Earth’s population is about 8 billion people right now. But by the late 2070s that number will swell to a staggering 12…
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Science & Technology
A Planet Is Falling Apart: It Sheds Mount-Everest–Sized Chunks and Trails a 9-Million-km Tail
Astronomers at NASA and MIT have found an exoplanet so close to its star that its surface has turned to magma and is evaporating into space. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
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Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in the Solar System, named 2017 OF201. Researchers tracked its movement for seven years using powerful ground-based telescopes located in…
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that Perseverance captured visible auroras on Mars for the first time. The rover photographed the light show in March of last year…
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Not only did researchers at Cambridge and Manchester study this — artificial intelligence got involved too. The Daily Mail asked an AI to depict possible forms of life on the…
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Perseverance rover came across a strange rock on Mars made up of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Scientists don’t know where it came from, but they hope…
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A team of astronomers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University reports that about 3.68 billion years ago an ocean likely covered much of Mars’ northern hemisphere. This month on the…
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Science & Technology
Elon Musk’s plan to put a million people on Mars could wreck the search for life
Recently, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a striking claim: that in 30 years a million people will be living on Mars. Not all scientists agree. Building a city of that…
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Perhaps you already feel that the day is dragging on unbearably long? Likely, it’s not just your boring job to blame. The reason lies in the inner core’s behavior —…
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This enormous world sits 1,232 light-years from Earth. The exoplanet WASP-193b is nearly 50 percent larger than Jupiter. Despite that size, it’s so light and fluffy that its overall density…
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Why did researchers pick this specific time frame? That’s apparently long enough for the world to shift into a radically different climate phase. The team says the planet could face…
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NASA says that in about 18 months, Saturn’s rings will appear to vanish from Earth. But there’s no need to be sad: they’ll only be hidden from our point of…
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Were there oceans on Mars? Scientists have long debated where they came from, how large they were, how deep they reached, and where they went. Numerous recent studies now point…
