When our sun was a young star, 4.56 billion years ago, what is now our solar system was just a disk of rocky dust and gas. Over tens of millions of years, tiny dust pebbles coalesced, like a snowball rolling larger and larger, ...
Astronomy
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According to new research we can start writing the eulogy for four exoplanets around a sun-like star about 57 light years away. But there's no hurry; we have about 1 billion years before the star becomes a red giant and starts ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 1, 2023
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In work published in Science Advances, a team of researchers have determined a new pressure scale, which is critical for understanding the Earth's composition.
Earth Sciences
Sep 11, 2023
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At the center the Earth is a solid metal ball, a kind of "planet within a planet," whose existence makes life on the surface possible, at least as we know it.
Earth Sciences
Jul 5, 2023
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A team of physicists has discovered a new role for a specific type of turbulence—a finding that sheds light on fluid flows ranging from the Earth's liquid core to boiling water.
General Physics
May 15, 2023
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For the first time, scientists have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet—not just a nibble or bite, but one big gulp.
Astronomy
May 6, 2023
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A small international team of space scientists has discovered a pair of planets that bear a striking resemblance to Neptune and Jupiter circling a star similar in nature to our sun. The group has published their findings ...
An international research team including astronomers at the University of Birmingham, has just announced the discovery of two "super-Earth" planets orbiting LP 890-9, a small, cool star located about 100 light-years from ...
Astronomy
Sep 7, 2022
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When our sun exhausts the hydrogen fuel in its core some 5 billion years from now, it will expand to become a red giant, engulfing the inner planets. The dynamics and possible outcomes of planetary engulfment are poorly understood, ...
Astronomy
Jun 13, 2022
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Solar Orbiter's latest images shows the full sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on 7 March, when the spacecraft was crossing directly between the Earth and sun.
Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2022
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