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Ancient texts reveal a black Pyramid is missing at the Giza plateau

The three major pyramids at the Giza plateau are perhaps the most famous trio of pyramids on the surface of the planet. But, according to ancient texts, there was a fourth MAJOR pyramid at Giza, made of a stone more black than the common granite and its summit ends in a single great […]

Starlinks can produce surprisingly bright flares for pilots

How can sunlight reflecting off SpaceX’s Starlink satellites interfere with ground-based operations? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to address as a pair of researchers investigate how Starlink satellites appear brighter—which the researchers also refer to as flaring—to observers on Earth when the sun is at certain angles, […]

Fish are adapting to weightlessness on the Chinese space station

Four zebrafish are alive and well after nearly a month in space aboard China’s Tiangong space station. As part of an experiment testing the development of vertebrates in microgravity, the fish live and swim within a small habitat aboard the station.

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Video: Five new stunning images from Euclid’s Telescope

ESA’s Euclid space mission has released five unprecedented new views of the universe. These never-before-seen images demonstrate Euclid’s remarkable ability to unravel the secrets of the cosmos.

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The Earth’s changing, irregular magnetic field is causing headaches for polar navigation

The Earth’s liquid molten outer core, composed mostly of iron and nickel, exerts an electromagnetic field extending from the north and south pole that protects the planet from harmful solar particle radiation.

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Could Martian atmospheric samples teach us more about the red planet than surface samples?

NASA is actively working to return surface samples from Mars in the next few years, which they hope will help us better understand whether ancient life once existed on the red planet’s surface billions of years ago. But what about atmospheric samples? Could these provide scientists with better information pertaining to the history of Mars? […]

NASA’s Europa Clipper makes cross-country flight to Florida

Assembled at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the spacecraft arrived at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 23 for launch preparations.

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Recent and extensive volcanism discovered on Venus

A new analysis of data collected on Venus more than 30 years ago suggests the planet may currently be volcanically active.

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Black holes are firing beams of particles, changing targets over time

Black holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. This is at least partly due to the extreme physics that takes place in and around them, but sometimes, it might harken back to cultural touchpoints that made them interested in astronomy in the first place.

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Sloshing cold front detected in a massive galaxy cluster

By analyzing the data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers from India and South Africa have investigated a massive galaxy cluster known as Abell 2566. They detected sloshing cold fronts in the intracluster medium (ICM) of this cluster. The finding was reported in a research paper published May 17 on the preprint server arXiv.

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Saudi fund launches new group to boost space industry

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF)on Monday launched the Neo Space Group to work on the kingdom’s nascent satellite and space industry, its first investment in the sector.

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Rethinking the sun’s cycles: New physical model reinforces planetary hypothesis

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Latvia have posited the first comprehensive physical explanation for the sun’s various activity cycles. It identifies vortex-shaped currents on the sun, known as Rossby waves, as mediators between the tidal influences of Venus, Earth as well as Jupiter and the sun’s magnetic activity.

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Scientists discover polar Bloch points in strained ferroelectric films

A Bloch point is a singular point around which the field vectors are oriented in nearly all directions. In magnetics, it is the natural link between classical and quantum magnetism, and it has not been directly observed. In ferroelectrics, it has only been predicted in a few cases.

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Researchers create dispersion-assisted photodetector to decipher high-dimensional light

A new study published in Nature, conducted by an international collaboration team led by Prof. Wei Li from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduces a novel miniaturized photodetector capable of characterizing arbitrary polarization states across a broadband spectrum with a single device and a […]

Researchers measure crystal nucleation in supercooled atomic liquids

Researchers at European XFEL in Schenefeld near Hamburg have taken a closer look at the formation of the first crystallization of nuclei in supercooled liquids. They found that the formation starts much later than previously assumed. The findings could help to better understand the creation of ice in clouds in the future and to describe […]