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Lightning Signature Could Reveal Solar System’s Origins
Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce and get stronger, creating electromagnetic waves...
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Dark Matter Theories Challenged By Satellite Galaxy Discovery
A sprawling collection of galaxies and star clusters surrounding our own Milky Way is challenging long-standing theories on the...
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Solar Storms Present a Growing Threat
Geomagnetic storms generated by the interaction between the electrically charged solar particles and the earth’s own magnetic field could...
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Odds of Finding Alien Life Boosted By Billions of Habitable Worlds
A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy...
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Dark Matter May Be Colliding With Atoms Inside You Right Now
Invisible dark matter particles may regularly pass through our bodies, and dozens to thousands of these particles may be...
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Sun-Like Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System
A star already known to host five alien planets may actually be home to a whopping nine full-fledged worlds...
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Did Exploding Stars Help Life On Earth Thrive?
Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars – supernovae – near the Solar System...
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A Quixotic Quest to Mine Asteroids
A new company backed by two Google Inc. billionaires, film director James Cameron and other space exploration proponents is...
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How Big Data Is Changing Astronomy
Think of all the data humans have collected over the long history of astronomy, from the cuneiform tablets of...
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We Have No Idea How Bad Solar Storms Might Get
When the sun really acts up, spewing out heaps of charged particles in a burst called a coronal mass...