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The mystery of the missing super-Earths and mini-Neptunes may finally be solved

Scientists have found some planets may migrate toward the hearts of their planetary systems early on in their lives, possibly explaining the lack of planets we see that are around twice the width of Earth. Over the years, scientists have managed to ...

A star's extreme outburst could be tormenting baby planets

An extreme eruption from a young star that resembles the sun suggests budding planets have to exist in a rather savage environment. A team of scientists from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) used the ...

The best places to search for life in our Solar System

As humans have learned more about the planets and moons of our Solar System, we've identified several that could have the potential to hold life. But space is vast and exploration is challenging, so humanity has to focus our search on the worlds that we ...

Canadian astronaut reveals Indigenous art patch for Artemis 2 moon mission

The first Canadian who will fly to the moon now has a patch to represent his own mission, as well as the knowledge passed on by his country's original explorers. Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who in 2025 will fly as a member of ...

Young Mars had active volcanoes near a mile-deep lake. Could life have thrived there?

Early Mars may have been more tectonically and volcanically active than previously thought. Evidence of tectonic activity around 4 billion years ago was provided by 63 new examples of various volcanoes found in a strange region of Mars with odd properties ...

Just one month after failed mission, a second US lunar lander is ready to make an attempt

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Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lunar lander will be the second vehicle launched under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. The spacecraft will aim to carry science and technology payloads to the moon. NASA.

James Webb Space Telescope tracks a galaxy's history back to just after the Big Bang

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to map out the history of stars in a low-mass dwarf galaxy that resembles galaxies that filled the early universe. The research could help better understand how star formation rates have changed ...

How semiconductor defects could boost quantum technology

Researchers led by Greg Fuchs, Ph.D. '07, professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell Engineering, went searching for such a spin in the popular semiconductor gallium nitride and found it, surprisingly, in two distinct species of defect, one of ...

What is Venus' quasi-moon Zoozve?

Venus and Mercury are the only planets in the Solar System without moons, but that's not the whole story. In 2002, astronomer Brian Skiff of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ, discovered the first known quasi-moon around Venus.

New study on decomposing microbes could help transform forensic science

"It's really cool that there are these microbes that always show up to decompose animal remains," said Colorado State University Associate Professor Jessica Metcalf, the senior author on the new work published in Nature Microbiology. "Hopefully, we're ...