Mind the seismic gap: Understanding earthquake types in Guerrero, Mexico
Plate temperature and water release can explain the occurrence of different types of earthquakes in Guerrera, Mexico. A Kobe ...
Humans Could Orbit Earth’s Poles for the First Time Today. What Took So Long?
The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...
European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill
The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is ...
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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.
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Watch: Europe's first orbital launch ends with a bang
Continental Europe's first attempt at an orbital space launch ended shorter than expected after Isar Aerospace's Spectrum ...
The Next Web17h
Orbital rocket launches from Western Europe for first time
German startup Isar Aerospace has successfully launched its Spectrum rocket from Norway, boosting Europe’s independent access ...
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The One Area On Earth's Surface That Has The Weakest Gravitational Pull
Contrary to what you may intuit, the Earth's gravity isn't uniform, and there's one place where it's much weaker than anyone ...
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The Ghosts in the Rainbow: How Prisms Unlock the Universe’s Chemistry
As the world contemplates the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, I am reminded that we’re not the only generation to ...
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2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
The Republic3d
Earth’s storage of water in soil, lakes and rivers is dwindling. And it’s especially bad for farming
University of Melbourne hydrology professor Dongryeol Ryu and his collaborator Ki-Weon Seo were on a train to visit Ryu’s ...
NASA Reveals 5 Million Images of Gravity Waves Rippling Through Earth’s Sky
NASA’s AWE mission just released millions of gravity wave images from space, unveiling atmospheric forces that ripple through ...
Black holes and the new way astronomers using Gaia probe found the closest known to Earth
There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.