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James Webb Space Telescope discovers water around a mysterious comet

The discovery of water vapor around Comet 238P/Read could significantly boost theories that water, a vital ingredient for life, was delivered to our planet from space by comets. But the study of the comet has also delivered a mystery: Carbon dioxide, which ...

Saturn's rings are much younger than we thought

The findings set a new age for the solar system's most impressive and famous ring system of no older than 400 million years. This is compared to Saturn itself, which was born with the other planets when a cloud of gas and dust around the sun collapsed ...

SpaceX Ax-2 private astronaut mission is 'go' for May 21 launch

The second-ever private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) remains on track to lift off this weekend. NASA, SpaceX and Houston company Axiom Space held a flight readiness review (FRR) today (May 15) for the Ax-2 mission, ...

JUICE Jupiter probe spotted 1 million miles from Earth (video, image)

Europe's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft has been spotted as it zooms away from Earth toward the solar system's largest planet. JUICE launched on April 14, kicking off an eight-year journey to the Jupiter system. Once it gets there, ...

Webb telescope spots water in rare comet

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe a rare comet in our solar system, making a long-awaited scientific breakthrough and stumbling across another mystery at the same time. For the first time, ...

Human DNA can now be pulled from thin air or a footprint on the beach. Here's what that could mean

The researchers from the University of Florida, who were using environmental DNA found in sand to study endangered sea turtles, said the DNA was of such high quality that the scientists could identify mutations associated with disease and determine the ...

Astronomers observe the first radiation belt seen outside of our solar system

The images of persistent, intense radio emissions from an ultracool dwarf reveal the presence of a cloud of high-energy electrons trapped in the object's powerful magnetic field, forming a double-lobed structure analogous to radio images of Jupiter's ...

Betelguese's Brightening Raises Hopes for a Supernova Spectacle

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Scientific American

Even if you don't know it by name, the red supergiant star Betelgeuse is one of the most familiar sights in the heavens above—a gleaming ruddy dot at the shoulder of the constellation Orion. Although already quite difficult to overlook, Betelgeuse has ...

Simulation provides images from the carbon nucleus

The nucleus of a carbon atom normally consists of six protons and six neutrons. But how exactly are they arranged? And how does their configuration change when the nucleus is bombarded with high-energy radiation? For decades, science has been searching for ...

Evidence found of electromagnetic fields from electrical towers disrupting pollinating honeybees

A multi-institutional team of biologists and ecologists from Chile and Argentina has found evidence suggesting that electromagnetic fields emanating from electrical towers disrupt pollinating honeybees. The research is published in the journal Science ...