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Scientists spot 6 alien worlds orbiting a star in strange — but precise — harmony

And when scientists looked at these observations more closely, they realized that the worlds seemed to be keeping time against each other. So they recruited some more instruments — and discovered the system hosts at least six planets, five of which tick off ...

Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it's going to get worse.

Washington Post

Washington Post

Global ice loss has increased rapidly over the past two decades, and scientists are still underestimating just how much sea levels could rise, according to alarming new research published this month. From the thin ice shield covering most of the Arctic Ocean ...

5 planets found in unusual rhythmic dance around a star 200 light-years away

CNN

CNN

A super-telescope made the first direct observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry. This method revealed a complex exoplanetary atmosphere with clouds of iron and silicates swirling in a planet-wide storm. The technique presents unique ...

For a NASA engineer, writing about Challenger tragedy was tough

Florida Today

Florida Today

When engineer Roland Norris set out to write down the stories of his career spanning 40 years at NASA, he had one regret. "I wish I'd kept a journal or made notes. Instead I wrote it all from memory," Norris told FLORIDA TODAY. He discovered quickly that he ...

A new class of superconductors

A new theory that could explain how unconventional superconductivity arises in a diverse set of compounds might never have happened if physicists Qimiao Si and Emilian Nica had chosen a different name for their 2017 model of orbital-selective ...

Preliminary investigation offers possible cause of Arecibo Observatory telescope collapse

An image of Arecibo Observatory's iconic radio telescope before damage that began in August 2020; the curved azimuth arm and the dome suspended from it are both visible. (Image: © University of Central Florida).

Hear the strange music of distant planetary system TOI-178

EarthSky

EarthSky

In the animation in this post, the rhythmic movement of newly discovered planets around the star TOI-178 is represented through a musical harmony, created by attributing a note (in the pentatonic scale) to each of the planets. Hear the music of these planets.

Stanford University News

Stanford explainer: Exoplanets and other 'Earths'

Stanford University News

Scientists have found more than 4,000 planets outside our solar system. Here, Stanford University exoplanet expert Bruce Macintosh and leader of the team behind the Gemini Planet Imager explains how scientists find alien worlds, why we should be ...

Global ice loss increases at record rate

Lead author Dr. Thomas Slater, a Research Fellow at Leeds' Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling , said: "Although every region we studied lost ice, losses from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have accelerated the most.

Aliens could be sucking energy from black holes. That may be how we'll find them.

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

And the process could explain at least some flares of plasma, a white-hot form of charged gas, that scientists have already detected near these massive disruptions in time and space. a new study published Jan. 13 in the journal Physical Review D proposes.