If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.
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Author: Keith Cooper
Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
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Is this the first hint of Planet Nine?
The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like Pluto, …
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Author: Mark Thompson
‘It’s answering one of the questions of the century’: Scientists may finally know where the oldest gold in the universe came from
Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new study hints. Powerful magnetar flares may be the reason.
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Author: Sascha Pare
Doomed Soviet satellite from 1972 will tumble uncontrollably to Earth next week — and it could land almost anywhere
The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it’s due a fiery reentry to Earth.
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Author: Ben Turner
Gold breakthrough as scientists answer ‘one of the questions of the century’
The study has revealed that the existence of gold goes back further than previously thought.
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Author: Holly Kintuka
Space Is Turning Into a Gold Mine—Here’s How Massive Amounts of Gold Are Being Made!
Scientists have discovered that powerful space phenomena are creating massive amounts of gold in space.
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Author: Lydia Amazouz
Exact time to see a sky full of meteors, the Flower Moon, and other spectacular night sky events this May
Mark your calendars, there are plenty of stunning celestial events to see in May
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Author: Bethan Finighan
‘Gold from a Dying Star’: Scientists uncover a rare cosmic metal factory
A new study reveals that violent magnetar flares can forge gold and platinum in space, offering rare insight into the cosmic origins of Earth’s most precious metals.
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Author: BUSINESSTODAY
The Magnetar That Forged a Planet’s Worth of Gold in Half a Second
A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major source of the universe’s heaviest elements like gold and platinum. Researchers have shown that this intense flare, brighter than anything seen before in our galaxy, create
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Our ape cousins show us empathy has deep evolutionary roots
It may be time to move on from species stereotypes.
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Author: Zanna Clay
What’s in the Southern Hemisphere sky this month?
Mars starts May not far from the Beehive star cluster, Venus is unmistakable in the predawn sky, and Mercury looks best early in the month.
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Author: Martin George
Underwater volcano off the U.S. coast is about to erupt
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Author: Julia Musto
Arctic plant study reveals an ‘early warning sign’ of climate change upheaval
A warming tundra has seen unexpected shifts, raising the alarm about fragile ecosystems and those who rely on them
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Author: Leyland Cecco
What people get wrong about metabolism—an interview with Herman Pontzer
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Arctic Plants React Unexpectedly to Climate Change
Rapid climate change is upending established plant diversity and growth patterns in the Arctic, with species blooming in some areas and declining in others, suggests a study published today in the journal Nature.The decades-long study of more than 2,000 plant communities across 45 areas in the Arctic tundra found that many locations saw vegetation change in type, abundance and growth, between 1981 and 2022.
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Author: Katherine E Kerlin
Underwater Volcano in Pacific Northwest Set to Erupt—Scientists Reveal Key Insights
In an exciting development, scientists from the University of Washington have observed signs that an underwater volcano off the coast of the Pacific Northwest
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Author: Lydia Amazouz
Scientists flabbergasted after observing major change at Earth’s North and South Poles: ‘More than the effect of ice ages’
Rising temperatures are melting glaciers and sheets of ice, causing water to be redistributed worldwide and shifting Earth’s poles.
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Author: Alyssa Ochs
Cyclones on Jupiter and a moon with flowing magma: NASA Juno probe’s latest discoveries are awesome
A group of swirling storms at Jupiter’s north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.
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Author: Keith Cooper
Vega launches Biomass satellite
A Vega C rocket successfully launched an Earth science satellite for the European Space Agency, a mission officials said was also a demonstration of European space sovereignty.
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Author: Jeff Foust
New data from NASA’s Juno mission shows winds beneath Jupiter and Io surfaces
NASA’s Juno mission has peered below the surface to help scientists better understand Jupiter’s storms and its moon Io’s subsurface temperature.
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Author: @cosmosmagazine
Juno mission gets under Jupiter’s and Io’s surface
New data from the agency’s Jovian orbiter sheds light on the fierce winds and cyclones of the gas giant’s northern reaches and volcanic action on its fiery moon.
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Author: DC Agle,Karen Fox,Molly Wasser,Deb Schmid
New Study Suggests Gravity May Be an Optimization Process in a Computational Universe
A new study published in AIP Advances suggests gravity may emerge from entropy reduction in a universe behaving like a computer.
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Author: Matt Swayne
NASA’s Expedition 19 crew captured satellite imagery of man-made object that’s slowing down Earth’s rotation
Captured during Expedition 19, NASA’s satellite photos show how the Three Gorges Dam subtly changes Earth’s rotation and axis position.
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Author: Kegan Mooney
Barrow-born astrophysicist praised by Nobel Prize winning scientist
A astrophysicist from Barrow has caught the attention of a world-renowned scientist.
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Author: Andrew Cunningham
