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Fermi Paradox: Astronomers Keep Finding Earth-Like Worlds.
22+ min ago (28+ words) Why Haven’t We Found Anyone Living on Them? — WhatIfScience With every Earth-like planet discovered, the odds of life elsewhere seem to …...
A molecular-hydrogen cloud only 300 light-years away spans roughly 40 full-Moon widths across our sky, yet astronomers did not identify it until 2025. Named Eos, it escaped conventional surveys because they search for molecular hydrogen indirectly through carbon monoxide—and almost all of Eos is CO-dark.
5+ hour, 25+ min ago (858+ words) Eos covers about 20 degrees of sky, but almost all its estimated 3,400 solar masses of molecular hydrogen escaped the carbon-monoxide surveys normally used to find such clouds....
A Cosmic Catastrophe May Have Turned Neptune’s Ancient Moons Inside Out
10+ hour, 13+ min ago (962+ words) In 1989, Voyager 2 discovered six previously unknown moons around Neptune. Five of them are tiny satellites that travel just beyond the planet’s main rings. Their small size and great distance from Earth have made them especially difficult to study in detail....
Is This the First Exomoon
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (1676+ words) For decades, astronomers have been looking for moons beyond our Solar System. Several exomoon candidates have been proposed, but none has become an unambiguous, confirmed example. In a recent SETI Live conversation, host Dr. Franck Marchis spoke with Universidad Diego…...
Scientists Forced Water Into a Bizarre New State of Matter That May Explain Uranus and Neptune’s Strange Mgnetic Fields
11+ hour, 40+ min ago (575+ words) What happens to water when the usual rules no longer seem to apply? Scientists have recreated extraordinary conditions in the lab, uncovering a state of matter that could be hiding deep inside distant planets. Scientists have created a bizarre type…...
Meteorite Grains Preserve Evidence of a Magnetic Field in the Infant Solar System — Curiosmos
19+ hour, 24+ min ago (251+ words) Tiny minerals inside one of the most pristine meteorites ever found still carry a record of magnetism from the solar system’s first 200,000 years. Tiny mineral grains inside an Antarctic meteorite may preserve the oldest evidence yet of a magnetic field…...
Help Refine Data from Space Telescopes with Artifact InSPECtor
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (186+ words) How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA project, Artifact InSPECtor, invites you to find out – and by doing so, to…...
Frozen object beyond Jupiter is transforming into a comet
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1029+ words) A frozen object beyond Jupiter is venting carbon dioxide gas into space, revealing what can drive activity so far from the sun. A centaur, one of the icy bodies that orbit beyond Jupiter, has started venting gas into space, even…...
Violent Planetary Engulfment May Be Common Across Cosmos | Space
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (368+ words) Violent Planetary Engulfment May Be Common Across Cosmos Labroots Violent Planetary Engulfment May Be Common Across Cosmos How can astronomers identify when stars have consumed planets? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as…...