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On September 28, 1969, a fireball broke apart over Murchison, Victoria, and dropped black stones across roughly 35 square kilometres of Australian farmland. Museums Victoria records about 100 kilograms of the meteorite recovered, with more than 80 kilograms now held in scientific collections. One piece punched through a roof and landed in hay. The town had just been handed a rock that carried dust older than the Sun. In 2020, Philipp Heck, a curator at the Field Museum and an associate professor at the University of Chicago, led a team that dated forty large presolar silicon carbide grains from that…
On 15 September 2017, Cassini stopped talking. The spacecraft had spent its final minutes plunging into Saturn’s upper atmosphere at roughly 70,000 miles per hour, firing its thrusters at full strength to keep its antenna pointed at Earth while the gas giant tore it apart. The engineers who built it, and the team who flew it in orbit around Saturn, had spent the better part of two years planning this specific death. They called it the Grand Finale. The reason it had to happen this way had almost nothing to do with the rings of Saturn and almost everything to…
The hottest thing in the U.S. this summer isn’t the weather — it’s the rip-roaring stock market.
From 6 billion kilometres out, Voyager 1 looked back in 1990 and found Earth reduced to a pale blue speck smaller than one pixel, a shot Carl Sagan had spent years fighting for In 1990, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft turned its cameras back toward the inner solar system and photographed Earth from about six billion kilometres away. The planet registered as a point of light less than a single pixel across, sitting inside a band of scattered sunlight. NASA later called the frame the Pale Blue Dot. The image was taken on 14 February 1990, as part of a sequence…
Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. May 26, 2026 Minutes of the Board’s discount rate meeting on April 20 and 29, 2026 For release at 2:00 p.m. EDT The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes from its recent meetings to review and determine the discount rates provided to depository institutions through the discount window. Today’s minutes cover the Board meetings that occurred on April 20 and 29, 2026. The Board’s process for setting the discount rate is…
One content creator says this 18-year savings plan will make her baby extremely wealthy. CPAs think it’s a great idea for certain families.
Brent crude jumps 4% as US strikes in Iran fuel Hormuz shipping fears
Perseverance landed in Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, in a basin that scientists believe held a lake roughly 3.5 billion years ago, and almost everything the rover has photographed since then is haunted by water that is no longer there. The crater floor is dry. The river that fed it is gone. What remains are rocks arranged in ways that look, to a human eye scrolling through raw image downloads from JPL, slightly too neat to be random. That tension is the central puzzle of the mission: ancient Martian water sorted rocks with such consistency that the results trick…
Student loan rates have held steady while lenders have positioned themselves with their low headline rates leading into peak student loan season. As of May 26, 2026, private student loan lenders are offering fixed rates as low as 2.54% APR and variable rates starting as low as 3.03% APR, depending on credit profile, degree program, and repayment term.Abe℠ Student Loans currently offers the lowest fixed rate loan available. Student Choice is currently offering the lowest variable rate student loan available.While federal student loan rates are set annually by Congress, private lenders continue to adjust based on market conditions and Treasury…
“I’ve found that acting ‘normal’ means others treat me like one of the group.”