Just because Earth is a place known for harboring life, doesn’t mean it’s the best planet for a job. Somewhere outside the universe, another orbiting object may be in a better position to support object life, and it may not feel like our own. “We have to focus on some …
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Depicting how our species might look in the distant future often invites wild speculation on stand-out features such as height, brain size and skin color. The subtle shifts in our anatomy today show how predictable evolution can be. Take something as physical as an extra blood vessel in our hand, …
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Pulling into a valley on Mars, scientists have discovered a wind-filled area of solid sand, which turned to rock about a billion years ago. Despite the drastic decline, time has survived significantly in this stable plain of the Paleo-Dunes, which is longer than the fossil waves of sand on Earth, …
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On Tuesday, September 29, the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos) announced that astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had found the source of a suspicious leak. The crew of the expedition – NASA astronaut and commander Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Evan Wagner – had been …
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Astronomers have obtained the highest resolution of infrared images near the Kerina Nebula, a thick cloud of dust and gas in which stars are actively forming. Gemini in Chile is incredible to see the newly obtained images obtained from the South Telescope. It’s also useful for understanding stellar nurseries and …
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