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In 1610, Galileo spotted a small, smooth moon circling Jupiter and wrote it down; four hundred years later, scientists confirmed it likely holds the largest ocean in the solar system, buried under ice and never once touched by sunlight
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New ultra-black coating could help astronomers search for alien life - AOL
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (767+ words) Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life. The problem is not finding the star. However, the problem is that the star is billions of times…...
Scientists have discovered the super-Earth Gliese 3378b nearby. It is potentially habitable
12+ hour, 16+ min ago (814+ words) The planet Gliese 3378 orbits a red dwarf star. It is situated at a distance from its star where water on its surface is expected to exist in liquid form. This potential habitability renders it a subject of scientific interest. A…...
We tend to think of Earth as almost impossibly rare, but a University of British Columbia study using Kepler data estimated that the Milky Way could contain as many as six billion rocky, roughly Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of stars like our Sun " not proven Earth twins, but billions of worlds with at least the basic size, star, and distance that make Earth possible.
2+ hour, 11+ min ago (1131+ words) Earth can feel like an exception so complete that no statistic should be able to touch it. Published July 3, 2026 Earth can feel like an exception so complete that no statistic should be able to touch it. It has oceans, continents,…...
Unknown Molecule Possibly Detected on Pluto and Titan by James Webb Telescope
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (1358+ words) A light signature recorded by the James Webb Space Telescope has placed two very different worlds at the center of a new chemical mystery. Data from Pluto and the moon Titan revealed an absorption around 5. 11 micrometers that does not match,…...
Chandrayaan-3's analysis links landing site soil to first known lunar meteorite
4+ hour, 24+ min ago (265+ words) The soil analysed by Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover in the southern high-latitudes on the Moon's nearside has a geochemical composition closely resembling that of the first meteorite confirmed to have a lunar origin, according to a new study. For instance,…...
How to find Uranus this week, the hardest planet I've ever tried to see
4+ hour, 20+ min ago (673+ words) Space You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? Night Sky This Week Space. com's Sci-Fi Reader's Club. Read a sci-fi short story every month and join a virtual community of fellow science fiction…...
Chandrayaan-3's analysis links landing site soil to lunar meteorite
4+ hour, 33+ min ago (93+ words) | ALHA 81005 was discovered in Antarctica in 1982 | Inshorts Inshorts Chandrayaan-3's analysis links landing site soil to lunar meteorite Soil analysed by Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover near the Moon's south pole has a geochemical composition closely matching that of ALHA 81005, the…...
Demographics Of Planet-forming Disks With The SKAO
8+ hour, 13+ min ago (248+ words) [astro-ph. EP] Understanding how solid material in planet-forming disks evolves from micron-sized dust to planetary cores is a central challenge in modern astrophysics. This study has advanced dramatically in the past decade, largely driven by ALMA and high-contrast imaging facilities....
Chemical Abundances of the Bioessential Elements C, O and S, and the Refractory Elements
8+ hour, 26+ min ago (172+ words) [astro-ph. EP] We determined atmospheric and evolutionary parameters, along with chemical abundances of C, O, S, Fe, and Ni for 290 solar-type exoplanet hosting stars using high-resolution HARPS-North and HARPS-South spectra, and radii for 373 exoplanets using literature transit depths. We find…...