Tasmania Meteor lights up parts of Australian skybbc.co.uk - BBC NewsVideo shows the moment the sky above the states of Tasmania and Victoria, Australia, was lit up by a meteor. Experts can't confirm the size of the meteor, which was seen at around 20:30 local time (10:30
Pollution Saturn's rings may be more ancient than previously thoughtAxios - Miriam Kramer Saturn's rings may be more ancient than previously thought, according to a new analysis published in the journal Nature Astronomy this week. Why it …
Archaeology Hitting the Books: Searching for ancient cities from spaceEngadget - Andrew TarantolaWelcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking
Alzheimer's Disease Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decline in Just Two MonthsScienceAlert - David Nield In the ongoing efforts to control and treat Alzheimer's, one of the more promising avenues of research is using electromagnetic waves to reverse …
Asteroids Giant asteroid collision in outer space kicked off ancient ice agesciencefocus.com - Jason Goodyer The cosmic crash from 470 million years ago triggered an ice age and set the stage for new species to evolve. An ice age that occurred on Earth 466 …
Spacecraft ESA spacecraft captures mosaic of Mars from orbitnewatlas.com - Anthony Wood The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a breathtaking mosaic of the Red Planet, stitched together from images taken by the agency’s Mars …
History The 'Spanish Stonehenge' Is Above Water for the First Time in 50 YearsLive Science - Brandon Specktor After 50 years out of sight beneath the waters of a manmade lake in western Spain, the 7,000-year-old megalithic monument known as the Dolmen of …
Space Exploration Russia Says It Will Keep Source of Hole (and Air Leak) on Soyuz Secret— But NASA Wants to Know: Reportspace.com - Elizabeth Howell Amid reports that the Russians will keep the cause of an air leak discovered at the International Space Station in 2018 secret, NASA Administrator …
Space Exploration Putting Astronauts on the Moon in 2024 Is a Tall Order, NASA Saysspace.com - Mike Wall If you're skeptical that NASA can put boots on the moon by 2024, you're not alone. During a hearing of the space subcommittee of the U.S. House of …
Science Scientists Identify Neurons That Help the Brain ForgetThe New York Times - Knvul SheikhOne afternoon in April 1929, a journalist from a Moscow newspaper turned up in Alexander Luria’s office with an unusual problem: He never forgot things. Dr. Luria, a neuropsychologist, proceeded to test
Geology Real-life Atlantis: Lost continent found under Europe is revealing Earth's missing historyNBC News - By Corey S. PowellResearch has turned up lost continents buried beneath Europe and in the Pacific Ocean, and there may be more. More than 2,000 years ago, Plato wrote about a land called Atlantis, where a mighty empire
News Venus was potentially habitable until a mysterious event happenedCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — Venus likely maintained stable temperatures and hosted liquid water for billions of years before an event triggered drastic changes in the planet, according to a new study. Now, Venus is a mostly
Galaxies Something Is ‘Killing’ Galaxies In Far Regions Of The Universe, And Scientists Are ConcernedThe Inquisitr - Anna Harnes It sounds like something out a Stars Wars movie, but scientists are worried and baffled by the fact something is killing galaxies in far off regions …
Culture Why Time Seems to Fly By As You Get Older, and How to Slow It Down: A Scientific Explanation by Neuroscientist David Eaglemanopenculture.com - by Josh Jones The Buddha, it’s said, struggled mightily with three specters of adulthood—aging, sickness, and death—when reflections on mortality harshed his …
Science Real-life Atlantis: Lost continent found under Europe is revealing Earth's missing historyEuronews - By Corey S. Powell with NBC News Tech and Science NewsMore than 2,000 years ago, Plato wrote about a land called Atlantis, where a mighty empire vanished beneath the waves after a series of "excessively violent earthquakes and floods." His tale has inspired
Asteroids The asteroid collision that changed life on Earth forever—without killing the dinosaursPopular Science - By Birger Schmitz/The ConversationDust from falling meteorites likely cooled the Earth's climate, leading to a boost in life in the oceans. Something mysterious happened nearly half a billion years ago that triggered one of the most important
Geek NASA Spots Lost ‘Spanish Stonehenge’ From Space After Drought Reveals StructureGeek - By Genevieve Scarano One of NASA’s Earth observation satellites captured images of Spain’s Peraleda de la Mata coast and they detected a lost “Spanish Stonehenge” that …
Geek Spooky 'Black Hole' on Jupiter Is Just a Big ShadowGizmodo - George Dvorsky NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently caught this ominous view of Jupiter, which shows a massive black spot atop the gas giant’s churning clouds. Looks …
Black Holes Where Do Black Holes Lead?space.com - David Crookes, All About Space magazine So there you are, about to leap into a black hole. What could possibly await should — against all odds — you somehow survive? Where would you end up …
Science Here Are New Pics of That Weird Substance China Found on the Moonfuturism.com - Victor Tangermann China’s Yutu-2 lunar lander just sent back new images of a strange substance it found near a small crater on the far side of the Moon. Last month, the …
Galaxies Something Is Killing Galaxies in Extreme Regions of the Universerealclearscience.com - Toby Brown In the most extreme regions of the universe, galaxies are being killed. Their star formation is being shut down and astronomers want to know why. The …
Oceans This Is Exactly What Will Happen After the Last Fish in the Ocean DiesVICE - Mike PearlPicture a beach along the same vast ocean you know today—the same powerful waves and shifting tides, reflecting the same beautiful sunsets, even the same green-blue water. Now imagine a crowd gathered
Tardigrades Thousands of Spilled 'Water Bears' Found on the Moonweather.com An Israeli spacecraft crashed on the moon leaving thousands of tardigrades, which are one of Earth's most indestructible creatures, on the Moon. Probe …
Sailing Magellan was first to sail around the world, right? Think again.National Geographic - Erin BlakemoreFive hundred years on, the explorer’s legacy is complicated—and contested. Five hundred years ago, Ferdinand Magellan began a historic journey to circumnavigate the globe. Simple, right? Not really— the
Magnetism Mysterious magnetic pulses discovered on MarsNational Geographic - Robin George AndrewsThe nighttime events are among initial results from the InSight lander, which also found hints that the red planet may host a global reservoir of liquid water deep below the surface. At midnight on Mars,
Science Bioreactor absorbs CO2 400x more effectively than treesnewatlas.com - Nick Lavars When it comes to organic processes that we can leverage to tackle the runaway problem of climate change, the carbon-absorbing abilities of algae may …
Asteroids International Space Agencies Are Going to Smash a Spacecraft Into an AsteroidScienceAlert - Michelle Starr The time has come. We're going to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid. The asteroid is Didymos B, the smaller of the two objects in the Didymos binary …
Volcanoes A colossal volcano on Jupiter’s Moon Io is about to blow its topbgr.com - Mike Wehner Volcanic eruptions happen regularly here on Earth, and for the most part, we’ve learned to deal with them. But volcanism isn’t something that’s …
Solar Eclipse NASA Juno orbiter captures solar eclipse on JupiterQuartz - Johnny SimonNASA’s Juno orbiter has captured stunning images of the swirling, hypnotic beauty of Jupiter in the three years it has been observing our solar system’s largest planet. On Sept. 12, Juno sent back a scene
