SpaceX’s Thesis Sounds Far-Fetched. Is There Any Way This Company Could Ever Make Money?
There’s an old adage that if you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Missed Nvidia in 2009?…
Rare Meteorite Found In Sahara Proves A Mars-Sized Lost Planet Once Orbited Our Sun
Our Solar System may once have contained an additional world that has since disappeared. Scientists believe this lost…
Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins
The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator,…
Astronomers detect winds from a black hole reaching 30% of the speed of light
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing two black holes. Recently, astronomers have detected powerful winds in a…
Lunar Meteorite Preserves Evidence of Colossal Asteroid Strike
Planetary scientists analyzing a lunar meteorite known as Northwest Africa (NWA) 12593 have uncovered evidence of an asteroid…
Uranus’ Moons May Have Been Smashed and Rebuilt — Twice
Uranus as captured by Voyager 2 on December 16, 1986. Credit: NASA Uranus is already the oddball of…
Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert
The solar system as we know it today began to form roughly 4.6 billion years ago, with the…
Scientists spot signs of magnetic fields on distant planets
Based on the behavior of winds on seven large and hot gas exoplanets, astronomers have obtained the strongest…
‘Hot Jupiter’ winds blasting at over 15,000 mph reveal 1st evidence of exoplanets with magnetic fields
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Meteorite Found in Africa Preserves Evidence of Long-Lost Massive Protoplanet
The Northwest Africa (NWA) 12774, an angrite meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert, likely in Mauritania, appears to…
Astronomers Detect Clearest Signs Yet of Magnetic Fields on Extrasolar Planets
By tracking fierce winds racing through the atmospheres of seven ultra-hot Jupiters, astronomers have uncovered the strongest evidence…
Webb Detects Methane on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Using the spectral data from the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have…