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How Are Exoplanets Detected?
Astronomers detect exoplanets through transits, stellar wobble, direct imaging, microlensing, astrometry and timing signals, then use follow-up observations to rule out…
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How Do Astronomers Detect Exoplanets?
Astronomers usually detect exoplanets indirectly, by measuring how a planet changes the light, motion, or gravitational behavior of its host star.
Discover science
Ancient ocean floor discovered surrounding Earth's core
Scientists have found an ancient ocean floor deep inside the Earth with mountains five times taller than Mount Everest through seismic data.
Discover science
Shocking Research: It's Possible to Stop Time
According to researchers, time can be stopped. This revelation has caused much surprise and at the same time brought hope to people with the wish of time travel at some…
Space science
The Milky Way seems to have become an invisible cage to humanity!
After thousands of years of development, humans have become the top of the Earth's food chain. People are increasingly curious about the vast universe.
Discover science
How fast do UFOs go? Scientists have given clues
Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are real and we now know how fast they go.
Space science
The most terrifying 'cannonball' ever flew past NASA's telescope
NASA has just released unique images of IC 3225, a giant object that is behaving unusually 100 million light years from Earth.
Space science
'9th Planet' Theia revealed just inside Earth
Scientists say the mysterious mass of material found deep in the Earth's core is the remains of an ancient planet that collided with Earth billions of years ago.
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Earth's ancient secrets revealed at the bottom of the Philippine sea
A 50-million-year-old geological treasure buried beneath the Philippine Sea Plate preserves fascinating data about the Earth's mantle.
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The Earth's core shows signs of leaking in Hawaii
The mystery of the 'ultra-low-velocity zone' - a mysterious mass of matter located in the deep mantle of the Earth that seismic waves seem to be 'tied' when traveling ho…
Biology
If you drop an ant from the 63rd floor, will it die?
The answer depends on the final velocity of the free fall.
Conquer Mars
NASA robot captures drifting clouds on Mars
During its 3,325th day on Mars, the Curiosity robot uses special imaging techniques to observe clouds and measure drift velocity.
Space science
In the belly of the Earth there is a 'hell' born from another planet
Australian scientists have come up with a shocking explanation for the extremely low-velocity region inside the Earth - another world with a giant ocean of magma, made u…
Discover science
Discover giant structure near the Earth's core
The researchers found an unusually large structure of dense hot rock hidden deep within the Earth, below the Pacific Ocean.
Discover science
What happens when time stops?
The concept of time condensation appears in movies quite a lot. However, condensing time from a scientific perspective is not as romantic as in movies.