Explorers abseiled, squeezed and crawled their way through Australia’s deepest cave system on July 30, boldly going where no cavers had gone before and setting a new cave depth record. Cavers from the Southern Tasmanian Caverneers, a speleological organization based in Hobart, Australia, made it through the 1,316-foot-deep (401 meters) cave in Tasmania, an island …
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Super-Earth is located 37 light-years from us. Scientists have discovered a Super-Earth that is four times the mass of our planet and takes just 10.8 days to complete a whole year. According to the American space agency NASA, the exoplanet, called Ross 508 b, was discovered using a new infrared monitoring technique. It is located …
A thread-like structure is visible in this image of the drill chuck. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, edited by IFLScience NASA’s Perseverance is studying Mars’s Jezero crater delta, the region it flew across interplanetary space for. And while a lot of science is being carried out, Perseverance has encountered some unexpected trash on March, mainly debris from …
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SpaceX has rolled the latest version of its massive Super Heavy rocket back to the launch pad. The “Booster 7” Super Heavy rocket prototype moved to a launch pad at Starbase, SpaceX‘s South Texas facility, overnight on Friday (Aug. 5) for testing, which is apparently happening today (Aug. 8). You can head over to NASA …
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On May 14, 2018, a tempest straight from The Twilight Zone rained over Oklahoma. Rather than scatter the Earth with jagged lightning bolts, the shrouds of dense clouds powering this storm spit one 50 miles upward, far enough to graze the ionosphere, or the edge of space. This violent, burst of electricity would soon be …
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As summer slips into autumn and nights begin to grow longer, the final supermoon of the year will make a big splash Thursday (Aug.t 11). Nicknamed the “Sturgeon Moon,” August’s full moon peaks around 9:36 pm EDT on Thursday (0136 am GMT on Friday), – although the moon will appear bright and full on Wednesday …
Stargazers will be treated to a double-header of spectacles this week, as the last meteor shower of the summer shares the sky with the final super moon of the year. The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak this week on the night of Friday, August 12 and pre-dawn on Saturday, August 13. Beloved for its …
A solar storm slammed into Earth over the weekend, and it’s possible that another one could strike later on Monday (Aug. 8). Classified as “moderate” by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (opens in new tab), the G2 geomagnetic storm, which pummeled our planet on Sunday (Aug. 7), was the …
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Tiny, monkeylike creatures called tarsiers sing duets together in the style of opera singers — but those who fail to hit the high notes may also flop at attracting mates, scientists recently suggested. With their large, pointed ears and expressive eyes, nocturnal tarsiers carry a striking resemblance to the diminutive Jedi master Yoda from “Star …
Such a phenomenon has been theorized to exist before and was explained by the fact that as gas descends into a supermassive black hole, brilliant flares of X-ray emissions are produced — exactly as seen by researchers. black hole. Source : brightstars/iStock Short X-ray flashes were then observed after the flares subsided. These flashes corresponded …
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