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Iron Snow Could Explain the Magnetic Fields at Worlds Like Ganymede

Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, features a surprisingly strong magnetic field for its size. Tidal effects from Jupiter continually...

After all of This Time Searching for Aliens, Are We Stuck With The Zoo Hypothesis?

In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory , famed physicist Enrico Fermi...

How a Small Town in Japan Fiercely Defends its Dark Skies

Light pollution ruins dark skies. It’s a scourge that ground-based observatories have to deal with in one form...

How Supersymmetry Saved String Theory

String theory, like most revolutions, had humble origins. It started all the way back in the 1960’s as...

NASA Tightbeams a Cat Video From 31 Million Kilometers Away

NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) has been responsible for maintaining contact with missions venturing beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO)...

Lost In Space? Just Use Relativity

One of the hardest things for many people to conceptualize when talking about how fast something is going is...

Can Webb Find the First Stars in the Universe?

The Universe’s very first stars had an important job. They formed from the primordial elements created by the...

Webb Finds Icy Complex Organic Molecules Around Protostars: Ethanol, Methane, Formaldehyde, Formic Acid and Much More

In the quest to understand how and where life might arise in the galaxy, astronomers search for its building...

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