Tourists of time all know one rule: never change the past. Whether it's preventing your own conception or handing the blueprints to a time machine to a younger version of yourself, generating a parad… [+4350 chars]

Tourists of time all know one rule: never change the past.

ScienceAlert

Physicist May Have Solved The Grandfather of All Time-Travel Paradoxes - ScienceAlert

A very rare planetary alignment on Tuesday, Jan. 21 and Saturday, Jan. 25 is being promoted online. Its not specific to those dates, but six planets are now in the night sky, four of them visible to … [+3157 chars]

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are all  visible after sunset, but social media claims about it being a rare "planetary alignment" are not correct. Here's how to see it.

Forbes

Stunning ‘Planet Parade’ Visible In Night Sky This Week — How To See It - Forbes

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a planet so extraordinary it has defied all existing classifications. The planet, GJ 1214 b, is located a mere 48 light-years aw… [+5230 chars]

The James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a planet that defies all expectations—GJ 1214 b, a carbon-drenched "super-Venus" unlike anything in our solar system. But what secrets lie hidden within its dense atmosphere? And how does it fit into the grand story…

The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

Astronomers Use James Webb to Unveil a Planet Unlike Any Other in Our Solar System - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

File photo a a Falcon 9 prior to a Starlink satellite delivery mission. Image: SpaceX.
SpaceX is preparing to launch its next batch of Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Satur… [+2740 chars]

Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from California - Spaceflight Now

On Episode 144 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look a pair of private moon missions by Firefly Aerospace and ispace that lifted off this week and so much more.
2025 is the yea… [+1972 chars]

2025 will be a big year for moon missions.

Space.com

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 144 — The great lunar armada - Space.com

Scientists have pieced together evidence that ancient marine reptiles once swam in what is now central Colombia, and these creatures appear to have been more formidable predators than todays mighty k… [+5217 chars]

Scientists discovered ancient marine reptiles that reached unprecedented trophic levels. These creatures exceeded today’s top predators.

Earth.com

Prehistoric ocean monsters would have eaten killer whales as snacks - Earth.com

We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of our lives.
And to think that the ground is ever-changing, well, that's a bit unsettling. But the … [+2797 chars]

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared.

Satellites watch 'ghost island' solidify in the Caspian Sea before disappearing (photos) - Space.com

Something pretty extraordinary happened over Spain on a Saturday night recently. What folks first thought was a meteorite turned out to be a fragment from a comet. This caught the eyes of scientists … [+2899 chars]

A fragment from a comet recently lit up the Spanish sky, dazzling onlookers and sparking scientific intrigue. Discover what this rare celestial event reveals about our solar system and its potential threats. Don’t miss the details!

It wasn't a meteorite: The European Space Agency identified the object that flew over Spain on Saturday - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by light pollution due to a planned renewable energy project.
The U.S. energy c… [+6451 chars]

"These two things cannot be in the same place. It's as simple as that."

World's largest telescope threatened by light pollution from renewable energy project - Space.com

This week, scientists with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reported that a key current, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, has not declined over the last 60 years. An international t… [+4840 chars]

This week, scientists with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reported that a key current, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, has not declined over the last 60 years. An international team of geneticists found evidence of Iron Age social and pol…

Phys.Org

Saturday citations: New cretaceous predator just dropped; neutron star mountains; a cool 'living seawall' - Phys.org

Ice that is melting around the Earths poles is sending water and mass toward the equator and is working to slow the planet's rotation, though there are other, countervailing forces that are making it… [+5930 chars]

New research suggests that melting polar ice due to global warming is moving water toward the equator and slowing the Earth’s rotation.

San Francisco Chronicle

Climate change is literally impacting time itself - San Francisco Chronicle

A doorbell camera on a Canadian home captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth as it crashed into a couple's walkway.
When Laura Kelly and her partner returned home after an evenin… [+1823 chars]

A doorbell camera on a Canadian home captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth as it crashed into a couple's walkway.

Watch doorbell camera capture rare meteorite strike in Canada - Phys.org

They measured the correlations between the different positions (and spins) of the atoms and found antipair correlations, i.e., the existence of atoms in opposite states.
Antipair correlations, the h… [+689 chars]

Researchers experimentally demonstrated counterflow superfluidity, a quantum state where atoms flow in opposite directions simultaneously.

Interesting Engineering

Chinese scientists discover a new peculiar quantum state of matter - Interesting Engineering

What hidden realms lie beneath our feet? In this week's science news, geologists uncovered a series of "sunken worlds" hidden deep within Earth's mantle
 that they say shouldn't be there. The buried… [+6238 chars]

Jan. 18, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Live Science

Science news this week: Sunken worlds and 'kidney beans' on Mars - Livescience.com

Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. And it is getting closer, as the two will merge in several billion years. It has been an object of study for centuries, but we have never seen … [+2506 chars]

And it revealed that this close-by galaxy is a complete train wreck!

IFLScience

2.5-Billion-Pixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Worth The Decade Of Hubble Observations - IFLScience

Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen, have announced plans to study the deepest parts of Earth's oceans in order to understand the strange phenomenon.
T… [+4855 chars]

Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets.

BBC News

'Dark oxygen' mission takes aim at other worlds - BBC.com

As fires continue to devastate Los Angeles, countless people and animals have been injured and left without homes. But among all the destruction, there have been glimmers of hope.
Joanne, a resident… [+1603 chars]

A woman went out of her way to rescue an animal who'd gotten severely burned in the LA wildfires.

Thedodo.com

Woman Sees Bright Yellow Eyes Peering Out Of Home's Wreckage - The Dodo

Picturing how our species might appear in the far future often invites wild speculation over stand-out features such as height, brain size, and skin complexion. Yet subtle shifts in our anatomy today… [+4156 chars]

Picturing how our species might appear in the far future often invites wild speculation over stand-out features such as height, brain size, and skin complexion. Yet subtle shifts in our anatomy today demonstrate how unpredictable evolution can be.

Human Arms Keep Growing an Extra Artery, And Here's Why - ScienceAlert

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers.
Lurking beneath the massive, 12 kilometer-thick slab of frozen water lies an active volcanic rift, seething away in the … [+3652 chars]

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers.