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Venus Might Still Have Active Volcanoes, as Recent Lava Flows Suggest 'Ongoing' Eruptions
Smithsonian Magazine· 5 days agoScientists have uncovered evidence of recent volcanic activity on the surface of Venus in archival data from the 1990s, suggesting eruptions may be “ongoing.” The findings support the theory ...
Next-Generation Radar Will Map Threatening Asteroids
Universe Today· 4 days agoWhen the Arecibo Observatory dish in Puerto Rico collapsed in 2020, astronomers lost a powerful radio telescope and a unique radar instrument to map the...
Is Pluto a planet? It depends.
Astronomy Magazine· 6 days agoAstronomy.com: We were going to write something new about Pluto here. In 1930 a young astronomer from Kansas, employed as an observer at Lowell...
Astrophysicists Detect Potential Collisional Dark Matter in “El Gordo”
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoA new study indicates that dark matter in the “El Gordo” galaxy cluster exhibits collisional...
Network of Robotic Telescopes Finds New Earth-Sized World Orbiting an Ultra-Cool Star
SciTechDaily· 7 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 ...
The Space Review: Why planetary protection matters to the future of space exploration
The Space Review· 7 days agoWith the possible exception of a few early Soviet probes, all others were sterilized before leaving...
Vigil space weather satellite to be built by Airbus
Electronics Weekly· 7 days agoThe space weather forecasting satellite Vigil will be designed and built by Airbus, announces the European Space Agency.
Newly Discovered 'Exo-Venus' Could Be Habitable
ExtremeTech· 7 days agoTwo international teams of astronomers report that Gliese 12 b is about the size of Venus, and early calculations suggest it could have a temperate environment that would allow for liquid water ...
NASA to study heat from North and South poles that could drive Bay Area sea level rise
ABC7 News· 5 days agoTurns out, if you want to understand the future of Earth's climate, you need to measure it from top...
With new, sharper optics, Arizona telescope captures rare images of Jupiter's moon Io - Berkeley...
UC Berkeley NewsCenter· 4 days agoSince 1979, when Jupiter’s moon Io was found to be pockmarked with volcanoes, astronomers and...
