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NASA’s Juno spacecraft made extremely close flybys of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io in December 2023 and February 2024, getting within about 1,500 km (930 miles) of the surface.
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19h ago
A set of 632 main-belt asteroids (178 previously known and 454 unknown objects) has been identified in the archival images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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2d ago
Ichthyotitan severnensis lived in the Triassic seas around 202 million years ago and might have measured more than 25 m (82 feet).
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3d ago
New archaeological excavations have revealed repeated phases of human occupation of Umm Jirsan lava tube in the Harrat Khaybar, north-western Saudi Arabia.
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3d ago
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected methane emission from CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3 (W1935 for short), an isolated brown dwarf with a temperature of approximately 482 K.
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3d ago
New research shows for the first time that competition was fundamental to speciation -- the rate at which new species emerge -- across 5 million years of hominin evolution.
The post Interspecific Competition Played Key Role in Rise and Fall of Hominins, Study Suggests appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News ..read more
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3d ago
Using life on Earth as a guide, astrobiologists from Cornell University and the University of Minnesota looked beyond green landscapes to expand their ability to detect signs of surface life on other worlds.
The post Purple is the New Green: Purple Bacteria Could Dominate Wide Range of Exoplanetary Environments appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News ..read more
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Physicists from the CMS Collaboration at CERN have just publicly released the combination of CMS measurements that contributed to establishing the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.
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4d ago
Pluto’s surface is dominated by the huge, pear-shaped basin Sputnik Planitia, which appears to be of impact origin, but modeling has not yet explained its peculiar geometry.
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Tardigrades can survive remarkable doses of ionizing radiation, up to about 1,000 times the lethal dose for humans.
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