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Zero-down mortgages are making a comeback
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 1 day agoMany Americans would love to buy a home, but they don’t have tens of thousands of dollars to cover a down payment. That massive roadblock is being...
Astronomers identify most likely habitable Earthlike planet yet that no-one reading this will ever...
Boing Boing· 6 days agoGliese 12b orbits a red dwarf 40 light years again and is reportedly the most promising candidate...
The 8 most extraordinary JWST images of 2024, so far
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNearly one million miles away from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope studies the cosmos. Since launching on December 25, 2021, JWST has provided...
A Groundbreaking Scientific Discovery Just Gave Humanity the Keys to Interstellar Travel
Popular Mechanics· 2 days agoThis sci-fi mode of practical interstellar travel, which television audiences first saw in 1966,...
Elusive medium-size black holes may form in dense 'birthing nests'
SPACE.com· 23 hours agoAn intermediate-mass black hole has a mass between 100 and 10,000 suns. Designated GCIRS 13E, it has...
‘Profound’ Moment As Webb Sees Most Distant Galaxy Close To ‘Big Bang’
Forbes· 15 hours agoNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has broken its own record by discovering a galaxy just 290 million light-years from the “big bang” that is thought to have created the universe. The previous ...
Webb Telescope’s Breakthrough: First Atmospheric Discovery on a Rocky Super-Earth
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoGas bubbling up from a lava-covered surface on the exoplanet 55 Cancri e may feed an atmosphere rich...
Network of Robotic Telescopes Finds New Earth-Sized World Orbiting an Ultra-Cool Star
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoAstronomers have discovered an Earth-sized planet, SPECULOOS-3 b, orbiting an ultra-cool red dwarf star just 55 light years away. This tidally locked planet, which completes an orbit every 17 ...
How we can understand our universe through math
Astronomy Magazine· 4 hours agoIn the past quarter century, astronomical observations have led to discoveries that have literally transformed our conception of the universe. One such...
The ultimate cosmic weapon? A simple triangle
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 10 hours ago“These are small,” says Father Ted in the eponymous sitcom, holding up a pair of toy cows. “But the ones out there,” he explains to Father Dougal,...
