The closest potentially Earth-like exoplanet probably can't host life
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
Scientists Discover New Phase of Matter That's a Song of Ice and Fire
The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron spins—half of which are highly ordered, or "cold", and the rest of ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe: The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Just Skimmed the Sun at 430,000 MPH
NASA's Parker Solar Probe just screamed past the Sun for the 23rd time, once again matching its own records for closest ...
Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2
The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...
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Paralyzed man can stand again after receiving stem cell treatment in Japan
For years, a Japanese man lay motionless, paralyzed from the neck down after a devastating spinal cord injury. Doctors ...
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Perseverance Paves Way for Mars Astronaut Prep
At left is NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, with a circle indicating the location of the calibration target for the rover's ...
Magnetic 'microflowers' enhance local magnetic fields
A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometers in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance ...
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Magnetic 'microflowers' enhance local magnetic fields
(a) Schematic illustration of a typical magnetic metasurface used for magnetic field concentration indicating the main geometrical parameters and the applied magnetic field orientation. (b) False ...