Is methane the key to finding life on other worlds?
How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...
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Ph.D. Student Ventures to Sweden to Study Space Weather
With HiT&MiS deployed in Sweden, physics Ph.D. student Charmi Patel '24 will use it to monitor the northern lights, as seen ...
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Investigating What Happens to the Body in Space
From the daily newsletter: a doctor goes to Mars. Plus: investigating celebrity yearbooks; Merve Emre on friendship books; ...
This NASA Scientist Is Developing a Spacecraft for Interstellar Travel. Is It the Warp Drive We’ve Been Waiting For?
A scientific discovery that could transform the study of warp drive is now under wraps at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research ...
Eliminating singularities: Physicists describe the creation of black holes through pure gravity
Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...
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Did Covid lockdowns really cause temperatures on the moon to drop?
Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...
Oswego OKs purchase of land as part of plans to expand Public Works facility
The Village Board in early 2024 authorized the hiring of the Itasca-based Williams Architects to identify options for the ...
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Making Sense of Space Weather: Q&A with Physicist Robyn Millan
What is space weather, what causes it, and how does it affect humans? Physicist Robyn Millan, who co-chaired a recent ...
'Grand Canyons' of the moon took just 10 minutes to carve - study
They were dug out by debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface 3.8 billion years ago.
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JWST Spies a Giant Space Hamburger—and Maybe Planetary Origins, Too
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...
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The secret recipe of black holes: Study finds they can 'cook' their own meals in space
Supermassive black holes, regions of space where the pull of gravity is ... To accompany the study's publication, NASA released images of two of the seven galaxy clusters referenced in the ...