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A 'Great Wave' is rippling through our galaxy, pushing thousands of stars out of place

A giant 'wave' is rippling through the Milky Way, pushing thousands of stars across the galaxy, and scientists don't know what triggered it.

Live Science
Zooming out from Earth to the Observable Universe

YouTube
Artemis II to the Moon: Launch to Splashdown (NASA Mission Animation)

YouTube
Super-Earth discovery reveals an exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining life

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, exoplanetologists have begun to take an interest in their characteristics, with the aim of finding life elsewhere in the universe. This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team including the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the NCCR PlanetS.

Phys.org
Doomsday clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, closest ever to "global catastrophe"

The decades-old international symbol is meant to be a metaphor showing how close humanity is to catastrophe.

CBS News
There is subtle (some of it not that subtle), creeping and steady but marked deterioration in the overall quality of the content found on the Internet today (not just referring to X). Spells trouble for societies' future
Retired Army general declares Musk a ‘national security risk’ in brutal NYT op-ed

Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré highlighted the tech billionaire’s history of appeasing and praising the Chinese Communist Party and his multiple business deals with it

The Independent
New forms of life discovered inside human bodies

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and microscopic life.

Earth.com
Astronomers discover a 'hot Neptune' in a tight orbit (article by Grace Jacobs Corban, NASA) https://phys.org/news/2024-11-astronomers-hot-neptune-tight-orbit.html
Astronomers discover a 'hot Neptune' in a tight orbit

A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as these form.

Phys.org