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Space.com

A rocky exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star 98 light-years away could hold the secret about how likely it is for planets like Earth to transform into inhospitable worlds like Venus. The exoplanet, named LP 890-9c (also known as SPECULOOS-2c), …

Space.com

An exotic, ultracold state of matter on Earth is helping scientists study the behavior of “fuzzy” dark matter. Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that makes up about 85% of the matter in the universe, yet scientists aren’t sure what it’s made …

Space.com

The near-Earth object 2023 MU2 was seen by the Virtual Project as it made a close approach to our planet on the evening of June 25. Comments (0). A house-size asteroid raced past Earth at a staggering 2,000 miles per hour on Sunday, June 25.

EarthSky

The July full moon occurs at 11:39 UTC on July 3.2023 (6:39 a.m. CDT). The moon rises just after sunset and lies within the Teapot asterism of Sagittarius the Archer. Chart via John Jardine Goss/ EarthSky. When to watch in 2023: Overnight of July 2-3.

Phys.Org

Researchers have reconstructed what alien astronomers observing our Milky Way galaxy from afar would find if they analyzed our home galaxy’s chemical composition. The study, which is led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, …

Phys.Org

Nearly 400 kilograms of soil samples were transported back to Earth. NGI—The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute is now using CT-scans of 10,000 lunar particles from the Apollo expeditions to study how lunar soils will behave when …

Scientific American

I first saw Christof Koch, the neuroscientist, and David Chalmers, the philosopher, butt heads in 1994 at a now legendary conference in Tucson, Ariz., called Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness. Koch was a star of the meeting.

The Washington Post

The marks, which appear on a fossilized half-shinbone found in 1970 in northern Kenya, appear to be the oldest evidence of one hominin butchering another. The discovery raises the compelling, somewhat creepy possibility that …

Phys.Org

In a new study published June 26, in Scientific Reports, National Museum of Natural History paleoanthropologist Briana Pobiner and her co-authors describe nine cut marks on a 1.45 million-year-old left shin bone from a relative of Homo sapiens found in …

Scientific American

Some of the most violent cosmic collisions occur silently in the vacuum of space, but with the right instrumental ears, we can still hear it happen. Here’s how. Full Transcript.