The Eliasberg 1913 Liberty Head nickel up for auction in Philadelphia fetched almost $5 million from an anonymous buyer Wednesday. The coin is named for financier Louis E. Eliasberg, who bought the coin in 1948, and amassed one of the greatest coin collections in U.S. history. (Stack’s Bowers Galleries via AP) An extremely rare nickel […] More
Matthew Zuniga said the catch was “mind-blowing.” (Matthew Zuniga) A Texas man made the catch of a lifetime Saturday after reeling in a 12-foot tiger shark near South Padre Island. Matthew Zuniga, of Harlingen, caught the shark after 1 a.m. on Saturday, roughly two hours after hooking the sea creature. GRAPHIC IMAGES: SHARK ATTACKS SEAL, […] More
Smoke from the wildfires raging across the West is reaching as far as the East Coast, according to the National Weather Service. A team of scientists from five universities and a handful of federally funded agencies are flying a specially equipped plane through the plumes to do the most extensive anaylsis of wildfire smoke ever. […] More
There’s a “hydrogen wall” at the edge of our solar system, and NASA scientists think their New Horizons spacecraft can see it. That hydrogen wall is the outer boundary of our home system, the place where our sun’s bubble of solar wind ends and where a mass of interstellar matter too small to bust through that […] More
CAPE CANAVERAL – NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force station on its historic mission to the Sun. The probe lit up the night sky as it blasted off at 3:31 a.m. EDT. “It was a really clean launch,” Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, told reporters. […] More
The eagerly anticipated launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was scrubbed early Saturday when delays on the launch pad ate away at the spacecraft’s 65-minute window to blast off to the sun. Crowds had gathered at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see the Solar Probe embark on its incredible journey from nearby Cape Canaveral […] More
How Jupiter gets its stripes has been one of astronomy’s most enticing mysteries. They are straight. They are clearly defined. They have different colors. Now, thanks to the Juno space probe currently in orbit around the gas giant, we’ve been able to infer what’s going on beneath them. Researchers from Australia and the United States […] More
Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe in front of the Sun (Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben) CAPE CANAVERAL – NASA is set to launch its Parker Solar Probe Saturday on a historic mission that will “touch the Sun.” The solar probe will be the first spacecraft to fly through the Sun’s corona, the outermost part […] More
Red Tide killing sea life, causing sickness along Gulf Coast The Sunshine State’s southwest coast has been ravaged by an unrelenting Red Tide this summer-thousands of dead fish have clogged waterways, while manatees, sea turtles and even a whale shark have washed ashore after falling victim to the dangerous water conditions. LITTLE GASPARILLA ISLAND, Fla. […] More
In 1966, over 300 children and staff from a Melbourne school reportedly witnessed multiple UFOs silently flying through the sky before landing in a nearby field. It is the largest mass UFO sighting in Australia, yet hardly anything was reported on it at the time. Over the years, there have been differing reports about […] More
Artist’s conception of SIMP J01365663+0933473, an object with 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter, but a magnetic field 200 times more powerful than Jupiter’s. This object is 20 light-years from Earth. Credit: Caltech/Chuck Carter; NRAO/AUI/NSF A massive glowing “rogue” planetary-mass object has been discovered, surprising scientists with not only its size, but also the fact […] More
A Maryland woman was likely bitten by a moray eel off the coast of Hawaii on July 29, 2018. (iStock) Kristen Porter was relaxing on a floatie at Kuhio Beach in Waikiki, Hawaii last week when she felt something sharp pierce her foot. Wincing in pain, Porter pulled her foot out of the water and […] More