Our solar system and everything within it—including the Earth—will look very different when the sun dies.
Planetary Sciences
Apr 9, 2024
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Potential signs of the rainbow-like "glory effect" have been detected on a planet outside our solar system. Glory are colorful concentric rings of light that occur only under peculiar conditions.
Astronomy
Apr 5, 2024
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During night-like conditions created during the totality of a solar eclipse, like that of April 8, planets and stars are visible. Venus and Jupiter, bracketing the sun, will be very noticeable, while Mercury will be rather ...
Astronomy
Apr 3, 2024
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NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock.
Space Exploration
Apr 3, 2024
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Our sun is both our best friend and our worst enemy. On the one hand, we owe our very existence to our star. Earth and the other planets in the solar system formed out of the same cloud of gas and dust as the sun.
Astronomy
Mar 30, 2024
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By analyzing the data from ESA's XMM-Newton and Gaia satellites, astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany and elsewhere have detected a new magnetic cataclysmic variable system, most ...
Things are moving quickly, and they need to. On March 13, the Government of British Columbia announced that it would be harvesting 25 deer in the Kootenays. This announcement came six weeks after chronic wasting disease (CWD)—a ...
Ecology
Mar 28, 2024
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Massive cost overruns. Key deadlines slipping out of reach. Problems of unprecedented complexity, and a generation's worth of scientific progress contingent upon solving them.
Astronomy
Mar 28, 2024
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When you need to measure white blood cell counts, it usually involves trips to clinics and expensive equipment for analysis. Likewise, checking water quality for contaminants can be a lengthy process.
Biochemistry
Mar 28, 2024
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A bat infected with a fungus that has killed millions of bats across the country was found in Longmont last month.
Plants & Animals
Mar 27, 2024
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