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Bolted to Pioneer 10 is a plaque showing two humans and a cosmic map back to Earth, while the spacecraft itself is now a silent ghost ship drifting toward Aldebaran, a star it will not pass for another two million years. - Space Daily
Bolted to the side of Pioneer 10 is a gold-anodised aluminium plaque, about 152 by 229 millimetres, engraved with the figures of a man and a woman and a set of symbols meant to mark where and when the spacecraft came from. The craft that carries it has been s…
After a crippled seven-year journey Japan's Hayabusa probe limped home in 2010 and burned up in the sky over Australia, but not before releasing the first asteroid samples ever returned to Earth. - Space Daily
Japan’s Hayabusa probe returned to Earth on 13 June 2010, breaking apart in a bright streak over the Woomera Test Range in South Australia. About three hours before that final reentry, it had released a 40-centimetre capsule, which parachuted down into the ou…
Gravity Waves From Super Typhoon Sinlaku - NASA Science (.gov)
Satellites observed striking upper-atmosphere phenomena generated by an intensifying tropical cyclone.
CERN Finds High-Significance Hint of Physics Beyond Standard Model - Ground News
Rare B meson decays measured at the LHC deviate from predictions at four sigma, giving physicists a one-in-16,000 chance of a statistical fluke.
Something Made Earth's Molten Core Reverse Direction In 2010 - Slashdot
ScienceAlert reports: In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth’s outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet’s usual westward flow. This happened in 2010, according to sa…
The Sun is not standing still. It is carrying the entire Solar System around the centre of the Milky Way, and one lap takes roughly 230 million years. The last time we were this far around the galaxy, Earth was in the Triassic Period and the very first dinosaurs wer - Space Daily
The Sun is not fixed in space. It carries the entire Solar System around the centre of the Milky Way, completing one lap in roughly 230 million years. One galactic year ago, Earth was in the Late Triassic, and the first dinosaurs were only just beginning to a…