Artist’s impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured...
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Researchers at MIT have discovered a new phenomenon: that light can cause evaporation of water from its...
Schematic showing the biosphere reaction pathways and an overview of the interaction with the atmosphere captured in...
The plot thickens. Emission Control NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has made consistent and puzzling findings while roaming...
Voyager 1 just refuses to die. Bon Voyage For the first time in five months, NASA’s 46-year-old...
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Earth’s “quasi-moon” was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar system’s history,...
The sun put on quite the show this morning (April 23), blasting out not one, not two,...
Astronomers believe they have found a rare, massive flare that erupted from an extremely magnetic dead star,...
Earth is under constant bombardment by high-energy charged particles called cosmic rays. We’re normally shielded from this...