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China’s Chang’e-6 Detects Negative Ions on the Moon’s Surface

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made a groundbreaking discovery on the far side of the Moon, detecting negative ions on the lunar surface ...

How long would it take to reach Planet 9, if we ever find it?

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Some experts believe that we could be just a few years away from discovering the elusive “Planet Nine” — or ruling out ...

We’ve tried over 100 of the UK’s best outdoor activities and these are the top five adventures, from one of England’s ‘last slivers of wilderness’ to Northern Ireland’s ‘best-kept secret’

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

‘Adventure doesn’t have to be exclusive to intrepid explorers, big budgets or far away lands.’ So say photographers and founders of The ...

Vera C. Rubin Observatory: The groundbreaking mission to make a 10-year, time-lapse movie of the universe

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Astronomers are about to begin making a time lapse of the night sky using the largest digital camera ever constructed. Designed to ...

Watch This: F-22 Raptors Chase SpaceX Falcon 9 Over Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A screenshot from the video filmed from the cockpit of an F-22 (Image credit: Air Dot Show Tour). In the box, SpaceX ...

High-speed baby stars circle the supermassive black hole Sgr A* like a swarm of bees

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s ...

8 strange objects that could be hiding in the outer solar system

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

You might think we know the solar system pretty well, but there’s a lot more to our cosmic neighborhood than initially meets ...

Facial Expressions Key to Strong Social Bonds

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Summary: Humans may have evolved complex facial expressions to enhance social bonding. By analyzing over 1,500 natural conversations, the study found that ...

12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The black hearts of galaxies have had their history told almost in full for the first time, as astronomers combined X-ray observations ...

Scientists discover one of the biggest countries in the world is ‘splitting in two

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Updated 21:04 14 Jun 2024 GMT+1Published 21:05 14 Jun 2024 GMT+1 A study suggested that the plate beneath Indian was splitting A ...