Celestial happenings are surely a feast for skygazers, and this particular fraternity is what NASA’s NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify…
Astronomers hoping to observe a planet around a nearby star have witnessed a much rarer “unprecedented celestial event,” the team said: The violent aftermath of not one, but two collisions between the rocky building blocks of planets.
Over the…
If you have teenagers — or were once a teenager yourself — you’ve probably experienced this: Your kid’s jeans fit perfectly in September, but by December they’re showing ankle. The adolescent growth spurt can feel astonishingly fast, with…
Astronomers have found a strange world outside the solar system that is ripe for science fiction — but it’s all real.
The exoplanet, dubbed PSR J2322-2650 b, has a helium-and-carbon…
Deep inside stars, giant planets, and even Earth’s core, matter exists in a strange in-between state—neither solid nor fully plasma. Known as warm dense matter, this extreme form of matter shapes how planets generate magnetic fields and how…
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Washington, DC [US], December 20 (ANI/WAM): The US space agency NASA has lost contact with the Mars probe “Maven”. Work is underway to re-establish contact, a NASA spokeswoman told the German news agency DPA.
No regular data had been received for…
