Largest known Martian meteorite on Earth sold at auction for $5.3 million
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Giant space 'boulders' released by NASA's DART mission are not behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of asteroid deflection.
The European Space Agency's LICIACube spacecraft captured images of the debris field shortly after the impact of DART from Dimorphos. Studying these images yielded unexpected results. (Photo: NASA DART and LICIACube team) Three years ago, NASA made history by deliberately…
After a series of earthquakes in Iceland, lava is gushing out of a giant crack – and the photos are absolutely stunning.
Lava flows along the crack as if it were a wall of fire. (Image courtesy of the Civil Protection Department of the National Commissioner of Police) A volcanic eruption has caused lava to spill out of a huge crack in…
Scientists thought sloths didn't fart. But then one was caught on camera farting.
For years, scientists believed sloths didn't fart, assuming that the methane produced by their slow digestion was simply absorbed into the blood and exhaled through the mouth. But now researchers have captured what may be the world's first video of…
Behold the 'Beast': A giant animal-shaped plasma plume 13 times wider than Earth hangs above the Sun.
The “beast” appeared over the northeastern edge of the sun on Saturday (July 12). It raged for more than three hours before finally disappearing. (Photo: Michael Jaeger) A giant plasma plume nicknamed “the Beast” was recently spotted dancing above the…
Scientists have discovered long-lost giant rivers that flowed through Antarctica up to 80 million years ago
The rivers were probably formed as a result of the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, which separated Antarctica from Australia. (Image courtesy of Guy Paxman) Scientists have stumbled upon a long-lost landscape that has been preserved beneath the Antarctic ice…