On July 15, a solar filament erupted from the Sun’s upper left side, ejecting a powerful blast of plasma and magnetic fields into space. The resulting explosion was so massive that it seared a deep,…
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A massive rock from Mars landed on Earth. It sold for a record $5.3M. – The Washington Post
- A massive rock from Mars landed on Earth. It sold for a record $5.3M. The Washington Post
- Largest Mars rock ever found on Earth sells for $4.3m at auction BBC
- World’s biggest Mars rock sells for $5.3 million at auction CNN
- Science suffers when…
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Astronomers Discover Potential Dwarf Planet Lurking Way Beyond Pluto
Astronomers in Japan have spotted a distant object orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune, pointing to an extraordinary event that took place during the earliest years of the solar system.
Astronomers…
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Remember Webb’s ‘impossible’ black holes? Astronomers may have found the answer in the Infinity Galaxy
A team of astronomers may have made the first ever discovery of a newborn supermassive black hole.
If confirmed, the discovery would mean that supermassive black holes can form rapidly, and not just soon after the Big Bang, but throughout the…
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Scientists discover long-lost giant rivers that flowed across Antarctica up to 80 million years ago
Scientists have discovered a long-lost landscape that’s been preserved beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet for 30 million years.
Erosion by ancient rivers appears to have carved large, flat surfaces beneath the ice in East Antarctica between 80…
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Mars rock: Red meteorite sells for $5.3 million at auction
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A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3 million, with taxes and fees, to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby’s New York auction…
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Fossil discovery casts fresh doubt on the history of animal evolution
These complex, looping tracks pressed into ancient seafloor mud look much more like doodles made by a child with a stick than fossils of animal movement.
However, new measurements have shown those squiggles were, in fact, purposeful movements…
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Astronomers see formation of new solar system around distant sun for first time | Astronomy
Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.
It’s an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero”, scientists…
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Astronomers discover a cosmic ‘fossil’ at the edge of our solar system. Is this bad news for ‘Planet 9’?
Astronomers have discovered a massive new solar system body located beyond the orbit of Pluto. The weird elongated orbit of the object suggests that if “Planet Nine” exists, it is much further from the sun than thought, or it has been ejected…
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JWST finds unusual black hole in the center of the Infinity Galaxy: ‘How can we make sense of this?’
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered an oddball galaxy, dubbed the Infinity Galaxy, that could be host to a “direct collapse black hole.” That is, a black hole originally created directly from a vast cloud of…
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