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Extremely rare new planet revealed, 1 year equals 21 Earth hours
TOI-3261b is located in the constellation Hydrus and belongs to a class of planets that were thought impossible to form.
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How many planets are there in the universe?
Astronomers estimate there are about 100,000 trillion billion planets in the universe based on the assumption that every star has a planet orbiting it.
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James Webb Telescope Reveals Secrets of the Universe: Was the Big Bang Just a Man's Imagination?
How did the universe come into being? This is one of the oldest and most intractable questions in human history.
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What matter on Earth can get close to the Sun without melting?
Many people might think that tungsten is the substance with the highest melting point on our planet, but that is not the case at all.
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Identify places that may be flooded with aliens
American scientists have identified special star systems where up to one-third of the planets could be filled with water and life, not just a single Earth like in the So…
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The outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy have been shaken by an unknown force, causing strange tremors.
In the journey of exploring the universe, each new discovery brings unique perspectives and sometimes, heated debates within the scientific community.
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Strange object the size of Earth appears on Jupiter
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, planetary scientists observed dark oval-shaped objects appearing on Jupiter.
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On Earth, a compass always points north – but where does it point in space?
On Earth, our planet's magnetic field points north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.
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James Webb Space Telescope Gets Clearest Image of Neptune in 32 Years
NASA on September 21 released the first image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of Neptune, the giant ice planet in the Solar System.
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'Excavating' the unthinkable: 9 billion year old 'light fossil'
A timeless treasure that surpasses all previous records has been unearthed by Canadian scientists in James Webb's astonishing archive: A near-missed fossil of light.
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Could our entire universe be inside a black hole?
What if we - and our entire universe - were inside a black hole?
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What's inside the Sun if humans successfully land on it?
Scientists believe that in the future, with the development of science and technology, we will be able to reach the Sun.
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Rapid discovery, scientists are closer to identifying dark matter
New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector have narrowed down the range of particles known as WIMPs to the best ever.
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How to distinguish meteorites from ordinary rocks
Meteorites are often particularly heavy, magnetic, and bear characteristic marks from being heated as they plunged into the atmosphere.