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Indian Ocean gravity hole was caused by extinct ancient sea, scientists say

Scientists have puzzled over the origins of a gravity hole in the Indian Ocean for years. Now, researchers think the sunken floor of an extinct ocean could be the cause.

LiveScience

The moon and Jupiter shine near Uranus tonight. Here's how to see them.

On Wednesday (July 12), the waning crescent moon will have a busy morning, first meeting up with the gas giant Jupiter before getting the cold shoulder from ice giant Uranus.

Space

Stunning solar tornado swings into space above the glowing sun (video)

A new video shows off the sun's incredible power. A 'solar tornado' erupted from the surface in April, and you can watch it in 4K resolution.

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Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship

A physicist from Harvard University has recovered 50 spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship

The Hindu

Scientists discover huge, heat-emitting blob on the far side of the moon

Scientists detected a peculiar blob of heat-emitting material buried on the far side of the moon. The most likely culprit is a rock that is very rare outside of Earth.

LiveScience

Scientists say Canadian lake marks start of the Anthropocene

The researchers say humans pushed the planet into this phase.

Axios

ISRO’s Chandrayaan 3 mission | When did it start and when will it end?

A timeline of ISRO’s upcoming Chandrayaan-3 mission, from the launch onboard LVM 3 rocket on July 14 and the landing scheduled for August 23-24.

The Hindu

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Northern lights unlikely to illuminate Chicago skies this week

The aurora forecast has changed since Monday and no longer includes Illinois.

Chicago Sun-Times

Alien Life Could Be Abundant As Cosmos Teems With Water, Study Finds

Cosmic Discovery: More Planets and Moons with Water than Previously Thought

Zenger

UN debates deep sea mining as countries and companies now allowed to seek provisional licenses

A U.N. agency tasked with regulating the deep sea is debating whether to open the Earth’s watery depths to countries and companies that are now allowed to start applying for provisional mining licenses

The Independent UK

Good news for the alien life hunt: Buried oceans may be common on icy exoplanets

Finding liquid water on exoplanets is 100 times more probable than previously thought, boosting the odds of alien life significantly, a new study suggests.

Space

Sea Level Changes Drive Earth’s Biodiversity: Study

This research challenges previous ideas about why species have changed over long periods.

Zenger

Astronomers Discover A Weird "Mirror Planet" With Clouds of Glass and Titanium

An exoplanet with clouds of glass and metal reflects 80% of the starlight that hits it.

Inverse

Does the direction water rotates down the drain depend on which hemisphere you're in? Debunking the Coriolis effect in your sink

In countries near the Earth’s equator, tourists are often dazzled by a demonstration of a mysterious physical phenomenon. A presenter will position three buckets of water – one in the Northern Hemisphere, one in the Southern Hemisphere, and one directly on the equator – and let the water drain out.

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Why This Humanoid NASA Robot Got A Gig On An Oil Rig

NASA's Valkyrie bot has its first job.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope time travels billions of years in amazing 3D visualization (video)

A new 3D journey from the James Webb Space Telescope through over 5,000 galaxies demonstrates a 13.4 billion-year journey back in time.

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How rivers on Titan and Mars flow

There are only three worlds in our solar system with rivers: Earth, Mars and Titan

Inverse

Hubble Telescope Spots Bizarre "Magnifying Glass" Optical Illusion Predicted by Einstein

A huddle of distant galaxies makes a strange streak in space, visible in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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The 1st light to flood the universe can help unravel the history of the cosmos. Here's how

Just as Darwin used the fossil record to piece together the evolution of life on Earth, scientists can use a "cosmic fossil," the universe's first light, to understand how the cosmos evolved.

LiveScience

'Anomalous' metal spheres unlikely to be alien technology, despite Harvard scientist's claim

A prominent extraterrestrial-hunting scientist thinks that more than 50 tiny, metal spheres pulled from the Pacific Ocean might be the work of intelligent aliens. Others are skeptical.

The Conversation

What El Niño means for the world's perilous climate tipping points

The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed it: El Niño conditions have arrived and are expected to become moderate to strong as they develop over the coming year. El Niño is the hot phase of a natural fluctuation in the Earth’s climate system (the full name of which is…

The Independent UK

12 homes torn apart by landslide on Southern California's Palos Verdes Peninsula

A dozen homes torn apart by earth movement on Southern California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula during the weekend are likely to fall into an adjacent canyon

The Week

The taming of Malaria

According to an oft-repeated factoid, half of all the human beings who have ever existed on Earth have been killed by malaria – equivalent to around 54.5 billion people.

Digital Camera World

Want to bid on the first photo of the Earth taken from the moon? It could be yours for $8,000

The 5ft wide image was taken in 1966 and is up for auction by Bonhams as part of the Space History sale

Space

Chandrayaan-3: A guide to India's third mission to the moon

Chandrayaan-3 is the third Indian mission to the moon. It aims to deploy a lander and a rover to the lunar surface for 14 Earth days to gather science and imagery.

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