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“The discovery of patches of small, bright galaxies in the early universe would confirm that we are on the right track with the cold dark matter model.”.

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The scene is the University of Arizona’s Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis. Researchers there are using instruments to dig into what the OSIRIS-REx collectibles are telling them, right down to the atomic scale.

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On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse moved from the Pacific to the Atlantic, throwing a narrow corridor through 14 U.S. states under the moon’s shadow in the first coast-to-coast totality for 99 years. On that day, the shadow moved from Oregon …

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High-energy particles from space constantly bombard Earth at near light speed, but what are their origins? Comments (0). earth hangs in the middle of streaking stars. An illustration shows cosmic rays launched through space by cosmic events bombarding …

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It’s very cool: We have fresh material to look at that may have been the building blocks from which Earth was formed. Comments (0). a black and white rock on a white background. A fragment of the Asteroid 2024 BX1 recovered in Germany is a rare class …

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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has spotted a ‘super-Earth’ planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a relatively nearby red dwarf star. The extrasolar planet or ‘exoplanet,’ which has been designated TOI-715 b, might have company …

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Scientists also released a video showing Juno’s gradual approach to the Jovian satellite — a sphere pockmarked with points of light from volcanic eruptions. Juno launched in 2011 and entered orbit around Jupiter …

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NASA’s PACE spacecraft is set to launch early Wednesday morning from Florida. ByLeah Sarnoff. February 6, 2024, 1:53 PM. 0:39. Sea sponges lead scientists to believe Earth surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. The sea sponge, called sclerosponge, …

CU Boulder Today

Astrophysicists at CU Boulder will be part of the first United States science payloads to land on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. Their data could help reveal the sheath of charged particles that lies just above the Moon, potentially giving the lunar …

BBC News

A unique species of flying reptile, or pterosaur, that lived 168-166 million years ago has been discovered on the Isle of Skye. Its wings, shoulders, legs and backbone were found in a rock on a beach, but the fossil’s skull was missing.