Barry O'ConnorBBC News NI
Dr Mike Simms is curator of geology at National Museums Northern Ireland
Finding dinosaur fossils on the island of Ireland is harder than finding a "needle in a haystack",… [+3596 chars]

Ireland is an unlikely candidate for dinosaur fossils but two were found on Islandmagee beach, two decades apart.

BBC News

Fossils: Dinosaur discoveries in Ireland are a 'needle in a haystack' - BBC

Stacked images of 3I/ATLAS on November 8, 2025. The sunward direction (opposite to the arrow) is pointing towards the bottom left corner. (Credit: M. Jäger, G. Rhemann, E. Prosperi)
A stacked deep i… [+6530 chars]

Back in July and August of 2025, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was inferred to rotate with a period of 16.16 (+/-0.01) hours (as derived…

Medium

The 12th Anomaly of 3I/ATLAS: Orientation of the Jets is Not Smeared by Rotation - Avi Loeb – Medium

The Boston Globe

Leonids peak this weekend, expected to light up the night sky - The Boston Globe

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket had a very big day on Thursday (Nov. 13), and a new video lets us all relive part of it.
New Glenn
 launched for the second time ever on Thursday afternoon, … [+2395 chars]

Relive a big part of New Glenn's big day.

Space.com

Watch Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket ace its epic landing on a ship at sea (video) - Space

Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest of the universe is on a downward trajectory, too.
In new research that gauged several vital signs of… [+2923 chars]

An analysis of millions of galaxies found that the universe is barreling towards what is literally a much darker future.

Futurism

Scientists Discover That the Universe Is Getting Worse and Worse - Futurism

Look into the night sky, and it might seem like space is a vast expanse of darkness
. But are any regions darker than others? What's the darkest place in the solar system
 and, on a grander scale, … [+4429 chars]

Space looks very dark from Earth. But does the solar system, and the universe for that matter, have an area that's the darkest of all?

Live Science

What's the darkest place in the solar system? What about the universe? - Live Science

SpaceX pulled off a doubleheader overnight on Friday (Nov. 14), launching two rockets less than four hours apart from Florida's Space Coast.
The action started Friday at 10:08 p.m. EST (0308 GMT on … [+1897 chars]

SpaceX has now launched 146 Falcon 9 missions in 2025.

SpaceX launches 2 rockets less than 4 hours apart from Florida's Space Coast - Space

It was just after sunrise when Suzette Hall, founder of Logans Legacy 29, and volunteer Mary Nakiso pulled up to a local car dealership. The business was still closed when they arrived, which helped … [+3238 chars]

Thedodo.com

Stray Dog Follows Customers Around Car Dealership, Hoping To Find A Family - The Dodo

Astronomers have spotted auroras on a planet-sized object called SIMP 0136, which is currently roaming around our Milky Way galaxy without a star. 
The auroral activity seems to be warming the objec… [+5830 chars]

The Webb Telescope has issued a weather for a rogue planet named SIMP 0136. The forecast is auroras, sand clouds, and temperature changes.

Earth.com

Webb Telescope issues the first weather report for an exoplanet - Earth.com

Scientists have sequenced the oldest-ever RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth named Yuka, whose remains were found frozen on a bluff in northeastern Siberia. The discovery contradicts the preva… [+187 chars]

Scientists sequence the oldest RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth.

The Washington Post

How a frozen mammoth named Yuka is redefining the study of ancient RNA - The Washington Post

If you were to quickly look at the image below, what would you think it was? At first glance, it seems to be a straightforward picture of a spider sitting on a web.
George Olah
But if you look more… [+2310 chars]

Scientists Discover Tiny Spiders Who Build Big 'Decoys' For This Clever Reason - The Dodo

When intrepid entrepreneurs discover that there are trillions of dollars' worth of ore just hurtling through space, they see an opportunity. There's only one problem. How do you move these high-price… [+1281 chars]

TransAstra already has a dozen ground-based telescopes searching for mining-suitable asteroids.

Jalopnik

Catching Asteroids In A Bag Could Be The New Panning For Gold - Jalopnik

The James Webb Space Telescope didn't need much time to show us how wrong we were about the early Universe. Mere weeks after it began observations, it found galaxies in the very early Universe that w… [+5747 chars]

The JWST surprised when it detected very early galaxies that were extremely luminous. This suggested that they were more massive than researchers thought they could be. Not enough time had passed for them to grow so large. New research has an explanation.

Universe Today

An Explanation For The JWST's Puzzling Early Galaxies - Universe Today

Few cross-country race tires have as much history as the Continental Dubnital, the recently renamed, thoroughly reworked, and modernized version of the long-loved Race King line. This is a tire that … [+5405 chars]

Faster than an Aspen or Peyote? Maybe. But the Dubnitals require attention to detail during setup.

Escapecollective.com

Review: Continental Dubnital Rapid 2.4 - Escape Collective

A recently discovered comet known as the "golden comet" has dramatically broken apart into three pieces after a close encounter with the sun, according to new photos captured by astronomers in Italy.… [+1840 chars]

Comet C/2025 ATLAS, discovered by NASA’s ATLAS telescope network — the same system that spotted the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS — has broken apart into three...

Yahoo Entertainment

See the ‘Golden Comet' C/2025 ATLAS shatter into 3 pieces after close encounter with the sun - Yahoo

Astronomers have discovered that the solar system may be moving through the cosmos over three times faster than was previously theorized. The discovery could have implications for the standard model … [+2493 chars]

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure of the universe."

The solar system may be racing through space 3 times faster than expected. Is the standard model of cosmology wrong? - Space

A carbon-capture method inspired by the simple fizz of a soda bottle could dramatically cut the cost of trapping emissions from some of the worlds biggest polluters.
Researchers have developed a new… [+3027 chars]

New PICC tech uses water and pressure, like soda fizz,to capture 99% of CO₂ at far lower cost than chemical systems.

Interesting Engineering

New pressure method captures 99% of CO2 for just $26 per ton - Interesting Engineering

An astrophotographer has captured a spectacular shot of a falling skydiver perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun, making it seem like the airborne adventurer is tumbling through the vac… [+2926 chars]

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed "The Fall of Icarus," required meticulous planning to pull off.

Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface - Live Science

Some species capture the internet's attention more than most, from feisty pygmy hippos to giant penguin chicks. One group of spiders, however, has mesmerized those on the World Wide Web with their hy… [+2517 chars]

Before 2011 the world barely knew peacock spiders existed, now we can't get enough.

IFLScience

Meet The Peacock Spiders: Secretive, Small But Oh So Special - IFLScience

A vast weak spot in Earths magnetic field is quietly expanding over the South Atlantic Ocean. Scientists say the phenomenon, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, could expose satellites and astronaut… [+3840 chars]

A massive weak spot is spreading through Earth’s magnetic field, and scientists are alarmed.