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Why a giant ‘cold spot’ in the cosmic microwave background has long perplexed astronomers
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Leftover light from the young universe has a major flaw, and we don’t know how to fix it. It’s the cold spot. ...
Blue fireball flashes in night sky as comet fragment soars over Spain and Portugal | Science & Tech News
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Footage filmed from several cities across both countries shows an object of “cometary origin” streaking across the sky at around 28 miles ...
A new theory of quantum gravity could explain the biggest puzzle in cosmology, study suggests
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A variation on the theory of quantum gravity — the unification of quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity — could help solve ...
Blue fireball lights up European skies as meteor streaks by
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A blue meteor lit up the sky over Europe on Saturday night as a chunk of comet burned up in the atmosphere. ...
How the perils of space have affected asteroid Ryugu
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Enlarge / The surface of Ryugu. Image credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, ...
NASA-funded pulsed plasma rocket concept aims to send astronauts to Mars in 2 months
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An innovative rocket system could revolutionize future deep space missions to Mars, reducing travel time to the Red Planet to just a ...
Hubble Captures the Birth of a Sun-like Star
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star star system. Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: ...
Faster-than-light “warp speed” drives now thought to be possible • Earth.com
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In another example of how truth is often stranger than fiction, scientists have taken a significant step towards turning the sci-fi concept ...
Spiders Use Their Webs as Giant Microphones to Hear What’s Going on Around Them, Says New Research
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Torbjørn Helgesen Spiders use their webs as giant microphones reveals new research that shows how the arachnids weave webs to do more ...
NASA’s Flyby Of Europa Suggests “Something” Stirring Beneath The Ice
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Landmarks on Europa’s surface suggest the icy crust is at the mercy of the waters below. Most important, a recent visit by ...
