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‘Baby’ island appears in Pacific Ocean after underwater volcano erupts
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The Central Tonga Islands welcomed the birth of a new baby – a baby island, that is.
The new baby island emerged in the southwest Pacific Ocean, where…
Fast radio burst: Studies reveal details about the origin
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are bright, powerful emissions of radio waves ranging from a fraction of a millisecond to a few milliseconds, each producing energy equivalent to the sun's annual output. Recent research suggested that some…
Water found in asteroid dust may offer clues to origins of life on Earth | Space
Specks of dust that a Japanese space probe retrieved from an asteroid about 186 million miles (300m kilometres) from Earth have revealed a surprising component: a drop of water.The discovery offers new support for the theory that life on…
NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket passes crucial fueling test
NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket passed a critical fueling test Wednesday (Sept. 21), potentially keeping it on track for a planned Sept. 27 liftoff.Artemis 1 will send an uncrewed Orion capsule to lunar orbit using a giant Space Launch…
Scientists Discover an Invisible Phenomenon
The discovery is a step towards much more accessible superconductivity.It may be possible to develop superconductors that operate at room temperature with further knowledge of the relationship between spin liquids and superconductivity,…
Welcome To Jurassic Puke | Defector
The word fossil might conjure the bones of a creature itself—a towering T. rex, a tiny trilobite, an average-sized giant sloth. But life can be immortalized in other, more oblique ways: in the traces an organism leaves behind while going…
Earth has 20 quadrillion ants, new population study says
It’s the ants’ world, and we’re just visiting.A new estimate for the total number of ants burrowing and buzzing on Earth comes to a whopping total of nearly 20 quadrillion individuals.That staggering sum — 20,000,000,000,000,000, or…
NASA Makes Final Preparations to Crash Spacecraft into Asteroid
The American space agency NASA is making final preparations to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid in the world’s first planetary defense test.
The mission is called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART. The DART spacecraft…
Scientists Thought a Bacteria Was Harmless – They Were Wrong
Scientists have discovered that a type of bacteria is not as harmless as previously thought. It can actually cause infections in patients with bronchiectasis, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).An international…
Watch SpaceX launch Starlink satellites tonight after several delays
Update, 9:15 p.m. EDT: SpaceX has scrubbed the launch due to poor weather. The new launch date is Saturday (Sept. 17) at 8:43 p.m. EDT (1243 GMT Sunday, Sept. 18). SpaceX's webcast will begin at 8:30 pm ET (0030 GMT).SpaceX plans to…