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Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionIn 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of an Earth-size rocky planet. Knowing of no way that phosphine could be...

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Diamond rain in the universe probably more widespread than previously assumed

Jan 08, 2024 (Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers led by Mungo Frost from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California and including DESY scientists...

New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionEarth’s fate rests on a coin flip. In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star. Whether Earth survives is an...

Scientists measure the distance to stars by their music

Dec 15, 2023 (Nanowerk News) For most of us, the countless bright spots in the nighttime sky all seem to be stars. But in fact,...

Building Telescopes on the Moon Could Transform Astronomy—and It’s Becoming an Achievable Goal

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the moon by...

Six planet system is perfectly tuned – Physics World

A rare system of six exoplanets, all smaller than Neptune but larger than Earth, has been found with orbits that are all resonant with...

How the World’s Biggest Optical Telescope Could Crack Some of the Greatest Puzzles in Science

Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos to what the nature...

Have We Already Recorded Proof of Alien Civilizations? There’s Only One Way to Know for Sure

My college laptop was slow. It didn’t help that the internet was too. Neither fact distracted me from two crucial tasks: downloading music and...

Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionOur planet is doomed. In a few billion years, the sun will exhaust its hydrogen fuel and swell into a red giant — a star so...

Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionFor decades, astronomers have been perplexed by planetary magnetic fields. In our own solar system, there is no rule that explains which worlds generate...

The Launch of Chandrayaan 3 – India Yet Again Scripts History

Quoting the Missile Man of India- Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam – “History has proven that those who dare to imagine the impossible are the...

Goodbye Mirrors: This Telescope Could Collect 100x More Light Than the James Webb

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. The grand question is whether any of these planets are...

A ‘Planet That Shouldn’t Exist’ Is Puzzling Astronomers

The search for planets outside our solar system—exoplanets—is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than...

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