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Home News Skywatching An Eta Aquarid meteor streaks across the sky. (Image credit: David Kingham/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Meteor streaks delighted skywatchers this weekend as the Earth passed through the dust trail of Halley's Comet in an annual meteor shower display.The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, which is visible in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres in…

An artist’s impression of what a lunar base could look like. Scientists exploring whether lunar resources can be used to facilitate human exploration on the moon or beyond have reported that lunar soil contains active compounds that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuels. Credit: ESA – P. CarrilSoil on the moon contains active…

Space & Cosmos|Hear the Weird Sounds of a Black Hole Singinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/science/space/astronomy-black-hole-sound.htmlOut ThereAs part of an effort to “sonify” the cosmos, researchers have converted the pressure waves from a black hole into an audible … something.VideoSound waves of the Perseus galaxy cluster were resynthesized after boosting their frequency quadrillions of times, scaling them 57 to 58…

Home News SPACE JELLYFISHFrom today’s SpaceX launch. Beautiful pic.twitter.com/98mzIGHDOmMay 6, 2022See moreIn the wee morning hours of Thursday(May 5), a camera in Waycross, Georgia witnessed a mysterious object streaking through the sky. Bright, fast and trailed by a glowing oblong aura, the object looked a bit like a space jellyfish, as Chris Combs, a professor…

WARPED WORLD 15:25 ET, May 6 2022Updated: 15:26 ET, May 6 2022ASTRONAUTS' brains are changing as a byproduct of the zero gravity conditions. Side effects of space travel are under close watch as governments and private industry ramp up efforts to take people off-world. 4Astronaut Nick Hague is carried by a Nasa team after returning…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX artist's concept of a city on Mars. (Image credit: SpaceX) A crewed Mars mission could happen sooner than you think.Astronauts will likely make it to the Red Planet's surface before the end of the 2020s, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC's Shepard Smith recently."I think it will…

Home News An illustration of two trilobites (Olenoides serratus) mating on the seafloor during the Cambrian period, with the male (top) hugging the female below.  (Image credit: Holly Sullivan, https://www.sulscientific.com/)Trilobites may not look like cuddly creatures, but come mating time, one species of these now-extinct arthropods — which looked like giant, swimming potato bugs wearing…

Japanese Lantern Effect; Larry Johnson, CC license Night sky fans, on May 15-16 look up to see the blood-red spectacle that is a total lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse occurs when the full moon slips into the Earth’s shadow—and those watching from South America and the eastern side of North America are in for quite…

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