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Video: Solar Orbiter catches Mercury crossing sun's disk

The Solar Orbit watched Mercury as it crossed the face of its usual observing target, the sun. The transit of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun on Jan 3, 2023, offered the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft an opportunity to sharpen its view ...

Oddly shaped asteroid once considered an impact risk for Earth races past the planet

NASA managed to image an asteroid larger than the Empire State Building and with similar proportions as it hurtled past Earth at the beginning of February, 2023. The asteroid, designated 2011 AG5, passed safely past our planet at a distance of around ...

China silent on fate of Zhurong Mars rover on 2nd anniversary of Tianwen 1 mission

China's first interplanetary mission marked its second anniversary in orbit around Mars on Feb. 10, but there was no update on the status of the mission's rover. The Tianwen 1 mission's Zhurong rover entered ...

Scientists created a new form of salty ice on Earth that may exist on ocean worlds

CNN

CNN

Europa has long intrigued scientists because the moon has a subsurface ocean beneath a thick shell of ice. Plumes of water have been known to erupt from cracks in the ice shell, releasing the contents of the moon's alien ocean into space.

The largest structures in the universe are still glowing with the shock of their creation

In the past, we have only ever observed these radio shockwaves directly from collisions between galaxy clusters. However, we believe they exist around small groups of galaxies, as well as in cosmic filaments. There ...

Will brain changes in fighter pilots help astronauts?

EarthSky

EarthSky

We know that space travel can have significant effects on the human body. But how about the brain? The new study, the 1st of its kind, investigated functional brain connectivity – that is, how different regions of the brain interact with each other – in ...

Physicists make most precise measurement yet of magnetic moment of an electron

Physicists use the magnetic moment of particles like electrons to test the standard model by studying interactions between them and virtual particles that come into existence inside of a vacuum chamber. Such study involves measuring the affect of ...

Naked mole-rats 'never stop having babies.' Now we know why

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

Naked mole-rats are among the strangest mammals on the planet. Not only do they live longer than any other rodent ‒ up to 37 years ‒ they can also have babies well into old age. Now, scientists think they've worked out how: The remarkable rodents' secret ...

Scientists Propose New Method to Identify Regions Facing Risks of Large, Powerful Earthquakes

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

With one devastating earthquake after another shaking up Turkey — and dare we say our entire world in many ways — in quick succession, the scientific community has doubled down on its efforts to find tools to predict these events and possibly even ...

Single JWST image encodes science's three greatest mysteries

Big Think

Big Think

With a new, incredibly rich mosaic of Pandora's Cluster (Abell 2744), a cosmic smash-up of at least three separate galaxy clusters, JWST has unveiled a gravitational laboratory. The effects ...