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Sep 04 2023
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They propose the existence of a world like Earth, hidden in the outer solar system (and it is not Planet Nine)

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

An Earth-like planet could be hidden in the outer solar system. And, according to two Japanese researchers in 'The Astronomical Journal', its presence could help explain some strange properties of the Kuiper belt, a…

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Sep 04 2023
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They discover a giant planet 'made of other planets'

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

How can a planet the size of Neptune be denser than steel? That is the question that an international team of astronomers, led by Luca Naponiello, from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, had to face after discovering TOI-1…

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Sep 04 2023
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Why do insects fly?

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

Insects have successfully conquered most environments, in fact, they were the first animals capable of flight. They achieved it back in the Carboniferous, between 350 and 400 million years ago. At that time the immense hel forests…

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Sep 03 2023
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Interstellar spheres at the bottom of the sea, who believes Avi Loeb?

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

Avi Loeb is a researcher of unquestionable prestige. He headed the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University for almost a decade, writing hundreds of scientific papers on black holes, dark matter, and the fate of…

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Sep 02 2023
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Why do we have five fingers... and not four or seven?

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

Cervera de Buitrago is a town in the Community of Madrid located in the shadow of the Sierra Norte, which arose in the time of Ɓl-Andalus to control the center of the peninsula against the attack of the Christian hordes. It is said that in 1928 he moved…

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Sep 01 2023
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NASA shows the first image of the crater left by the Russian spacecraft on the Moon

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

NASA published on Thursday night the first image of a new crater on the Moon, probably formed by the impact of the Russian Luna-25 probe, which crashed into the surface of the Earth's satellite two weeks ago. The photograph was taken…

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Sep 01 2023
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After the Moon, India wants to conquer the Sun

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

Last week India accomplished a great feat by conquering the sought-after south pole of the Moon, and now its next objective is the Sun. The Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO) announced earlier this week that tomorrow, Saturday, September 2,…

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Sep 01 2023
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The Sun launches an unexpected and massive cloud of plasma against Mars

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

It is what we could call a surprise attack. One launched without warning against Mars, in the form of a fiery cloud of plasma that, according to scientists, could strip the red planet of a good part of its already tenuous and deteriorated atmosphere….

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Aug 31 2023
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The near extinction of our first ancestors was about to condemn our species to non-existence.

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

Between 813,000 and 930,000 years ago, the direct ancestors of our species reduced their numbers so much that they practically became extinct. Which would have meant that Homo sapiens, we, would never have come to exist and humans act…

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Aug 30 2023
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Avi Loeb confirms that the Im1 object, which fell into the Pacific in 2014, came from other stars

By A'ndrea Elyse Messer-Penn State Portal

On January 8, 2014, three years before the passage of Oumuamua, considered until now the first interstellar object detected by man, the sensors of the United States Department of Defense detected 'something' penetrating at full speed…

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