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Astronomers find 60 Dyson sphere candidates, among millions of searched stars
Two teams of astronomers in Europe say they have found 60 Dyson sphere candidates. Are they alien megastructures or a previously unknown natural phenomenon?
May 15, 2024
Possible atmosphere on rocky exoplanet found for 1st time
NASA's Webb telescope has tentatively detected an atmosphere on rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e, a hot super-Earth world only 41 light-years away.
May 14, 2024
Rare neutrinos detected from under Antarctic ice
Scientists extract 7 rare neutrinos - energetic tau neutrinos - from about 10 years of data from the IceCube observatory at the South Pole.
May 12, 2024
Plunge into a black hole in this new video
Plunge into a black hole in this new video from NASA. See what it would look like to cross the event horizon of a supermassive black hole.
May 10, 2024
How did water on Venus disappear? Blame this molecule
Venus is a near-twin to Earth in size and mass. But what happened to all the water on Venus, which scientists say once existed?
May 9, 2024
M87’s jet has a double-helix structure from a black hole
M87's jet - a black-hole-powerd stream of sub-atomic particles - streaming outward some 8,000 light-years, traveling at near-light-speed. It's corkscrew-shaped!
May 8, 2024
Exoplanet WASP-43 b weather is hot and wild
NASA's Webb telescope has mapped the weather on WASP-43 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet 283 light-years away. It's blistering hot with 5,000-mile-per-hour winds.
May 5, 2024
Did Webb find signs of life on exoplanet K2-18 b?
NASA's Webb telescope looked at the sub-Neptune exoplanet K2-18 b. It found methane, carbon dioxide, a possible ocean, and even ... maybe ... a biosignature.
May 2, 2024
The strange case of methane on Mars: Possible new answers
New experiments show that methane on Mars, in Gale crater, may seep out of the ground when hard crusts of perchlorate salt temporarily warm up and weaken.
May 2, 2024
See the Martian spiders of Inca City in new images
Martian spiders? Inca City? Both geologic features on Mars. The European Space Agency (ESA) just released new images of them. Take a look!
May 2, 2024
