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The Unpredictable June Bootids
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (160+ words) The June Bootid meteor shower is active each year from June 26th until July 2nd. It peaks on June 27th. Normally the shower is very weak, but occasional outbursts produce a hundred or more meteors per hour. The shower's radiant lies in the…...
Meteorite reveals a lost moon-sized world from the dawn of the solar system
2+ hour, 40+ min ago (373+ words) A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from dramatically different materials than Earth and Mars, rewriting…...
At its birth, Earth had no Moon. Then something perhaps the size of Mars slammed into the young planet, flinging molten debris into orbit that became the companion world now pulling our tides, steadying our seasons, and perhaps helping make Earth stable enough for life to flourish.
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The Overview Effect. The world as we know it has been" | by Elsawang | Jun, 2026
6+ hour, 46+ min ago (607+ words) The world as we know it has been forever changed by space exploration. From the space race, the first man on the moon, to the Artemis II'Continue reading on Medium " The world as we know it has been forever changed…...
Scientists Discover Salty Clouds On the Mysterious Pink Planet
12+ hour, 23+ min ago (190+ words) JWST read GJ 504 b's atmosphere in two hours, confirming salt clouds theorists had predicted for 15 years The atmosphere's chemistry only made sense once researchers added clouds of potassium chloride and zinc sulfide to their models. Salt clouds weren't an exotic…...
Famous Pink Planet Mystery Decoded: JWST Says Salt Clouds are the Culprit
14+ hour, 3+ min ago (493+ words) This Magenta world's strange atmosphere made no sense until JWST found intriguing clouds made of salt....
Artemis III: America Already Went to the Moon. It Has to Relearn Almost Everything to Go Back, and China Is Right Behind
14+ hour, 17+ min ago (843+ words) America already landed on the Moon, then threw away the technology to return. Now it's rebuilding that capability from scratch, with China racing for the same ground....
The Hottest Known Exoplanets May Hold Clues to Planetary Habitability
19+ hour, 5+ min ago (28+ words) The first direct measurements of exoplanet magnetic fields reveal that ultra-hot Jupiters possess strong magnetism that shapes their atmospheres and may provide new insights into planetary habitability....
Asteroid Donaldjohanson is Wobbly, Peanut-Shaped Object with Watery Past, Scientists Say | Sci. News
15+ hour, 23+ min ago (120+ words) The main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, a heavily cratered fragment born from a catastrophic breakup 155 million years ago, appears to wobble through space while preserving clues to the migration of water-rich worlds in the early Solar System, according to a new analysis…...
Webb Sees Jupiter-Size Exoplanet Being Roasted by Its Star | Sci. News
16+ hour, 44+ min ago (34+ words) HD 80606b has one of the most extreme orbits of any known exoplanet and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope just caught it getting flash-fried as it whipped past its star....