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Israel ‘Meteorite’ Isn’t a Meteorite [UPDATE]
That's no space rock: The Israeli 'meteorite' that never was (Ilan Lilush, Tel Aviv Police). UPDATE (April 25): The unidentified combustible object has been identified as being “man made” rather than...
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Indonesia ‘Meteorite’ Wiped Out a House… Or Not.
A week after Israel played host to the amazing burning ‘meteorite’, another report is coming in about a ‘meteorite’ strike in East Jakarta, Indonesia. (Note the use of the famous ‘skeptical quotes’.)...
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Space Agency Confirms Indonesia ‘Meteorite’
So, according to The Jakarta Post, last week’s ‘meteorite’ (these skeptical ‘quotes’ are getting ridiculous) that smashed down in East Jakarta, through the roof of a house, was in fact a meteorite. But...
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Did the Cosmos Deliver a Googly? ‘Meteorite’ Lands on Cricket Pitch
While enjoying a cricket county match, two spectators were apparently treated to one of the rarest of cosmic events: a meteorite falling from the sky, landing right in front of them. The “dark” rock,...
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Compex Magnetic Eruption Witnessed by Solar Observatories
Solar Dynamics Observatory view of the solar disk shortly after eruption (NASA). This morning, at 08:55 UT, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) detected a C3-class flare erupt inside a sunspot...
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The Day Aliens Invaded… [UPDATE]
UPDATE (Mon. 9:50 a.m. PT): Shocker. NASA refutes Hoover’s claims. Apparently his paper failed peer review for publication in the International Journal of Astrobiology… in 2007! More here: “NASA...
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The Ultimate Paternity Test: Are We Martian?
"Dad?" A scene from War of the Worlds. This rather outlandish, sci-fi notion comes straight from the fertile minds of researchers from MIT, the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University who...
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Want to Feel Good? Watch the Aurora Borealis in HD
The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo. I actually posted this jaw-dropping video on Discovery News last month, but today it got picked up on Digg, so I was reminded why I had to feature it. The...
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On Gingrich’s Moon Base Plan (and Why It Won’t Happen)
A base on the Moon? That would be awesome! But it can't be done for profit... yet (ESA). For more on this topic, you can listen to me chat with BBC 5live’s Dotun Adebayo (from “Up All Night” on Jan. 28...
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R2-D2 On The Moon? Why Not!
“R2, where are you?” On the moon… Credit: NASA/Corbis/Ian O’Neill/Discovery News Sometimes, all it takes is the slightest of hints before I start Photoshopping stuff on the Moon that shouldn’t be...
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Doomsday, Whenever: Massive Asteroid Impacts Probably Happen at Random
We always seem to be “overdue” a devastating asteroid impact, but how can we be overdue if asteroids don’t have an impact schedule? Don Davis/NASA Humans are naturally tuned to seek out patterns in...
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The Strangely-Named “Worm Moon” of March 12, 2017
Full moon of March 12, 2017, the so-called “Worm Moon.” Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T5i (©Ian O’Neill) “Super Moon,” “Harvest Moon,” “Blood Moon,” “Super-Blood Moon” … we have a lot of weird names for...
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NASA Uses Gravitational Wave Detector Prototype to Detect ‘Space Mosquito’...
Artist impression of ESA LISA Pathfinder in interplanetary space (ESA) Imagine speeding down the highway and plowing into an unfortunate swarm of mosquitoes. Now imagine that you had the ability to...
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Cassini Sees Earth and Moon Through Saturn’s Rings
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute NASA’s Cassini mission sure has a knack for putting stuff into perspective — and this most recent view from Saturn orbit is no different. That dot in the center...
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Great Balls of ‘Space Mud’ May Have Built Earth and Delivered Life’s Ingredients
Artist’s impression of the molten surface of early Earth (NASA) When imagining how our planet formed 4.6 billion years ago from the protoplanetary disk surrounding our sun, images of large pieces of...
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The Sun Just Unleashed a Massive Explosion — at Mars
NASA/ESA/SOHO The Earth and Mars are currently on exact opposite sides of the sun — a celestial situation known as “Mars solar conjunction” — a time when we have no way of directly communicating with...
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Sorry, Proxima Centauri Is Probably a Hellhole, Too
The surface of Proxima b as imagined in this artist’s impression. Sadly, the reality probably doesn’t include an atmosphere (ESO/M. Kornmesser) The funny thing about habitable zones is that they’re not...
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The Solar Eclipse Is Going to Cost the U.S. $700 Million? Good.
A photo of the 2012 annular eclipse from Malibu, Calif., using an old digital camera and solar filter (Ian O’Neill) The U.S. media is currently saturated with hot takes, histories, weird facts, “how...
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Heavy Stellar Traffic Sends Dangerous Comets Our Way
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) as imaged by TRAPPIST–South national telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in 2013 (TRAPPIST/E. Jehin/ESO) Sixty-six million years ago Earth underwent a cataclysmic change....
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It’s a Trap: Extraterrestrial Ozone May be Hidden at Exoplanets’ Equators
ESO/M. KORNMESSER Fortunately for life on Earth, our planet has an ozone layer. This high-altitude gas performs an invaluable service to biology, acting as a kind of global “sunscreen” that blocks the...
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