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It’s a day ending in y and there’s a new image of comet 3I\/ATLAS and more unfounded speculation about why it’s an alien probe circulating online. We’re looking into the image today. In the meantime, here’s some of our recent comet coverage, in case you missed it. The interstellar visitor has just become visible from Earth again<\/a> after zooming behind the sun.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udea8 3I\/ATLAS reportedly captured by R. Naves Observatory in Begur, Spain \u2014 November 5, 2025.If this image is real\u2026 what are we really looking at? Are we doomed? #3IATLAS pic.twitter.com\/Gy096UqjMhNovember 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n 2025-11-06T12:15:59.165Z Gooood morning science fans! Patrick Pester<\/a>, Live Science’s Trending News Writer, back to kick off another day of our live blog coverage. The largest supermoon of the year rose last night, so I thought I’d start by sharing a nice image story. BBC News has a roundup of some stunning lunar snaps taken last night. The November full moon is nicknamed the “Beaver Moon<\/a>” in North America because beavers in the northeastern U.S. and Canada build their winter dams in the light of the full moon this time of year.<\/p>\n Check out BBC News’ moon gallery here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n The Beaver Supermoon rose last night, pictured here in Turkey. (Image credit: Huseyin Demirci\/Anadolu via Getty Images) Patrick Pester<\/p>\n Trending News Writer<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T21:40:25.417Z We’re signing off now, but we’ll be back in the morning with more science news. Thanks for joining us on the Live Science news blog’s first day. Here’s to many more!<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T21:37:18.103Z \n A series of light wavelength observations for WASP-18B, the first alien planet to ever be 3D-mapped. (Image credit: Challener et al. \/ Nature Astronomy)<\/p>\n How do you create the first-ever map of a planet that\u2019s 400 light-years away? You use a really good telescope, let\u2019s say the James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>, that\u2019s so sensitive it can measure the tiny changes in light reflected across a planet\u2019s surface as it’s eclipsed by its star. Then you piece all of those changes together until you create a complete 3D representation.<\/p>\n If it sounds fantastical, it very much is. But scientists actually did it and you can read all about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T20:12:22.751Z \n Archaeologists found a cross-shaped area at the Aguada F\u00e9nix site in Mexico.\u00a0 (Image credit: Takeshi Inomata)<\/p>\n Or perhaps we should hold off on the AI creativity thinkpieces until we find a chatbot that can do this. Archaeologists have published a new study suggesting that Aguada F\u00e9nix, a 3,000-year-old site in what is now southeastern Mexico, was actually a gigantic representation of the Maya people\u2019s cosmology<\/a>.<\/p>\n Working together to build the 5.6 by 4.7 mile (9 by 7.5 kilometer) site may have been a celebrated communal activity, the researchers suggest, similar to the construction of Stonehenge.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T19:48:54.803Z \n A robot using a typewriter. (Image credit: Getty Images\/Moor Studio)<\/p>\n Us humans are pretty proud of our creativity \u2014 for centuries we\u2019ve cited our ability to make paintings, compose symphonies<\/a>, and write poetry (or nowadays really, really good posts) as the key traits that distinguish us from other animals.<\/p>\n But what happens to that self-applied definition if it turns out that artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) can do all of those things too? And will that day ever come, or are the machines simply parasitizing our creativity? This fascinating Nature news feature sought answers<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T18:55:07.458Z \n The Shenzhou-20 crew \u2014 Wang Jie (left), Chen Zhongrui (center), and Chen Dong (right) \u2014 has been stranded on board the Tiangong space station after their return capsule was hit with space junk. (Image credit: PEDRO PARDO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Harry Baker<\/a>, one of Live Science’s Senior Staff Writers, has just penned (okay, typed) a story about three Chinese astronauts (taikonauts) who are now stranded in space<\/a> after their return capsule was struck. The culprit? A suspected piece of “space junk” that hit the capsule just hours before its planned departure earlier today, forcing taikonauts Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Don to extend their time aboard China’s Tiangong space station.<\/p>\n Officials are still investigating exactly what happened. It’s currently unclear how much damage the debris caused or when the three taikonauts, who have been living on the space station since April 24, will be able to return home.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T18:29:05.828Z Here’s a roundup of the stories Live Science has published today (so far).<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T17:48:43.805Z \n People cooling off under high sun at a cooling pad in Toronto. (Image credit: Steve Russell\/Toronto Star via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Hi everyone, it’s Patrick<\/a>, Trending News Writer, here taking the blog baton from Ben. One of the big science stories circulating as of yesterday (Nov. 4) is that the United Nations has announced Earth will speed past humanity’s 1.5\u2009degrees Celsius<\/a> (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) climate change target.<\/p>\n The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report found that global average temperatures will likely exceed 1.5 C of warming before 2035, and reiterated calls to slash greenhouse gas<\/a> emissions, which trap heat in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n In 2015, world leaders signed the Paris Agreement<\/a>, an international treaty that promised to limit global warming to preferably below 1.5 C and well below 2 C (3.6 F). The findings of the latest report highlight world leaders’ failure to address climate change, but its findings are not unexpected. Ben covered a report in June that found greenhouse gas emissions could exhaust Earth’s “carbon budget”<\/a> in as little as three years, while last month, I covered a similarly grim report documenting record carbon dioxide (CO2) increases<\/a>.<\/p>\n The new report comes as many world leaders prepare for the U.N.’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil next week \u2014 for reference the Paris Agreement was adopted at COP21. Climate scientists often stress that it’s not too late to reverse course and prevent further warming.<\/p>\n Patrick Pester<\/p>\n Trending News Writer<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T16:24:29.174Z \n A photo of C\/2025 K1 (ATLAS) snapped by astrophotographer\u00a0Dan Bartlett. (Image credit: Dan Bartlett)<\/p>\n We’ve been so engrossed in coverage of 3I\/ATLAS that we nearly failed to note another comet currently in Earth’s skies. This one is called C\/2025 K1 (ATLAS), or the “other ATLAS,” and it survived a near-doomed passage around the sun to emerge as a beautiful golden ribbon<\/a>.<\/p>\n The exact reason for this comet\u2019s gold coloration is unclear, but astronomers think it could have something to do with its relatively low ratio of gas to dust. Studying it could give scientists some more clues into the conditions in the Oort cloud, the mysterious shell of icy objects at the edge of our solar system<\/a> where the comet was born.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T15:08:33.335Z \n An artist’s impression of a black hole in starry outer space. (Image credit: NASA Goddard)<\/p>\n Ever wondered what it would feel like to get swallowed up inside the crushing gravity of a black hole?<\/p>\n Yeah, I sometimes have bad days too, but that\u2019s rather beside the point for this fascinating excerpt<\/a> from science writer and physicist Jonas Enander\u2019s new book “Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth,<\/a>” which takes us step-by-step through the gory yet fascinating ordeal.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T14:59:17.165Z \n Isaacman testifying during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on April 9, 2025 (Image credit: Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n For all those who haven’t left for good because of the spiders, let’s return to space \u2014 well, space policy \u2014 with news that President Trump has renominated Jared Isaacman<\/a> as the new NASA chief.<\/p>\n Isaacman, a billionaire and key Elon Musk<\/a> ally, has been setting Washington abuzz<\/a> all week with a leaked memo<\/a> that outlines plans to outsource some of NASA\u2019s missions and treat the agency like “more of a business,” Politico reports. Trump initially put Isaacman\u2019s name forward to lead the agency in December 2024, but his nomination was abruptly pulled during a public feud with Musk<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T12:41:14.667Z Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that discovered a spider “megacity”<\/a> \u2014 containing over 111,000 arachnids forming a web that may be the largest ever found.<\/p>\n If you didn’t get enough chills and thrills from the Halloween weekend, take a peek at this video of one researcher gently pressing on the spongy web with his bare hand. I’ll keep my desk job, thanks.<\/p>\n 2025-11-05T12:18:57.596Z \n Comet 3I\/ATLAS as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on July 21, 2025 (Image credit: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI))<\/p>\n Good morning, science fans. Ben Turner<\/a>, Live Science’s Acting Trending News Editor, here to smash a big bottle of champagne (or in my case a mug of coffee dregs) on the bow of this blog.<\/p>\n Leading our coverage this morning, as they have been all week, are updates on Comet 3I\/ATLAS<\/a>, the fascinating third-ever interstellar visitor to our solar system being tracked by astronomers as it peeks out from behind our sun<\/a>. The comet, which is 7 miles (11 kilometers) wide and traveling at 130,000 mph (210,000 km\/h), has rapidly brightened as it neared our sun<\/a>, changing colors three times<\/a> as it sheds its highly-irradiated coma<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before you ask, no, it’s almost certainly not an alien spaceship<\/a>. But that doesn\u2019t mean the more than 7 billion-year-old object doesn’t have a wealth of secrets to offer us about its distant home star system. We’re working on a trail of exciting updates to this story, so keep comet-ing back.<\/p>\n Social Links Navigation<\/p>\n <\/a>Acting Trending News Editor<\/p>\n 2025-11-03T10:27:41.104Z At Live Science we’re a passionate bunch who love reading the latest research and how new discoveries are changing the world around us. We’re also lucky enough to write and report on it every day.<\/p>\n But we are just a small bunch of humans<\/a>, and to paraphrase the late, great Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” science is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is.<\/p>\n While we cover the most important or interesting topics of the day, there is no way we can report on it all, not even using AI (and we are very clear about how we use it<\/a>. TL;DR \u2014 we don’t).<\/p>\n So rather than letting good news pass both you and us by, why not share it in one place? That way you can let our experienced journalists filter through the noise and bring you the latest science news that matters, wherever it comes from, often with their own spin on things.<\/p>\n Obviously you’ll read the best of Live Science here as soon as it’s published, but that will sit alongside everything else that matters: Whether it’s a scientist voicing their thoughts on a controversial study, another publication’s insight into how health research is being impacted by government policy, or a roundup of the latest science news from across the web.<\/p>\n So remember to stay curious and check back every day for good science.<\/p>\n Social Links Navigation<\/p>\n
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