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See the moon's shadow on Earth from the 'ring of fire' solar eclipse in amazing space views

A "ring of fire" solar eclipse crossed over Africa and Asia this weekend, and the view from space was spectacular. A NASA astronaut living and working in space and a host of weather satellites all spotted the dramatic event as the moon's shadow passed over ...

Surprise! Pluto may have had an underground ocean from the very beginning

Though Pluto is now famously frigid, it may have started off as a hot world that formed rapidly and violently, a new study finds. This result suggests Pluto may have possessed an underground ocean since early on in its life, potentially improving its chances of ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may be teeming with ocean worlds

Far-off alien planets covered in vast oceans might be common in our Milky Way galaxy, scientists find. "Ocean worlds" are terrestrial planets that have significant amounts of water either on their surfaces or in a subsurface sea. Right here in our own solar ...

Behold! Hubble telescope catches stunning photos of planetary nebula fireworks

Incredible new images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal nearly dead stars spewing blasts of hot gas into deep space in strange but stunning ways. From studying those images, scientists now suspect that two spectacular nebulas are each powered by ...

NASA thinks it's time to return to Neptune with its Trident mission

Global Color Mosaic of Triton taken by Voyager 2 in 1989. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS. Is it time to head back to Neptune and its moon Triton? It might be. After all, we have some unfinished business there. It's been 30 years since NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

A new symmetry-broken parent state discovered in twisted bilayer graphene

In 2018 it was discovered that two layers of graphene twisted one with respect to the other by a "magic" angle show a variety of interesting quantum phases, including superconductivity, magnetism and insulating behaviors. Now, a team of researchers from the ...

Why some physicists really think there's a 'mirror universe' hiding in space-time

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A series of viral articles claimed that NASA had discovered particles from another parallel universe in which time runs backward. These claims were incorrect. The true story is far more exciting and strange, involving a journey into the Big Bang and out the ...

Scientists home in on pairs of atoms that boost a catalyst's activity

Replacing the expensive metals that break down exhaust gases in catalytic converters with cheaper, more effective materials is a top priority for scientists, for both economic and environmental reasons. Catalysts are required to perform chemical reactions that ...

Scientists provide new explanation for the strange asymmetry of the moon

The Earth‐moon system's history remains mysterious. Scientists believe the system formed when a Mars‐sized body collided with the proto‐Earth. Earth ended up being the larger daughter of this collision and retained enough heat to become tectonically ...

Young giant planet offers clues to formation of exotic worlds

For most of human history our understanding of how planets form and evolve was based on the eight (or nine) planets in our solar system. But over the last 25 years, the discovery of more than 4,000 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, changed all ...