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An interstellar cloud may have caused an ice age on Earth. Here's how
SPACE.com· 2 days agoScientists believe Earth may have briefly lost protection from the sun around two million years ago,...
Cosmic cloud exposed Earth to interstellar space 3 million years ago
New Scientist· 4 days agoBetween 2 million and 3 million years ago, the solar system encountered turbulence on a galactic...
Ed Stone, JPL director and top scientist on Voyager mission, dies at 88
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoEd Stone, who guided NASA's breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets and led the Jet...
Astronomers Await Rare Cosmic Explosion Set to Occur This Summer
ExtremeTech· 15 hours agoThe night sky will appear to gain a new star this summer when T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB, undergoes its first nova in this millennium. For a few days, skygazers can spot T CrB without binoculars ...
Lone Star State: Tracking a Low-Mass Star as it Sp | Newswise
Newswise· 4 days agoMore remarkably, this star may be on a trajectory that causes it to leave the Milky Way altogether....
Amateur astronomers confirm 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet
Astronomy Magazine· 7 days agoNASA’s TESS satellite has identified a treasure trove of potential exoplanets, but those initial detections require detailed follow-ups to confirm. Now a...
Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAn interstellar probe could help scientists answer fundamental questions about how the Sun...
SpaceX retrieves space junk from Saskatchewan farmer’s field
Houston Today· 2 days agoTwo men with SpaceX descended on a Saskatchewan farm in a moving truck Tuesday to retrieve cosmic...
Webb Telescope Uncovers a Mysterious Carbon Treasure Trove Around Young Star
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoUsing the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a rich variety of carbon molecules in a protoplanetary disk around a low-mass star, suggesting a unique type of planet-forming ...
A Radio Telescope Captured the Noise Humanity Leaks Into Space
Inverse· 3 days agoA radio telescope on its way to the Moon captured a “selfie” of our planet’s radio waves, updating a...