A massive space rock that once made its way onto a space agency’s warning list for potentially dangerous objects is scheduled to pass by the Earth this Thursday, September 18, 2025.
The space object, officially designated Asteroid 2025 FA22, is expected to make its near approach at 3:41 AM Eastern Time in the U.S., bringing it a little more than twice as far from Earth as the Moon. At no time during its pass will the object represent a

The data from the NASA and ESA X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has discovered unexpected disparities between two different types of cosmic winds, challenging how scientists believed them to form and change.
Wind originating in the disk surrounding the neutron star GX13+1 was significantly denser than that generated from material around a supermassive black hole. The resulting hypothesis proposed in the new research may have significant ramifications for how we understand the forces shaping galaxies.
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New NASA findings indicate that potentially dangerous solar storm activity has been ramping up over the last two decades, suggesting a longer-term deviation beyond the known 11-year solar cycles.
Before 2008, data collected since the 1980s indicated a notable lull in solar activity, which has since reversed itself. Solar flares, solar storms, and coronal mass ejections are examples of the types of increasing disturbances that could have detrimental effects for us on Earth.
Now, a new paper presented

For decades, scientists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter, the invisible substance believed to account for roughly 85 percent of the mass in our universe.
Most searches have focused on particles with energies high enough to trigger detectable reactions. However, what if dark matter is far lighter than previously assumed, slipping quietly through detectors designed to catch much heavier prey?
A new experiment by researchers from the University of Zurich, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

This week in news from The Debrief, researchers bombarded mouse neurons with lasers to uncover how the brain generates illusions, offering fresh insights into schizophrenia. Elsewhere, a study suggests that if alien civilizations exist in the Milky Way, they are likely exceedingly rare and far older than humanity. Meanwhile, in orbit, U.S. Navy scientists have trained a zero-gravity Astrobee robot to fly autonomously without human input, marking a leap forward in space robotics. And in South Africa, cannabis waste has