High schoolers help discover 4 new alien planets
January 29th, 2021 by
Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright helped find four exoplanets circling the sunlike star HD 108236.
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January 29th, 2021 by
Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright helped find four exoplanets circling the sunlike star HD 108236.
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January 29th, 2021 by
The Doomsday Clock — a hypothetical clock that measures our nearness to utter annihilation, represented by the midnight hour — maintains last year’s time.
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Scientists have resolved a controversial but key climate change mystery, bolstering climate models and confirming that Earth is hotter than it’s been in at least 12,000 years, and perhaps even the last 128,000 years.
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On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!
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January 29th, 2021 by
Zircon crystals found in stream sediments in Greenland have revealed how the Earth’s crust rapidly grew during peak mantle activity.
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Astronomers have long wondered where high-energy cosmic rays come from within our galaxy. And now, new observations reveal an unlikely candidate: an otherwise mundane giant molecular cloud.
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With less than two weeks before the country’s first-ever interplanetary mission slips into orbit around Mars, United Arab Emirates scientists can’t wait for the Hope orbiter’s arrival.
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January 28th, 2021 by
Here is a list of all the full moon names, dates and times in 2021, beginning with the “Wolf Moon” in January, to the “Cold Moon” in December.
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