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Will we know we've found aliens?

There are no set standards for extraterrestrial life, so will scientists even recognize it when they see it?

Salon

Northern Lights set to be visible from Scotland tonight as solar storm hits

PEOPLE in Scotland and northern England are expected to get a show of a lifetime tonight as the Northern Lights are set to appear.

The National (Scotland)

F.D. Flam: The earth is dancing too close to a temperature tipping point

Between this summer’s biblical floods, apocalyptic fires and life-threatening heat domes, people are starting to wonder whether we’ve lurched over some sort of climate tipping point. Climate scientists and ecologists who study tipping points say what we’re seeing are merely extreme events amplified by global warming. But they’ve been warning…

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Extreme weather: the climate crisis in four charts

As much of the northern hemisphere endures blistering heatwaves and parts of Asia are deluged with rain, a number of climate records are being challenged

The Guardian - AU

X-ray auroras illuminated on Mercury

The BepiColumbo mission catalogs solar winds and electron rains dancing across a distant, glowing magnetosphere

Salon

A skyscraper-size asteroid flew closer to Earth than the moon — and scientists didn't notice until 2 days later

A stealthy asteroid the size of a 20-story building hid in the sun's glare before zooming uncomfortably close to Earth on July 13. Scientists didn't notice until July 15.

LiveScience

NASA Prepares To Launch Mission To $10,000 Quadrillion Asteroid

Scientists gear up to study metal-rich space rock that could hold more value than the global economy.

Zenger

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Bizarre 'slow' neutron star challenges our theories about dead stars

Astronomers have observed a 'slow' magnetar releasing bursts of radio waves every 22 minutes. The strange neutron star could change our perception of these extreme stellar corpses.

Space

1st evidence found for 'Trojan planet' worlds occupying same orbit

Astronomers have found the first evidence of a so-called 'Trojan planet,' in the form of a young Jupiter-like world that's being tailed by a cloud of dust twice as massive as Earth's moon.

Space

Spooky X-Ray Aurora Discovered on Mercury

Scientists have known for years that Mercury's crust fluoresces, and now they know why.

Inverse

Neil Armstrong’s Historic Moon Landing Celebrated 52 Years Later

Apollo 11: The Historic Moon Landing that United the World.

Zenger

Weirdly Long-Lived Radio Signal Hints at Undiscovered Astrophysics

The long-lived radio signal moves too slowly to be a pulsar, and may be a new form of white dwarf never before seen — but that's not a given.

Inverse

Scorching days, searing nights: Not even Death Valley is immune to climate change

It was 10 p.m. and 116 degrees as a brutal wind whipped through the darkness.

Los Angeles Times

Rocket Lab recovers Electron booster from Pacific Ocean after satellite launch (photos)

Rocket Lab pulled one of its boosters from the sea after a launch on Monday (July 17), taking another step toward rocket reuse.

Space

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First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history

We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact.

Space

Here's how ISS astronauts jettison old space station hardware (video)

With a thumbs-up, NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg showed how space station astronauts use a Canadian robotic arm to safely throw away old space station equipment.

The Guardian - US

This heatwave is a climate omen. But it’s not too late to change course

The warming of the planet – including the most up-to-date data for 2023 – is entirely consistent with what climate modelers warned decades ago

Space

Scientists discover 'glitched' neutron star that obliterated an asteroid, then fired off a brilliant explosion

A powerful magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, "glitched" when it destroyed an asteroid, causing it to blast out a fast radio burst and change rotational speed.

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The Guardian - US

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come

James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’

Tribune News Service

Review: Rocketing to another planet, a group tries to save Earth in 'The Deep Sky'

FICTION: Yume Kitasei's sci-fi novel depicts our planet on the verge of collapse.

The Independent UK

What is driving the record-breaking global heatwaves across three continents?

Experts say the weather extremes being experienced across the globe are ‘exactly what climate scientists have been predicting’

Space

Fire-in-space experiment could soon make its way to the moon

The last of six planned fire-in-space experiments will soon launch toward the International Space Station. Now there's a proposal to bring a similar effort to the surface of the moon.

Inverse

Why You (Probably) Don’t Need to Worry About a Meteorite Hitting You

A mysterious object, suspected of being a meteorite, ricocheted off a roof and hit a French woman in the ribs. The odds of that happening are small.

The Conversation

Did the Anthropocene start in 1950 – or much earlier? Here's why debate over our world-changing impact matters

It made world news last week when a small lake in Canada was chosen as the “Golden Spike” – the location where the emergence of the Anthropocene is most clear. The Anthropocene is the proposed new geological epoch defined by humanity’s impact on the planet.

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The Marvels' Brie Larson Explains Why Carol Danvers Has Stayed Away From Earth Post-Endgame

Following Avengers: Endgame, Carol Danvers headed back into space, and Brie Larson explained her her character hasn’t been hanging around Earth.

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