A team of astronomers monitoring interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have found something a little surprising. Our third confirmed interstellar visitor appears to have changed color for the second time. Mea… [+5811 chars]

Behind the Sun, the comet appears to show signs of acceleration beyond what is expected by gravity. And for reasons not yet clear, it appears to have changed color.

IFLScience

Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Changed Color Again, And Shows Signs Of Non-Gravitational Acceleration - IFLScience

Astronomers have spotted the biggest flare ever seen erupting around a black hole, which also happens to be the most distant flare of this type ever detected.
Discovered using the Zwicky Transient F… [+5574 chars]

The star causing this flare is not yet fully devoured: "Like a fish only halfway down the whale's gullet."

Space.com

Scientists detect biggest black hole flare ever seen — with the power of 10 trillion suns - Space

Where is it? Finniss Springs plateau,South Australia [-29.532472, 137.468390]
What's in the photo? A 2-mile-tall geoglyph of an Aboriginal Australian hunter carved into the ground in the outback
Wh… [+4192 chars]

A 2019 satellite photo shows the recently resurrected "Marree Man" geoglyph, which mysteriously appeared in the Australian outback in 1998. Experts are still unsure who created it.

Live Science

2-mile-tall, naked 'Marree Man' looming over Australian outback is a total mystery — Earth from space - Live Science

At the end of 2019, astronomers discovered strange objects in our sky. These surprisingly circular objects appeared in radio wave data. Odd Radio Circles, or ORCs, which researchers had linked to col… [+3199 chars]

At the end of 2019, astronomers discovered strange objects in our sky. These surprisingly circular objects appeared in radio wave data. Odd Radio Circles, or ... Read more

Evidencenetwork.ca

No one had ever seen it before, a perfect circle floating in the Milky Way is baffling astronomers! - Evidence Network

If you step outside this week and look toward the eastern horizon after sunset, you might notice the moon shining a little brighter than usual. 
This is not your eyes playing tricks on you – its one… [+3799 chars]

This month's Beaver Moon will be the largest and brightest of 2025, and it’s one of the closest supermoons we have seen in years.

Earth.com

Beaver Moon: The closest supermoon of 2025 brightens the skies this week - Earth.com

Strange glassy blobs strewn across the Australian desert are evidence of an ancient meteorite impact that scientists hadn't noticed until now.
According to a new analysis led by geoscientist Anna Mu… [+4483 chars]

Strange glassy blobs strewn across the Australian desert are evidence of an ancient meteorite impact that scientists hadn't noticed until now.

ScienceAlert

Strange Glass in Australia Reveals a Massive Impact We Never Knew About - ScienceAlert

Vast differs from its space station cohorts by flying a series of progressively more complex demos.

Ars Technica

A commercial space station startup now has a foothold in space - Ars Technica

Supermassive black holes remain full of mysteries, from their formation to their behaviors. One of them might soon be solved, though this wont be coming from some new space observations. The insights… [+2623 chars]

This work uses particle colliders to solve the gamma-ray mystery related to blazars jets!

World's First Plasma "Fireballs" Help Explain Supermassive Black Hole Mystery - IFLScience

When things dont make sense in the quantum realm, scientists dont always get to find a good explanation for what theyre seeing. Many times, they arrive at a solution by accidentsomething that usually… [+3298 chars]

Physicists finally identified why some quantum materials seemingly lose their electrical conductivity for no reason.

Gizmodo.com

Physicists Decode Particle Dance That ‘Kills’ Electrical Conductivity - Gizmodo

Heads up stargazers! The Southern Taurid meteor shower peaks overnight on Nov. 4-5, when a flurry of bright meteors could potentially be seen streaking through Earth's sky as our planet passes throug… [+3963 chars]

A full moon with a chance of fireballs: Don't miss the Southern Taurid meteor shower peak overnight on Nov. 4-5

A full moon with a chance of fireballs: Don't miss the Southern Taurid meteor shower peak overnight on Nov. 4-5 - Space

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, chaotic bundles of turbulent gas, churned up by huge gulps of intergalactic gas,… [+6416 chars]

Our universe's oldest galaxies were hot messes

Our universe's oldest galaxies were hot messes - Space

How do we know were not living in a computer simulation? Is it even possible to tell? For what its worth, researchers have drawn from various scientific frameworks to reject this hypothetical hypothe… [+3298 chars]

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue.

Reality Is Too Complex For Any Cosmic Computer Simulation, Study Suggests - Gizmodo

Plenty of video games invite us to explore outer space
, but few deal with the logistics of getting that done. Enter Mars First Logistics
, a delightfully chill game about building mechanized rover… [+5264 chars]

The physics-based Martian rover simulator rides out of early access, offering tons of creative tools and impeccably chill vibes.

Mars is the ultimate sandbox in 'Mars First Logistics', a physics-based delivery game where you build your own rovers - Space

A group of divers exploring waters near Taiwans Ruifang District made an unexpected encounter with a rarely seen deep-sea creature. Captured on video and shared widely online, the event quickly drew … [+3482 chars]

A rare sighting of a massive creature near Taiwan rekindles ancient myths and sparks scientific inquiry into life from the ocean's hidden depths.

Indiandefencereview.com

Rare 25-Foot Deep-Sea Creature Mysteriously Appears Off Taiwan’s Coast - Indian Defence Review

Magnetic deposits laid down during the Ediacaran Period, 630 million years ago to 541 million years ago, are not inexplicable fluctuations, some researchers argue. Instead, there is a pattern encoded… [+5198 chars]

Moroccan rocks suggest that what had been thought to be wild, random movements of continents was actually Earth's magnetic poles reversing repeatedly.

Strange Patterns In Ancient Rocks Reveal Earth's Tumbling Magnetic Field, Not Speeding Continents - IFLScience

Unistellar is one of the biggest smart telescope companies around right now, offering a range of models that make finding and imaging celestial bodies super easy with their automatic go-to technology… [+1705 chars]

Unistellar is offering 20% off across its entire range of smart telescopes and accessories for the whole month of November, ahead of Black Friday on Nov. 28.

20% off every single Unistellar smart telescope - Space

ABC News

Antarctic glacier retreating at rate 10 times faster than previously measured: Study - ABC News

New archaeological evidence is rewriting the early history of North America. A fresh look at ancient stone tools suggests that the first humans may have arrived far earlierand traveled far differentl… [+4112 chars]

New evidence from ancient stone tools suggests the First Americans may have sailed from Asia over 20,000 years ago, challenging everything we thought we knew about early migration.

20,000-Year-Old Tools Found in the U.S. Rewrite the Origins of the First Americans - Indian Defence Review

Chicken, whether Kentucky fried or simply buttered, is a large part of the human diet. The average American, for instance, eats around 45 kilograms (100 pounds) of chicken every year, according to th… [+3925 chars]

Thanks to ancient people, and a few other factors, we do not consume Kentucky-fried blue tit.

Why Do We Eat Chicken, And Not Birds Like Seagull And Swan? - IFLScience

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