MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that’s not looking likely anymore.
3I/ATLAS is heading away from the sun on an escape trajectory from our solar system.
Antarctica’s subglacial bedrock was previously one of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system.
“Without Mars, Earth’s orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if Mars weren’t there?”
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The image shows just how large and devastating these events can be.
“This is a structure we’ve never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object.”
“If they were purely made up of stars, they would be the densest galaxies in the universe.”
“Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries.”
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“We’re seeing what could be described as an energetic tug-of-war inside the black hole’s accretion flow.”
The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold.
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