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Category: Space

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Abnormally high plume observed above surface of Mars

Posted on February 20, 2015June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

Plumes seen reaching high above the surface of Mars are causing a stir among scientists studying the atmosphere on the Red Planet On two…

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    How Long Will Human Civilization Last?

    Posted on December 5, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

    Human-caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to…

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      Stray stars between galaxies add to the cosmic light in the universe

      Posted on November 9, 2014June 24, 2025 by Sciworthy

      Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers at Caltech and their colleagues have detected a diffuse…

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        First detection of dark matter

        Posted on October 20, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

        Cutting-edge paper by Professor George Fraser — who tragically died in March this year — and colleagues at the University of…

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          Huge galaxies grow by eating nearby smaller ones

          Posted on September 25, 2014June 24, 2025 by Sciworthy

          Massive galaxies in the Universe have stopped making their own stars and are instead snacking on nearby galaxies, according to research by…

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            Clear skies and water detected in Neptune-sized exoplanet

            Posted on September 24, 2014June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

            Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Kepler Space Telescope have discovered…

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              Oxygen alone may not be enough to detect life on exoplanets

              Posted on September 13, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

              Astronomers searching the atmospheres of alien worlds or exoplants for gases that might be produced by life can’t rely on the…

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                Milky Way belongs to supercluster of galaxies named Laniakea

                Posted on September 11, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) — among other telescopes — have determined…

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                  Farside of the moon is like thick crust pizza with craters

                  Posted on June 16, 2014October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

                  55-year old dark side of the moon mystery solved The Man in the Moon appeared when meteoroids struck the Earth-facing side of the moon…

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