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Could this asteroid be a piece of the moon? A Chinese spacecraft is about to find out
1+ hour, 46+ min ago (941+ words) The Moon is not the only natural object travelling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the Sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks also take a year to complete a…...
Exoplanet in Habitable Zone Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star Discovered Just 25 Light-Years From Earth
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (425+ words) An exoplanet just 25 light-years from Earth is attracting attention after astronomers confirmed it orbits within the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf star. Named GJ 3378b, the world is considered one of the closest potentially habitable planets discovered so far....
Aditya-L1 observes 'iron fluorescence' on Sun during massive solar flares: ISRO
13+ hour, 56+ min ago (206+ words) New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) India's first space-based mission to observe the Sun, Aditya-L1, has observed "iron fluorescence" on the Sun during massive solar flares, according to a new study. The iron fluorescence phenomenon occurs due to the eruption of a…...
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
5+ hour, 27+ 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
15+ hour, 13+ 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.
5+ hour, 8+ 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
5+ hour, 22+ 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
7+ hour, 21+ 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
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