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Paul Scott Anderson
A solar flare 10 billion times more powerful than sun’s
Our sun's solar flares are an incredible natural phenomenon, but now astronomers have observed a flare on a young star that almost defies belief. It's 10 billion times more powerful than any seen on our sun!
February 19, 2019
Volcanic activity under Mars’s surface?
Mars has long been thought to be a geologically dead world. Could there still be volcanic activity beneath its surface? A subsurface lake at Mars' south pole suggests that possibility.
February 17, 2019
New Hubble images show storms on Uranus and Neptune
Uranus and Neptune - the ice giants of the solar system - are distant worlds last visited by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the late 1980s. But the Hubble Space Telescope is still keeping an eye on them and their dynamic atmospheres.
February 13, 2019
See China’s Chang’e 4 on moon’s far side
China's Chang'e 4 lander has produced fantastic, 1st-time surface views of the far side of the moon. Now a NASA orbiter has caught images of the landing site.
February 13, 2019
A tale of 2 colliding exoplanets
Astronomers have new evidence for a collision between 2 nearly Earth-sized planets in the distant solar system Kepler-107.
February 10, 2019
Much of Earth’s surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century
A new MIT study shows how changing colors of Earth's oceans can be used to monitor climate change in the relatively near future.
February 7, 2019
A plan to create artificial meteors
Everyone loves a good meteor shower, but what about an artificial one? A Japanese company plans to create one and has just launched hundreds of pellets to space. They'll ultimately rain down again in colorful displays.
February 5, 2019
Is this ancient moon rock from Earth?
An intriguing ancient rock found on the moon and brought back by the Apollo 14 mission may actually have originated from Earth, a new study says.
February 3, 2019
How Titan cooked its atmosphere
Saturn's largest moon Titan has a thick nitrogen atmosphere - unique among all the moons in the solar system. A new study suggests Titan's atmosphere originated from organics being "cooked" in its interior.
January 29, 2019
Can moons have moons?
A new study shows that Earth's moon should, theoretically, be able to have its own moon. Why doesn't it?
January 26, 2019
