Astronomers from SETI Institute, NASA’s Ames Research Center and Curtin University have traced the impact orbit of 75 observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the main asteroid belt.
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Category: 2. Space
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Scientists Uncover a Galactic Encounter That May Have Changed Earth’s Climate
Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This cosmic journey may have influenced Earth’s climate by compressing the heliosphere and increasing interstellar dust,…
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The nearest single star to Earth has four small planets
The nearest single star to the sun, Barnard’s star, has a brood of planets all its own. The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, hosts four close-in planets each about two to three times the mass of Mars, astronomers…
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NASA’s Crew-9 Returns After 286-Day Mission With a Spectacular Splashdown in the Gulf of America
SpaceX Crew-9’s return to Earth marks another milestone in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, with four astronauts safely completing their long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. From record-breaking spacewalks to…
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Splashes Down Off Coast of Florida
After months in space, four astronauts have safely splashed down in the Gulf of America, completing an extraordinary mission aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with…
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Light pollution threatens fleet of world-class telescopes in Atacama Desert
The Milky Way over Chile’s Paranal Observatory, a site with the darkest skies of 28 leading observatories assessed by researchers.Credit: ESO/P. Horálek
A massive green hydrogen plant proposed for construction in Chile could increase light…
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Forecasting solar energetic particles using multi-source data from solar flares, CMEs, and radio bursts with machine learning approaches
To anticipate the occurrence of SEP events, we must first characterize the phenomena that are used in the prediction.
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SEPs are protons, electrons, and heavier nuclei such as He-Fe undergoing acceleration from a…
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Is dark energy getting weaker? Fresh data bolster shock finding
Part of the DESI telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld
Fresh data have bolstered the discovery that dark energy, the mysterious force that makes galaxies accelerate away from each other,…
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Searching for Extraterrestrial Life on Hycean Worlds
What can methyl halides, which are gases that consist of one carbon and three hydrogen atoms while being attached to a halogen atom, help scientists identify life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study…
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