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Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars. The brown dwarfs ...
The brown dwarfs produce eclipses of one another, as seen from Earth, making them part of an ‘eclipsing ... while diagrams and patterns showing the apsidal precession of the brown dwarf’s orbit caused ...
Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan's team has detected dimethyl sulfide (DMS) on exoplanet K2-18b, a potential biosignature produced by living organisms like marine algae on Earth. This discovery, made using ...
The brown dwarfs produce eclipses of one another, as seen from Earth, making them part of an "eclipsing binary." Publishing their discovery in Science Advances, the researchers note that this is ...
Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-31 mission successfully launched and returned to Earth, carrying an all-female crew beyond the Kármán line. The eleven-minute suborbital flight, launched from West ...
A new Alien: Earth trailer has emerged online, offering fans their best look yet at the upcoming TV series. The trailer, revealed on the @CineGeekNews X/Twitter account, below, was first shown at ...
BEIJING -- China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde Orbit in the Earth-moon region of space, laying a foundation for the ...
Scientists Find Evidence That Overturns Theories of the Origin of Water on Earth Apr. 16, 2025 — Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids ...
The main climatic effect of precession is to shift the season when the Earth has its closest pass to the Sun (perihelion) — the so-called precession of the equinoxes. Today, perihelion occurs in ...
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