Sam Miller

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Packed With Alcohol — Indicating That It Formed Beyond Our Solar System 

Comet 3I/ATLAS is making headlines again, this time for its chemistry. New observations show that the interstellar visitor contains an unusually large amount of methanol, a molecule that rarely appears in comets in our Solar System in such high concentrations. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, astronomers measured methanol in the comet’s…

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Why the world’s militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink

An illustration showing some of Starlink’s 10,000 satellites xnk/Shutterstock Starlink’s satellite constellation provides a reliable internet connection to almost anywhere on Earth, conferring an advantage on the modern battlefield. But it is also run by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, presenting a risk to militaries that could easily find themselves cut off. So, now countries are…

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