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Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service A simulated image of the ozone hole in October over Antarctica.…

A vast "canyon of fire" at least double the width of the United States was carved into the sun's southern hemisphere Wednesday (Oct. 31). The culprit? A large magnetic filament eruption from the sun, according to spaceweather.com. This activity generated a canyon roughly 6,200 miles wide (10,000 km) and 10 times as long. These solar filaments…

Dark energy illustration. Credit: Visualization by Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science Institute. Simulation by Martin White, UC Berkeley and Lars Hernquist, Harvard UniversityCould one of the biggest puzzles in astrophysics be solved by reworking Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity? Not yet, according to a new study co-authored by <span…

Revealing new data has pulled back the curtain on a network of "geological hazards" sitting beneath a portion of Yellowstone National Park, according to scientists studying the land in that region. With the help of lidar technology — which used a sensor and laser to map the ground underneath dense forests and other foliage — the data shed light…

We've named the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ in our top three best beginner telescopes of all time and we've spotted its heavy discount during Black Friday over at Amazon.Save over $180 on this beginner Celestron telescope and bag a bargain this Black Friday and Cyber Monday at retail giant Amazon. Originally $150 off, and now they've…

NASA's ambitious Artemis 1 moon mission is go to return to the pad, one last time, ahead of launch.The Artemis 1 stack will make the roughly 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) journey from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B on Aug. 18, NASA confirmed on Friday (Aug. 5). The rollout will keep Artemis 1 on track to launch…

Brasilodon quadrangularis was a small shrew-like creature, around 20 centimeters (8 inches) long, that walked the earth 225 million years ago at the same time as some of the oldest dinosaurs and sheds light on the evolution of modern mammals, according to a team of Brazilian and British scientists.The discovery was made by researchers from the…

Stoop-backed, heavy-browed, communicating in ape-like grunts, impressions of the Neanderthal as a simple-minded brute a few steps below modern humans on the evolutionary ladder have endured since their discovery in the mid-19th century.In spite of the myriad of findings detailing their genetic and cultural similarities, our long-extinct…

NASA will unveil potential future landing sites for a human return to the surface of the moon, and you can watch the briefing on Space.com today (Aug. 19), or directly on the space agency's website. NASA is serious about getting humans back to the moon this decade and has already worked out the most convenient landing sites that will be…

Comment on this storyCommentHuman-driven climate change has set in motion massive ice losses in Greenland that couldn’t be halted even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, according to a new study published Monday.The findings in Nature Climate Change project that it is now inevitable that 3.3 percent of the Greenland ice sheet…