The southeastern Romanian movie Cave may not be at the top of your holiday list: no light descends from it, the air is thicker than toxic gases, and it was cut off from the outside world about 5.5 million years before its accidental discovery. In 1986. Life is not like …
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On December 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will cross paths in the night sky and for a short moment, they will appear shining together as one body. While connections to planets like these are not everyday occurrences, they are not particularly rare. This year the alliance is different for at …
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Jupiter may be the most famous hurricane in the solar system, but that doesn’t mean it gets all the fun – and Neptune has been introduced to scientists by Doozy. However, the tendency of the storm over a large part of the ice is not uncommon, but this is the …
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In our endless quest to understand the universe and our place within it, precious little blips in the data can signal a whole new world. The light of the star could betray the presence of filled planets in the layer – and now astronomers have taken the first steps towards …
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In 2017, NASA’s space probe discovered a huge, man-made ‘barrier’ around the Earth. And tests have confirmed that it is actually affecting the space weather outside our planet’s atmosphere. This means that not only are we changing the Earth so seriously, scientists are calling for a whole new geographical age …
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