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Headless 'Halloween comet' could already be doomed

While some are hoping for a bright "Halloween comet," astronomers say the speeding cosmic snowball has likely already broken apart.

Space

Mini '2001' monoliths fly into space on first flight of Blue Origin's 2nd crew ship

A number of black slabs modeled after the monoliths in "2001: A Space Odyssey" have made the trip into space and back on the first flight of Blue Origin's second human-rated launch vehicle.

Space

Spooky fireball blazes across Lake Erie a week before Halloween (video)

A fireball lit up the skies over Lake Erie on Monday (Oct. 21) evening, eliciting hundreds of witness reports to the American Meteor Society.

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Boeing-built communications satellite breaks up in orbit. 'Total loss,' operator says

The Intelsat-33e satellite is in pieces following some kind of problem in geostationary orbit, according to the company and US Space Force. An investigation is ongoing.

Space

4 large asteroids, including a skyscraper-size 'city killer,' will zoom past Earth in a 12-hour span today (Oct. 24)

Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches to Earth within less than 12 hours of one another on Thursday (Oct. 24). Two of them were only discovered earlier this month.

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30 years of polar climate data converted into menacing, 6-minute song

Geoenvironmental scientist Hiroto Nagai used publicly available climate data from the North and South poles to compose an ominous-sounding chamber music piece.

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1st triple black hole system discovered in 'happy accident'

The first "black hole triple" system, consisting of a black hole hungrily feeding on a companion star orbited by a more distant star, hints at a gentle formation process without supernova explosions.

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Boeing-made satellite shatters in orbit, and nobody knows why

Intelsat 39 being launched from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket in 2019.

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The 32 greatest '90s sci-fi movies

In the era of dial-up internet, these were the sci-fi films that blew us away

Total Film

Watch huge fireball blaze over Lake Erie in stunning videos

A fiery meteor shot across the sky above the Great Lakes on Monday (Oct. 21) just after sunset, stunning witnesses from Michigan to New York, Kentucky and North Carolina.

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‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation

Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf explains why Amoc breakdown could be catastrophic for both humans and marine life

The Guardian - UK

How old is planet Earth?

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon.

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'How big does a disaster have to be?': council's natural disaster application rejected

Upper Hunter earthquakes not considered to be natural disasters.

Newcastle Herald

SpaceX's Starlink internet flies on a Boeing 777 jet for the 1st time

SpaceX's Starlink satellites provided internet service on a Boeing 777 jet for the first time today (Oct. 22), during a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to London.

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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink broadband satellites to orbit from Florida (video)

SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast on Wednesday evening (Oct. 23).

The Independent UK

Earth is likely to have its hottest year on record – again

NASA’s top climate scientist says the planet is being tested and ‘we have not yet passed that test’

Space

Fall back to Earth with Falcon 9 payload fairings in stunning new SpaceX video

A recent SpaceX Starlink launch featured an extra video treat: a view of the Internet satellites being revealed for future Internet service. But Starlink's effects on astronomy still causes concern.

Space

See the 'comet of the century' light up the night sky in breathtaking photos

Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS proved to be photogenic as it lit up the early autumn skies of the Northern Hemisphere this month.

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What’s the difference between fusion and fission? A nuclear physicist explains

Globally, nuclear power accounts for roughly 10% of electricity generation. In some countries, such as France, this figure is nearly 70%.

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Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, 'impacting the entire world for centuries to come,' leading climate scientists warn

Leading climate scientists ring alarm bell on key Atlantic Ocean current collapse in open letter

Space

Scientists have dated the moon's oldest, and largest, impact site

The moon has been bombarded by asteroids and comets for more than 4.32 billion years.

LiveScience

Tiny photosynthetic aliens could be lurking in hidden bubbles in Mars' ice — and could soon be replicated on Earth

A new NASA-led study suggests that photosynthetic microbes could thrive in hidden bubbles of meltwater below patches of ice on Mars. This could be one of the easiest places to search for extraterrestrial life "anywhere in the universe," the team says.

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Before and after satellite images show lakes appearing across Sahara after deluge of rain soaks desert

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days.

Inverse

A Meteorite the Size of Four Mount Everests Hit Earth — It Left This Strange Aftermath

When a meteorite quadruple the size of Mount Everest slammed into ancient Earth, some microbial life thrived, a new study found.

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How many moons does Jupiter have?

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it seems.

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