Rust News

Summer stargazing goes out with a bang in August - Gothamist

The State Parks With Dinosaur Tracks - WorldAtlas

Dinosaur-killing asteroid may have caused firestorms 17 times hotter than the thermal limit lethal to humans - space.com

The Strange Origin of The Human Eye May Trace Back to a 600-Million-Year-Old 'Cyclops' - ScienceAlert

Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time - WIRED

Saturn's moon Titan has rivers of liquid methane longer than the Nile's tributaries, but a 2025 Brown University study found that only 1.3% of those rivers form deltas — on Earth, nearly every river does, and nobody yet knows why Titan's don't - spacedaily.com

Europa is smaller than Earth's Moon, yet the ocean locked beneath its ice contains more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined — kept from freezing not by sunlight, but by Jupiter's gravity squeezing the moon like a slow, endless fist - spacedaily.com

The James Webb telescope keeps finding supermassive black holes in the infant universe so large that a few appear to outweigh every star in their host galaxy combined, a ratio the standard picture of how these giants grew cannot easily explain - Space Daily

Scientists May Have Finally Solved The Sun's Missing Silver Mystery - ScienceAlert

Mini crossword - The Economist

The avocado's sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years - Boing Boing

Oak trees may have an unexpected advantage as CO2 rises - Earth.com

Sending repurposed Mars rover to the moon could cost more than $1 billion - SpaceNews

Newly discovered mechanism protects DNA during cell division - Phys.org

Lichen-like life 600 million years ago may push back origins of fungal-algal partnerships - Phys.org

Northern Lights Forecast Tonight: Up To 9 States Could See The Aurora Borealis - Forbes

We thought a small town outside the suburbs would be perfect for our family — but ended up in a walkable city instead - Business Insider

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'We are not giving up yet': Private mission to rescue NASA's Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it - Live Science

Japan probe made closest-ever asteroid flyby: space agency - Phys.org

A rocky exoplanet may be a formidable candidate for extraterrestrial life - CNN