The Milky Way ate another galaxy. Scientists say they’ve found the scraps - CNN
Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new research.
A fossil site in North Dakota appears to have captured the day the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth, right down to tiny glass beads from the impact lodged in the gills of fish that died within hours - Space Daily
The site is called Tanis, in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota. In 2019, a team led by Robert DePalma described it as a rare snapshot of the first minutes to hours after the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The most arrestin…
A slice of the static on an old untuned television was the afterglow of the Big Bang, which means millions of people spent decades staring at the oldest light in the universe without knowing it. - Space Daily
The claim is true, though the version of it that gets repeated most often is softer than it sounds. When an analog television was tuned to a channel with nothing broadcasting on it, the snow on the screen and the hiss from the speaker were built from several …
Researchers simulated 30 million routes to the Moon and found a hidden detour through L1 that saves fuel and keeps spacecraft talking to Earth the whole way - Space Daily
An international team of researchers has identified a new fuel-efficient route between Earth and the Moon that also avoids the kind of communications blackout the Artemis II crew experienced when their spacecraft slipped behind the lunar far side in April. Th…
The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon that scientists still bounce lasers off 57 years later, and the round-trip measurement is precise enough to track the Moon drifting away from Earth at the speed your fingernails grow - Space Daily
The retroreflectors left on the Moon by Apollo 11, 14, and 15 still return laser pulses fired from Earth, and 57 years of data have measured the Moon's recession at 3.8 centimeters per year while confirming Einstein's general relativity to extraordinary preci…
The Cassini spacecraft was deliberately flown into Saturn in 2017 because NASA refused to risk contaminating Enceladus, and in its final 90 seconds its thrusters fought the atmosphere so it could keep sending data home - Space Daily
{"content":"On September 15, 2017, at 11:55:46 UTC, a 22-foot-tall spacecraft the size of a school bus tore itself apart in the cloud tops of Saturn while still talking to Earth. Cassini was travel
‘T. rex of the sea’: D-FW researchers identify new ancient marine species - Dallas News
Researchers at SMU and the Perot Museum have identified a new species of mosasaur, a 'T. rex of the sea' that lived alongside dinosaurs millions of years ago.
83-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Lizard Fossil Unearthed in France - Sci.News
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of pan-shinisaur lizard from a partial upper jaw discovered in southern France, pushing the presence of its lineage in Europe back by at least 30 million years.
Neptune’s Moon Nereid May Be Lone Survivor of an Ancient Cosmic Massacre - Gizmodo
A lunar crash may have destroyed Neptune's original set of moons, leaving one oddball behind.