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One of these 19 amazing night sky images will win 2023 Astronomy Photo of the Year

The Royal Observatory of Greenwich released a shortlist of the top submissions for 2023 Astronomy Photo of the Year. and the pictures are incredible.

Space

From the Lab: French researchers uncover why solar system planets are unlikely to collide

More than 30 years ago researchers discovered that the orbits of the four terrestrial planets in our solar system - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars - are chaotic. Despite this behaviour, French researchers believe their orbits are stable and the chances of a planetary collision are slim.

Radio France Internationale

The universe is humming with gravitational waves. Here's why scientists are so excited about the discovery

The very fabric of the universe is ringing with gravitational waves from its earliest epoch, and researchers have finally "heard" this cosmic symphony.

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Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth

The Independent UK

Mexican mayor marries a crocodile

A mayor of a Mexican town has married a crocodile bride in a traditional ritual for prosperity, reported the BBC. Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa could be seen kissing the reptile, whose snout had been tied shut. The seven-year-old crocodile is believed to symbolise a deity linked with mother earth and…

The Week

Alone in a dark cave: what can we learn from extreme survival experiments?

Why do humans undertake journeys of personal exploration, or subject themselves to challenging conditions for long periods of time? What might we learn from their experiences?

The Conversation

The Earth's Corr: Ulster Rugby's plastic and rubber pitch approval not upping #URgame on the environment

The damage microplastics can cause is well documented

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Readers reply: how different are modern humans from the first Homo sapiens?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The Guardian - UK

Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen says a Canadian will walk on the moon one day

Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen is deep in training for his round-the-moon mission set to launch in 2024. He says Canada is just getting started with lunar exploration.

Space

Never mind the fate of life on Earth, what about the cat-children?

Confected controversies and Jonny Bairstow’s supposed heroics generate more concern than genuine unfolding catastrophe

The Guardian - UK

Do the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean mix?

Photos show what looks like a line between the Atlantic and Pacific with different water colors on either side, but is there some kind of barrier or do the two oceans mix?

LiveScience

We have pumped so much water from the ground the Earth has tilted 80cm

The planet turns around a point, known as its rotational pole, and moving masses of water around the planet has shifted its balance

Wales Online

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

The Independent UK

SpaceX launches Euclid space telescope to study ‘dark universe’

Dark energy and dark matter are enigmatic concepts targeted by a European Space Agency space telescope named Euclid that launched from the Space Coast on Saturday.

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Salon

Star Trek tests Khan's wrathful legacy

The series tasks the greatest "Trek" villain's descendant to save the timeline that takes humanity to the stars

Bangkok Post

Europe's space telescope launches to target universe's dark mysteries

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (UNITED STATES) - Europe's Euclid space telescope blasted off Saturday on the first-ever mission aiming to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter.

Inverse

Look Up! July’s Full Buck Moon Will Rise This Week

The Moon is gearing up for its brightest show of the month just before the Independence Day holiday.

Inverse

Star Trek Is Using Time Travel to Fix a Canon Problem — And Set a Brilliant New Precedent

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The Hindu

Europe's Euclid space telescope set for launch to explore 'dark universe'

A SpaceX rocket in Florida stood poised for launch on Saturday carrying the euclid space telescope built to shed light on mysterious cosmic phenomena known as dark energy and dark matter, unseen forces scientists say account for 95% of the known universe.

LiveScience

Is there an 'up' and a 'down' in space?

Any object with mass distorts the space-time continuum, which we perceive as gravity pulling us "down" toward that object's center.

The Independent UK

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific

LiveScience

Science news this week: Gravitational waves and a winged Medusa medal

July 01, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

The Independent UK

Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the 'new abnormal'

As smoky as the summer has been so far, scientists say it will likely be worse in future years because of climate change

A subtle symphony of ripples in spacetime – astronomers use dead stars to measure gravitational waves produced by ancient black holes

An international team of astronomers has detected a faint signal of gravitational waves reverberating through the universe. By using dead stars as a giant network of gravitational wave detectors, the collaboration – called NANOGrav – was able to measure a low-frequency hum from a chorus of ripples of spacetime.

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