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5/13/19
Shrinking Moon May Be Generating Moonquakes
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, causing the brittle surface crust to break as the Moon shrinks, forming faults where one section of crust is pushed up over a neighboring part. A new analysis gives the first evidence that these faults are still active and likely producing moonquakes today.
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5/13/19
What is a time warp and where could we find one?
The idea that time can be warped was proposed by Albert Einstein.
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5/20/19
Billion-Dollar Gamble: How A 'Singular Hero' Helped Start A New Field In Physics
In the 1970s, Rich Isaacson was presented with what seemed like a crazy idea: using lasers to detect gravitational waves. It became the biggest project the National Science Foundation had ever funded.
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5/30/19
'Forbidden' planet challenging astronomers' understanding of solar systems
The gaseous exoplanet is three times the size of Earth, has a temperature of 1,000 degrees and an orbit of just 1.3 days around its star. But it shouldn't exist, astronomers say.
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6/7/19
Cosmic bridge reveals first evidence of magnetic fields between galaxy clusters
Astrophysicists discover a giant ridge of plasma emitting radio waves that connects two galaxy clusters 10 million light years apart.
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6/9/19
Jupiter is so close this week you'll be able to see its moons. Here's how to spot our giant neighbor.
A photo of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope with the gas giant's Great Red Spot clearly visible. Jupiter will be at its biggest and brightest in our sky this week, giving those on Earth our best chance of the year to see the gas giant and four of its moons. Jupiter -- our solar system's largest planet -- will be at its closest point to Earth on Monday, June 10, according to NASA. It will...
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6/10/19
A new candidate for dark matter and a way to detect it
A simulation of the large-scale structure of the universe with filaments of dark matter in blue and places of galaxy formation in yellow. Dark matter cannot yet be detected directly. UC Davis physicists have proposed a new model to explain it. Credit: Zarija Lukic/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Two theoretical physicists at the University of California, Davis have a new candidate for dark...
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6/17/19
How do you catch something smaller than an atom that's travelled across galaxies?
Scientists in Japan are hoping 11,000 huge 'lightbulbs' in a tank deep underground will help capture clues to the origins of life. Step inside Super Kamiokande.
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6/23/19
'It sounded like a huge bomb': Queenslanders amazed as meteor lights up night sky
Hundreds of people across southern and central Queensland report seeing a spectacular meteor burning up in the atmosphere north of Brisbane last night.
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