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Space.com

“Co-orbital planets are ‘fossils’ of the planetary formation processes; at present, they are like unicorns.” Comments (0). glowing orange rings, which indicate a young planetary system, against the blackness of space. Obsevations of the exoplanet PDS …

Space.com

A new experimental technique placed constraints on a potential candidate for dark matter called ‘dark photons.’ Comments (0). interconnected pinkish filaments form a spiderweb pattern against a dark-blue background. A visualization of dark matter …

The Hill

The Senate is signaling deep skepticism about NASA’s ambitious plans to fetch samples of soil from the red planet, expressing concerns over the mission’s cost and viability. Senate appropriators are offering just $300 million in funding for fiscal 2024 …

Space.com

SpaceX just aborted a rocket launch for the second time in less than a week. One of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets was scheduled to launch 15 Starlink internet satellites from California’s foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday (July 19) at …

Space.com

Hopefully the skies in your area are clear tonight (July 19), because there will be an excellent grouping of celestial bodies shortly after sunset. While smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to create hazy skies in many parts of North America, …

NPR

When dinosaurs ruled the Earth, we tend to think of the mammals at the time — including our distant ancestors — as small and quivering in the shadows. “We’ve always had this picture of mammals as the literal underdogs,” says Elsa Panciroli, …

CNN

Two Jupiter-like planets, known as PDS 70b and PDS 70c, are already known to orbit the star. But astronomers also spied a cloud of debris within the orbital path of PDS 70b, which could represent the building blocks of a new planet that is actively forming …

Scientific American

In a first, astronomers have observed time ticking in slow motion in the early cosmos, confirming Albert Einstein’s century-old ideas about the reality-warping effects of our universe’s expansion. By tracking the flickering glows of luminous matter …

Phys.Org

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the early universe. Similar observational signatures have been observed in the much more recent universe, and have been attributed to …

Phys.Org

In dual-phase xenon detectors, like the PandaX detector, dark matter could typically manifest itself via a prompt scintillation signals (S1) and an ionization signal (S2). To reduce the threshold energy at …