NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts discuss mission upon return to Earth
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Millions of years after dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the skeleton of a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex was introduced to the public in Switzerland on Wednesday ahead of its auction next month. "The name of this skeleton is ‘Trinity’, because it's built out of three individuals and all were found in the U.S.," said Cyril Koller, owner of the auction house conducting the sale. Discoveries of T-Rex fossils are extremely rare, said Hans Jacob-Siber, a paleontologist at the Aathal Dinosaur Museum in Switzerland.
- Live Science
Object mistaken as a galaxy is actually a black hole pointed directly at Earth
An object once thought to be a radio galaxy is actually an active black hole that changed angles to point directly at Earth, new research suggests.
- The Telegraph
A new age of spying gives Kyiv the upper hand
In February last year, surrounded by takeaway pizza, a group of students at a tiny liberal arts college in the US sat watching Google Maps. Earlier that day they’d unearthed a TikTok video showing a column of tanks positioned just outside the Russian city of Belgorod. Now, they looked on as a series of traffic-jam alerts turned the roads between Belgorod and the Ukrainian border red.
- Live Science
China discovers strange glass beads on moon that may contain billions of tons of water
Scientists detected water trapped inside glass spherules on the moon after analyzing soil samples brought back by China's Chang'e-5 mission.
- Space
Brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen a 1-in-10,000-years event that's 'absolutely monstrous,' scientists say
"The BOAT"' was about 70 times brighter than any other gamma-ray burst that scientists have observed, a new study reports.
- Business Insider
6 'facts' about human evolution that are wrong
Human evolution is a complex topic that's easy to misunderstand and many myths persist about the past, present, and future of the human species.
- Time
Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down
Eliezer Yudkowsky warns that we've entered a bleak scenario
- SYFY
NASA’s JWST returns an alien weather report from a distant world
If you go outside, look up at the night sky, and see a cloud from another world, you might be in for one of the worst or best nights of your life. For the characters in Jordan Peele’s 2022 science fiction horror film Nope, the appearance of an alien cloud was a nearly surefire ticket to a horrifying death. Much like the ordinary clouds we’re used to, the creature which came to be known as Jean Jacket appeared to change shape before our very eyes. It could look like a flying cowboy hat one minute
- Space
Private Japanese moon lander sends home stunning image from lunar orbit
The Hakuto-R spacecraft operated by the Japanese company ispace snapped the image of a sunlit section of the moon following its arrival in lunar orbit on March 20.
- Popular Mechanics
Scientists Just Discovered One of the Biggest Black Holes. Ever.
Researchers just found an ultramassive black hole—one of the biggest black holes ever discovered. Here are all the details.
- The Daily Beast
See This New Snapshot of the Brightest Space Explosion Ever Witnessed
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / HandoutLast October, astronomers notched another record for the books when they observed the brightest-ever gamma ray burst ever seen, which released an explosion that traveled over 1.9 billion light-years to sweep through the solar system. A follow-up investigation unveils new secrets about the explosion in unprecedented detail—giving scientists a better understanding of what happened and how such an event rollicked through space.The gamma ray burst “gave
- The Telegraph
Witness’s equation ‘proves’ Gwyneth Paltrow is telling the truth
An expert witness on the stand in the Gwyneth Paltrow trial used Newton’s theory of gravity to explain why he believed the actress’s account of the Utah ski collision was more likely than her accuser’s.
- Florida Today
NASA's historic crawler-transporter gets Guinness World Records recognition
NASA's historic crawler-transporter hardware has finally thrown around its weight enough – literally – to gain recognition in Guinness World Records.
- Space
James Webb Space Telescope finds a 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet that defies expectations
The atmospheres of gas giant planets across the Milky Way galaxy can be very different from those in the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope has found.
- USA TODAY
Fact check: Earth's curvature first photographed in 1930s, contrary to post
The first photographs documenting the Earth’s curvature were taken in the 1930s.
- Reuters
Damaged Russian Soyuz capsule lands back on Earth from space station
The module completed the almost two-hour return from the ISS without a crew, landing in the Kazakh steppe on Tuesday afternoon, a few hundred kilometres from the Baikonur cosmodrome, home to Russia's space launches. The landing was broadcast online by the Russian space agency Roscosmos. A significant coolant leak was discovered in the capsule last December - caused by a 0.8-millimetre hole in its outer skin.
- The Telegraph
How humans will colonise the Moon – and when it will happen
It was 60 years ago, on September 12, 1962, that President John F Kennedy pledged to put a man on the Moon before that decade was through. Now NASA has stated that humans will be living and working there within the next 10 years.
- Miami Herald
Abandoned mine — turned Roman rubbish dump — reveals life in France 1,800 years ago
Layer after layer of the city’s history emerged from the ancient trash heap.
- Business Insider
'Magical' nails found in a 2,000-year-old Roman tomb were meant to stop the restless dead from haunting the living, archaeologists say
The burial site, found at Sagalassos in Turkey, contained 41 bent nails that were believed to have formed a magical barrier between the dead and the living.
- Live Science
Gargantuan black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun is one of the largest ever discovered
Astronomers used gravitational lensing and supercomputers to identify the colossal black hole, which is among the largest ever found.