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Is cleaner air accelerating global warming more than we expected?
Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in the atmosphere – but ...
High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...
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Marsquake Waves Are Moving Faster Than They Should and It’s Not Clear Why
In 2021 and 2022, NASA’s InSight lander picked up the tremors coming from the depths of Mars. These Marsquakes were quickly linked with orbital images revealing fresh craters. This was no coincidence: ...
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-77 Chance of Hitting Earth. Here's What It Would Do
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
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Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust
Last week, scientists who analyzed the rubble from a near-Earth asteroid reported their first detailed findings. The ...