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Starless and forever alone: More ‘rogue’ planets discovered

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A NASA handout illustration shows an ice-encrusted, Earth-mass planet. Scientists estimate there could be trillions of rogue planets in the Milky Way ...

Detecting ‘Hawking radiation’ from black holes using today’s telescopes

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The HESS. II five-telescope gamma-ray detector in Namibia. Credit: Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1974 Stephen Hawking famously claimed that black ...

Hubble views cosmic dust lanes

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This Hubble Space Telescope image showcases a nearly edge-on view of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4753. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Kelsey ...

Computer models suggest modern plate tectonics are due to blobs left behind by cosmic collision

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Temporal evolution for the viscosity (upper row) and compositional (lower row) field of the 3D reference case showing LLSVP-sourced plume-induced subduction initiation. ...

Researchers build new device that is a foundation for quantum computing

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Schematics of the nonreciprocal device, with its circulator (center), qubit port, superconducting cavity, and output port. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj8796 ...

Scientists solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the moon’s ‘lopsided’ geology

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Schematic illustration with a gravity gradient map (blue hexagonal pattern) of the lunar nearside and a cross-section showing two ilmenite-bearing cumulate downwellings ...

Voyager 1s ‘gibberish’ message to NASA decoded after aging probe poked

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The Voyager 1’s mission was extended to 2025. But a communication breakdown in November put it in peril. Voyager 1 responds to ...

Fossil unearthed in New Zealand contains the largest fossil crab claw ever found

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Pseudocarcinus karlraubenheimeri n. sp., A, holotype, NMNZ CR.027704, showing dorsal carapace, thoracic sternum and major right cheliped (male); B, detail of right ...

Where will you be for the April 8 total solar eclipse? There’s still time to grab a spot

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

People gather near Redmond, Ore., to view the sun as it nears a total eclipse by the moon, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. ...

Astronomers detect an extremely red supermassive black hole in the early universe growing in the shadows

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Analyzing images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a group of astronomers led by Dr. Lukas Furtak ...