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Archive for May 21st, 2024

Stars give tiny planets a gravitational ‘squeeze’ to strip away their atmospheres

May 21st, 2024 by

Modeling distant planets has revealed that tidal forces generated by their parent stars can combine with intense radiation bombardment and strip away their atmospheres.

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Young ‘cotton candy’ exoplanet the size of Jupiter may be shrinking into a super-Earth

May 21st, 2024 by

Astronomers have found that one of the lightest exoplanets ever seen, the young ‘cotton candy’ world V1298 Tau b, may be shrinking from the size of Jupiter to the width of a super-Earth.

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Black holes are mysterious, yet also deceptively simple ? a new space mission may help physicists answer hairy questions about these astronomical objects

May 21st, 2024 by

For years, physicists have been looking to prove that black holes are more complex than they seem. And a newly approved European space mission called LISA will help us with this hunt.

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Space mysteries: Do all planets have magnetic fields?

May 21st, 2024 by

How do scientists know if a planet has a magnetic field?

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Right again, Einstein! Scientists find where matter ‘waterfalls’ into black holes

May 21st, 2024 by

Einstein was right! Scientists found the first-ever evidence of “plunging regions” of spacetime where matter inexorably falls into black holes, as predicted by general relativity.

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The James Webb Space Telescope may have solved a puffy planet mystery. Here’s how

May 21st, 2024 by

A surprisingly low amount of methane explains how WASP-107 b grew into the inflated world we see today.

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SpaceX fuels up Starship megarocket ahead of 4th test flight (photos)

May 21st, 2024 by

SpaceX just fueled up its giant Starship rocket, checking another box ahead of the vehicle’s fourth test flight.

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Something strange is happening with Earth’s magnetic field tail

May 21st, 2024 by

Scientists are diving into the mystery of the missing storm in Earth’s magnetotail, which refers to our planet’s magnetic field tail.

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