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The fastest-moving stars in the galaxy may be piloted by intelligent aliens, new paper suggests

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, a new paper suggests. A few known star systems might fit the bill. Comments (3). When you purchase through links on our site, ...

2 space telescope designs will battle it out to become NASA's next cosmic imager

a silver space telescope with gold mirror floats in sapce. An artist's concept of the PRIMA mission. (Image credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/ESO/S ...

Happy Thanksgiving from space! NASA astronauts beam home Turkey Day message (video)

The four NASA astronauts currently living on the International Space Station (ISS) just wished all of us all a happy Thanksgiving. Nick Hague, Don Pettit, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have beamed home a Turkey Day message from their orbital perch, ...

Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another

The New York Times

The New York Times

A million and a half years ago, amid giant storks and the ancestors of antelopes, two extinct relatives of humans walked along the same muddy lakeshore in what is today northern Kenya, new research suggests. An excavation team uncovered four sets of ...

Warm up this holiday season with NASA's new SLS rocket engine fireplace (video)

NASA is inviting you to sit by a homey, rocket-powered hearth this holiday season. The space agency created a virtual fireplace lit by the engines of its huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which sent the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the moon in ...

Northern Lights: Why An Extreme Solar Storm Now Would Be Cataclysmic

Forbes

Forbes

Six extreme solar storms have struck Earth in the past 14,500 years. They're known as "Miyake" events after Fusa Miyake, a Japanese physicist, who in 2012 described that extreme solar events leave radioactive carbon isotopes in the growth rings of trees.

'Fireball' meteor discovered hours before exploding above Niagara Falls was the smallest asteroid ever seen

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ever properly measured, researchers say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species

A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

What will it take to defend the world from an asteroid?

Science News

Science News

Fortunately, scientists are already hard at work to prevent that future. How to Kill an Asteroid by science journalist Robin George Andrews is a deep dive into the extremely badass business of thwarting a destructive asteroid.

Over 500 fossilized poops show how dinosaurs came to rule the Earth

MTPR

MTPR

Researchers have conducted what could be the largest study ever of dinosaur poop. The findings shed new light on how dinosaur's diets allowed them to dominate the planet. The analysis of hundreds of fossilized droppings (plus a little bit of petrified ...