on Mars and came up empty. Today, a group of scientists thinks we accidentally killed it.
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Anand Purohit/Getty Images Something ‘Impossible’ Slammed Into Earth in 2023, and Scientists Have a Wild New Theory About It
The truth will depend on whether future detectors catch more neutrinos like this one.
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Photo: NASA NASA Time-Lapse Video Shows Drastic Virginia Landscape Change Over Just 9 Weeks
Nine weeks vanish in seconds, and yet so much changes. If that’s not a metaphor for life, I don’t know what is.
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Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images The Sun Just Released Four Powerful Solar Flares in One Day, Scientists Confirm
Over a 20-hour window in early February, the Sun released four major solar flares.
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Photo: janiecbros / Getty Images The Satellite Trash Surrounding Earth Is One Bad Solar Storm Away From Disaster
We’re one powerful geomagnetic storm away from knocking out global communication and navigation.
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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES How Scientists Use Earthquake Sensors to Track Space Junk Crashing to Earth
Our atmosphere is loaded with space junk, and every once in a while, it comes plummeting down to Earth in a rain of fire.
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SB/Getty Images Scientists Captured the Explosive Birth of a Solar Flare on Video
Researchers have finally caught a major solar flare in the act of being born. And even better, they got the entire thing on video.
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Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Will Earth Really Lose Gravity in 2026?
People are now believing that the earth will allegedly “lose gravity” for seven seconds on August 12, 2026. Yes, really.
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Handout/Handout/Getty Images All Those Little Red Dots in Space Might Be Young Black Holes
These black holes are buried inside thick cocoons of gas that hide most of the signals that astronomers typically use to identify them.
