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Science • Jul 17

Scientists looked at Antarctica from the air. What they saw has them worried

Using satellite and drone images to analyse Adélie penguin guano, researchers discovered that the seabirds eat more fish when there is more sea ice and more...

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Science • Jul 17

Microplastics have reached one of Earth’s most isolated ecosystems: Indian Ocean animals carried up to 14

Science News: Life on Earth isn't just about the flora and fauna anymore, microplastics have entered the equation deep enough to reach the surface levels of...

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Science • Jul 17

A physicist explains the overlooked problem that could doom Elon Musk’s Mars colonization plans: dust

Astrophysicist and science writer Adam Becker discusses why the dream of life on Mars may be out of reach, maybe for centuries to come.

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Science • Jul 17

A physicist explains the overlooked problem that could doom Elon Musk’s Mars colonization plans: dust

An astrophysicist is giving Elon Musk's dream of life on Mars a reality check. The SpaceX CEO has long set the ambitious goal of building a self-sustaining...

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Science • Jul 17

The Sky Today on Friday, July 17: The Moon skims south of Venus

The crescent Moon slides south of Venus this afternoon and stands side by side with the bright planet in the post-sunset sky.

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Science • Jul 17

Week in wildlife: a stuck raccoon, a hardy mouse and a well-camouflaged wildcat

Grate expectations … this little raccoon waited patiently to be rescued in rural Pennsylvania, US, after it became trapped in a storm drain Photograph:...

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Science • Jul 17

Seven fragments hidden inside lunar dust returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission came from a rare, water-rich type of asteroid never before confirmed on the Moon — suggesting these fragile bodies bombarded the ancient Earth–Moon system far more often t

The finding begins at a scale easy to miss. Researchers studying dust and rock returned from the far side of the Moon by China's Chang'e-6 mission reported.

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Science • Jul 17

Keep an eye to the sky for this rare celestial pairing that will be visible to the naked eye

People in the U.S. will have a unique opportunity to see an upcoming celestial event — the moon and Venus planetary conjunction — on Friday night.

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Science • Jul 16

Earth-like exoplanet found to have an atmosphere

Scientists discover the first confirmed atmosphere around rocky planet outside our solar system that is within the habitable zone.

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Science • Jul 16

I'm Making Ceramics In My Microwave

After toying with polymer and air dry clay for a few months, I got a miniature pottery wheel and a microwave kiln. Why not take on an even more finicky,...

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Science • Jul 16

Near-Earth asteroid turns out to be something unusual, NASA finds

A recent NASA study has revealed that a near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three decades ago is not, in fact, an asteroid, but rather an unusual object...

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Science • Jul 16

New Jersey home meteorite fragments contain 'extraterrestrial' amino acids

NEW JERSEY -- A meteorite weighing more than 2 pounds (1 kilogram) that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home two years ago could shed light on...

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Science • Jul 16

Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet

It's the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.

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Science • Jul 16

This Meteorite Crashed Into a New Jersey Home in 2024. Now, Scientists Say It Contains Some of the Building Blocks of Life

The Hillsborough meteorite belongs to a rare class of rocks from space, according to a new study. It holds amino acids and other organic compounds,...

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Science • Jul 16

Astronomers discover landslides on Pluto large enough to bury entire cities on Earth

Evidence for landslides down steep crater walls on Pluto have been found in imagery from NASA's New Horizons mission.

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Science • Jul 16

Harvard scientists detect atmosphere on distant ‘Earth-like’ planet

Harvard scientists have discovered an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet in the temperate “habitable zone” of a distant star system — an intriguing hint of...

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Science • Jul 16

First atmosphere detected on a habitable-zone rocky world

In a major milestone in the search for life on other planets, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like,...

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Science • Jul 16

First Atmosphere Detected on a Terrestrial World

A team of astronomers have discovered helium escaping from a rocky planet, marking the first detection of an atmosphere on a potentially habitable world.

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Science • Jul 16

We’ve seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere

If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind.

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Science • Jul 16

Atmosphere found on distant Earth-like planet for first time

Astronomers have for the first time detected an atmosphere around a distant Earth-like planet, in what they called a milestone in the search for life...

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