Yesterday the Sun released a huge solar flare, and it’s heading toward Earth! It’s nothing to worry about since it’s nowhere near …
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This artist’s impression of a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star shows a swirling “pancake” of hot gas and dust from which …
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We’ve known the Universe is expanding for a long time. The first solid paper demonstrating cosmic expansion was published by Edwin Hubble …
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2-billion-year-old rock could help understand very early life on Earth and the hunt for evidence of life on Mars
by debarjunby debarjunMicrobial cells stained green: This picture shows many tiny cells in which DNA is abundantly included inside the cells. First, the microbial …
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Illustration of the global coronal magnetic field as the sun rotates. The background is the solar corona observed in extreme-ultraviolet waveband, with …
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Traces of antimatter in cosmic rays reopen the search for ‘WIMPs’ as dark matter
by debarjunby debarjunThe image shows the predicted flux of antihelium-3 produced from dark matter (WIMPs) that annihilate producing these antinuclei. Each color represents the …
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Physical infrastructure on the Moon will be critical to any long-term human presence there as both America and China gear up for …
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NASA’s laser comms demo makes deep space record, completes first phase
by debarjunby debarjunNASA’s Psyche spacecraft is depicted receiving a laser signal from the Deep Space Optical Communications uplink ground station at JPL’s Table Mountain …
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It’s not long before a conversation about space travel is likely to turn to the impact on the human body. Our bodies …
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X-rays advance understanding of Earth’s core-mantle boundary and super-Earth magma oceans
by debarjunby debarjunSchematic illustration of the experimental set up available at MEC end-station. The four epiX 10k detectors are covering a Q-range between 15 …