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Space debris is coming down more frequently. What are the chances it could do real damage?

As the space industry grows, it’s safe to say such incidents will only become more frequent – and they could pose a risk. But how much of a risk, exactly?

The New Daily

What is the Qixi Festival? Google Doodle celebrates romantic Chinese legend

To celebrate the Qixi Festival, people will exchange romantic gifts with their loved ones.

Evening Standard

Why is the Earth spinning faster? Shortest day ever recorded

June 29 was 1.59 milliseconds short of 24 hours due to a strange speed-up of Earth’s rotation.

Evening Standard

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To this retired commander, the ISS was the last good bond between the U.S. and Russia

Retired Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut Terry Virts commanded the ISS in 2014 and 2015, but says he wouldn't want to partner with Russia in space until it leaves Ukraine and pays for the damage.

WEKU

Mysterious life form discovered in lava caves - and they're been there for centuries

The conditions in the volcanic caves bear the closest resemblance to Mars than anywhere else on Earth

Daily Mirror

How climate change drives inland floods

As the Earth heats up, heavy rain is getting more common across the United States. That means more severe floods happen more often.

WEKU

Plane passenger's shock after spotting mile-wide meteor crater in desert

The gigantic crater was spotted from the plane as it flew over Arizona - it was formed around 50,000 years ago when a 300ton meteor hurtled towards the earth creating a huge explosion

Daily Mirror

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NASA’s Mars rover captures new sample—and scientists hope to bring it back to Earth

Scientists are eager to transport the caches back to Earth for more detailed analysis.

Evening Standard

Tonga's volcano sent tons of water into the stratosphere. That could warm the Earth

"We've never seen anything like it," said atmospheric scientist Luis Millán, who works at NASA. The vapor sent skyward by the eruption will likely stay in the stratosphere for years.

WEKU

McKinney fire has hit the stratosphere, spewing the 'fire-breathing dragon of clouds'

LOS ANGELES — A fire big enough to make its own lightning used to be as rare as it sounds.

Los Angeles Times

Urgent warning as solar storm from hole in sun could hit Earth today wreaking havoc on power grids

Solar storms at their strongest can cause widespread blackouts and major electrical problems as electricity grids collapse and satellite navigation goes down

Irish Mirror

Solar storm hits Earth today after hole opens in the Sun

High-speed geomagnetic winds could cause power grid failures, disrupt satellites and disrupt the migrations of animals

Wales Online

Earth is spinning faster than usual, but why? What experts say after shortest day ever

Time is flying. Literally.

Tribune News Service

SpaceX capsule confirmed as source of space debris that crashed on farm in Australia

Astrophysicist expects people will find more debris in the area ‘over the coming weeks to months to even years’

The Guardian - AU

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Space debris is coming down more frequently. What are the chances it could hit someone or damage property?

In the past week alone, we’ve seen two separate incidents of space debris hurtling back to Earth in unexpected places.

Newcastle Herald

"All life on earth remains in peril": declaration that put Newcastle on the global map

"All life on earth remains in peril". So said the introduction to the 1997 "Newcastle Declaration" - a groundbreaking document that committed cities and towns across the planet to taking local actions to create a sustainable future.

Daily Mirror

Four 'malicious' alien civilisations may live inside our Milky Way

A new paper on life outside our planet calculated that a handful of evil aliens could potentially invade us - although it found the chances of it happening are "very low"

Tribune News Service

‘Prey’ star Amber Midthunder says the new ‘Predator’ prequel is groundbreaking for Indigenous representation

The new “Predator” prequel is set 300 years ago, but star Amber Midthunder believes the film makes present-day history.

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Curious Kids: is it possible to see what is happening in distant solar systems now?

If a distant solar system is millions of light years away and so we see it as it was millions of years ago, how can we see what it looks like now? Parul, aged 13, Sri Ganganagar, India

Daily Record

Earthquake strikes in rural Stirlingshire village

An earthquake struck in one rural village at the weekend. According to the British Geological Survey’s Earthquake Seismology Team, the earthquake was recorded at one of its sensor locations – on the A85, north of Lochearnhead. The tremble was recor

Dublin Live

Single mum saves over €21,500 with help of bank analysing apps

"I spent €2,990 on Amazon in one year. I thought this was disgraceful - how on earth have I spent that much?"

The Guardian - US

The world is ablaze and the oil industry just posted record profits. It’s us or them

No single crisis, no matter how existential, will be enough to shut this machine down naturally. We must break it or it will break us

The Guardian - UK

Cricket must rethink sponsorship deals amid ongoing climate crisis

The MCC says the climate crisis poses ‘an existential risk’ to cricket – so questions must be asked of many partnerships

ABC News

Earth recorded its shortest day on record recently. And that could affect our clocks

Earth's rotation has started speeding up, so timekeepers may need to delete a second to keep our clocks synchronised. So, how will that affect us?

The Conversation

Explorers just uncovered Australia’s deepest cave. A hydrogeologist explains how they form

Cave explorers have traversed what’s now the deepest known cave in Australia. On Saturday a group of explorers discovered a 401-metre-deep cave, which they named Delta Variant, in Tasmania’s Niggly-Growling Swallet cave system within the Junee–Florentine karst area. Its depth just beat out its predecessor, the Niggly Cave, by about…

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