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Iron oxide baked into Mesopotamian bricks confirms ancient magnetic field anomaly

Submit on Thursday, December 28th, 2023 00:12

About 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, brickmakers imprinted the names of their kings into clay bricks. Now, an analysis of the metal grains in those bricks has confirmed a mysterious anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field.

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NASA outlines plan to deploy burrowing ‘cryobots’ on icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter

Submit on Wednesday, December 27th, 2023 22:12

The subsurface oceans of the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter remain our best bet for finding life elsewhere in the solar system. NASA is developing a roadmap for cryobots that could investigate these ocean worlds.

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12 space medicine findings from 2023 that could help astronauts reach Mars one day

Submit on Wednesday, December 27th, 2023 21:12

Space medicine is a continuously growing field — and for good reason, if humans want to settle Mars someday.

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2023: The year UFOs descended on Washington, DC (but not like you’d expect)

Submit on Wednesday, December 27th, 2023 20:12

For those who follow news related to UFOs, 2023 will be remembered as the year that UFOs came to Washington, D.C.

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Dream Chaser enters final testing ahead of 2024 debut space flight

Submit on Wednesday, December 27th, 2023 18:11

If all goes to plan, the spacecraft dubbed ‘Tenacity’ will launch on a Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2024.

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Gold mine of kilonova explosions forged by neutron stars crashing together

Submit on Wednesday, December 27th, 2023 05:12

The gold that forms the ring on your finger was formed in the collision between two neutron stars. Now, scientists have mapped the kilonova blasts powered by these collisions in detail.

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Mold-A-Rama and the space shuttle over Earth: A space age toy story

Submit on Wednesday, December 27th, 2023 04:11

The space shuttle reentered orbit this fall after a 15-month retirement, and this time it was bright blue. The new orbiters are identical to the first ones pulled out, but this time are from Chicago.

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International Space Station astronauts hang stockings and light a menorah for the holidays (images, video)

Submit on Wednesday, December 27th, 2023 02:12

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station celebrated Christmas and Hannukah this festive season with the hanging of stockings and “lighting” a felt menorah.

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