Something Made Earth's Molten Core Reverse Direction in 2010 - ScienceAlert
Something strange is going on, deep below the ground beneath our feet.
Figuring Out What James Webb’s Mysterious Little Red Dots Are - Hackaday
After the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations in 2022, it soon made a tantalizing discovery in the form of mysterious red dots: small, red-tinted astronomical objects of unknown orig…
'Very interesting wiggles' in data from silent NASA Mars spacecraft lead to unexpected solar wind discovery - Space
"No one expected that this effect could even occur in the atmosphere."
The Opportunity rover's famous last words — "my battery is low and it's getting dark" — were never actually sent from Mars. The real story of where that sentence came from is stranger, and somehow sadder - Space Daily
If you spend any time online, you’ve almost certainly encountered the story. When NASA’s Opportunity rover died on Mars, the tale goes, its final transmission was heartbreakingly human. As a planet-wide dust storm blotted out the sun and its solar panels fail…
Rare Ostrich-Like Dinosaur Fossil Found on Canadian Island - Sci.News
Paleontologists in Canada say they have recovered a dinosaur tail vertebra from 75- to 80-million-year-old marine rocks on a small island off the coast of British Columbia, providing the clearest evidence yet that bird-like ornithomimosaurs once roamed the an…
Supermassive black holes can render exoplanets uninhabitable at great distances - Phys.org
The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet's distance from its star. Too close, and any surface water is boiled away into space. Too far, and surface water is frozen. Both are severe limits on the prospects for life. Habitabi…
China Launched Artificial Embryos to Orbit to Find Out If We Can Have Space Babies - gizmodo.com
Human reproduction beyond Earth is no longer reserved for science fiction.
New three‑dimensional magnetic structure discovered with laser light - Phys.org
Flashes of femtosecond laser light, lasting just a few trillionths of a second, have made it possible to observe new magnetic structures for the first time. By using light as a remote control, researchers were able to switch magnetism into previously unseen t…
Carl Sagan's team considered sending a nude photograph of a man and a pregnant woman on the Voyager Golden Record, but after the controversy over the nude Pioneer plaque, the final record used a silhouette instead - Space Daily
In late 1971, after NASA approved the idea of sending a message aboard Pioneer 10, Carl Sagan was given just three weeks to prepare it. Working with astronomer Frank Drake and artist Linda Salzman Sagan, he helped create a six-by-nine-inch gold-anodized alumi…