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NASA’s Hubble telescope tracks rogue neutron star with mysterious origins

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed a wandering magnetar, SGR 0501+4516, raising intriguing questions about its origins and potentially shedding light on fast radio bursts. The magnetar,…

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Author: Dwaipayan Bhattacharjee

Northern Lights could be visible above UK tonight – here’s how to see them

The sun is currently undergoing its solar maximum – the peak of its 11-year cycle – when it is more likely to experience heightened solar activity, possibly creating more Northern Lights on Earth.

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Author: Sky News

How a Massive Flood 5 Million Years Ago Created the Mediterranean Sea

Over 5 million years ago, a catastrophic flood surged into the Mediterranean Sea, reshaping the entire region in just months. What caused this epic event, and how did it transform the landscape?

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Author: Melissa Ait Lounis

Northern lights ignite night sky after rare double solar eruption

Solar eruptions created a northern lights display in North America and Europe overnight, with more auroras expected through Thursday.

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Author: Patrick Pester

Most bitter tasting substance on Earth identified by scientists

Scientists found powerful bitter compounds in a mushroom, revealing new insights into how our bodies sense bitterness.

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Author: Earth.com

Northern Lights Forecast: ‘Strong’ Geomagnetic Storm May Bring Aurora Borealis To These 15 States

Forecasters issued a geomagnetic storm watch after a recent coronal mass ejection.

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Author: Ty Roush

How did water end up on Earth? New evidence upends long-held theory.

Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earthr. More specifically, where did the very first water molecules form, and how? In 2020, researchers at France’s University of Lorraine announced evidence seen in a meteorite known as Sahara 97096 that supported an increasingly popular theory: Earth’s […]

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Author: Andrew Paul

Northern Lights to be visible again tonight after dazzling parts of UK

The Met Office forecast the effects of a coronial mass ejection – a burst of material from the sun into space – would result in the colourful displays across northern parts of the UK from Tuesday evening

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Author: Angus Thompson

Aurora borealis shines in UK skies after geomagnetic storm

The Northern Lights were spotted across Scotland on Tuesday night and there may be more sightings across the north of the UK on Wednesday.

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Author: @bbcweather

Oxford Researchers Add New Wrinkle To Mystery Of Earth’s Water

New findings question how much asteroids or comets needed to deliver to create our wet world.

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Author: Eric Mack

The Lyrids are back: How to catch this year’s spring meteor shower

The night sky will dazzle this week as the Lyrid meteor shower kicks off its annual display, marking the return of one of the oldest and most reliable celestial shows of the year.

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Author: Samantha Mathewson

Scientists find evidence that overturns theories of the origin of

University of Oxford researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface. Instead, the material which built our planet was far

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Author: ox.ac.uk

Rogue Magnetar Defies Known Star Birth

A wandering cosmic powerhouse with a magnetic field trillion times stronger than Earth’s is challenging astronomers’ understanding of how the universe’s

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Author: NASA/JPL

Cambridge University finds flowers on brownfield sites ‘harm bees’

Metals in brownfield land can harm pollinators when wildflowers bloom there, say researchers.

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Author: @BBCNews

Runaway Magnetar is Traversing Milky Way from Unknown Place of Origin, Astronomers Say

SGR 0501+4516 is the likeliest candidate in our Milky Way Galaxy for a magnetar that was not born in a supernova explosion as initially predicted; the object is so strange it might even offer clues to the mechanism behind fast radio bursts.

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Author: NASA

Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health

The metals have previously been shown to damage the health of pollinators, which ingest them in nectar as they feed, leading to reduced population sizes and death. Even low nectar metal levels can

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Author: University of Cambridge

Wildflowers could be absorbing toxic metals that pass on to bees, study finds

Scientists call for urban areas to be tested for contaminants and potentially cleaned before wildflowers are planted

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Author: Helena Horton

Lyrid meteor shower: How and when to see it in the UK sky

April brings stargazers Lyrid meteor shower which peaks next week.

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Author: @bbcweather

2,000 Years Before Modern Technology, the Greeks Had Built the World’s First Computer (So Advanced That It Still Baffles Scientists)

Divers searching for sponges stumbled upon a strange, gear-filled object buried in a sunken Roman ship. What they pulled from the Aegean seafloor defied everything historians thought they knew.

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Author: Arezki Amiri

Origins of Water on Earth May Not Have Started with an Asteroid Impact

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to form water.

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Author: Paul Smaglik

Scientists have found the origin of WATER on Earth

Scientists have discovered where Earth’s water comes from, and say that it wasn’t brought to the planet by asteroid impacts after all.

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Author: Wiliam Hunter

Scientists find evidence that challenges theories of the origin of water on Earth

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a rare type of meteorite, known as an enstatite chondrite, which has a composition …

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Author: University of Oxford

Water did not come to Earth from asteroids, Oxford study suggests

New research finds far richer supplies of hydrogen were already on planet than previously thought

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Author: Sarah Knapton

The Universe May Be Rotating Once Every 500 Billion Years, And It Could Explain The Hubble Tension

A new, rotating “dark fluid” model could explain one of the trickiest problems in physics.

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Author: James Felton

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