Sunday, December 7, 2025

Researchers at SwRI May Have Solved the Mystery of Uranus' Radiation Belts

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists believe they may have resolved a 39-year-old mystery about the radiation belts around Uranus...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Russia Loses Launch Capability After Accident at Baikonur Cosmodrome

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A severe accident at the Baikonur Cosmodrome involving a wrecked maintenance cabin has indefinitely delayed Russia's ability to launch ...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Dust In A Telescope's Eye Could Blind It To Earth 2.0

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Hot exozodiacal dust can thwart our efforts to detect exoplanets. It causes what's called coronagraphic leakage, which confuses the lig...

China Outlines Future Plans in New Video, Including Finding Earth 2.0

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A video that appeared on CGTN's Hot Take details four missions that China will be sending to space in the coming years, including a sur...

Historic May 2024 Gannon Solar Storm Compressed Earth’s Plasmasphere

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A powerful geomagnetic superstorm is a once a generation event, happening once every 20-25 years. Such an event transpired on the night of ...

SPHERE Shows Us How Our Solar System Isn't Much Different Than Others

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Observations with the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's VLT revealed the presence of debris rings similar to str...

When Ancient Scribes Accidentally Became Scientists

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On a summer day in 709 BCE, scribes at the Lu Duchy Court in ancient China looked up to witness something extraordinary. The Sun vanished c...