Search results for Planet Nine

Planetary Sciences Aug 31, 2023

Scientists detect and validate the longest-period exoplanets found with TESS

Scientists from The University of New Mexico (UNM), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have detected and validated two of the longest-period exoplanets found by TESS to date. These long period large exoplanets ...

Space Exploration Aug 23, 2023

Long wait nearly over for Psyche asteroid probe's Space Coast launch

Just off a tree-covered side road past businesses selling boats and fishing gear sits a fenced-off building that's home to a $700 million satellite nearly ready for launch. Its mission: To study the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, ...

Environment Aug 17, 2023

It is not just heat waves—climate change is also a crisis of disconnection

Climate change is widely recognized by the scientific community as "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century."

Ecology Aug 5, 2023

About 1 in 3 vertebrate species is used, eaten or traded by humans, study finds

A cheetah pouncing on a gazelle. A bear snatching a fish out of the water with its claws. And the most dangerous predator of them all? A human and their pet bird dancing to Gangnam Style.

Space Exploration Jul 31, 2023

NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle continues progress toward Mars sample return

The first rocket launch from the surface of another planet will be accomplished using two solid rocket motors.

Environment Jul 27, 2023

Blurring the line between planetary and human health spans

Days before the G7 Hiroshima Summit in May, scholars delivered a call to act on the planet's health to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, a monument to atomic weapons' apocalyptic threat that shook Albert Einstein to utter ...

Space Exploration Jul 19, 2023

New study reveals NASA's Roman could find 400 Earth-mass rogue planets

New research by scientists from NASA and Japan's Osaka University suggests that rogue planets—worlds that drift through space untethered to a star—far outnumber planets that orbit stars. The results imply that NASA's ...

Earth Sciences Jul 10, 2023

How the weight of the world fell on one geologist's shoulders

In 1981, newly minted palaeobiologist Jan Zalasiewicz assumed he was headed for a discreet career retrieving and deciphering fossils from Earth's deep past.

Environment Jul 6, 2023

Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth. Wednesday may break it.

The planet's temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high. It's the latest in a series ...

Environment Jul 5, 2023

Monday may have set a global record for the hottest day ever. Tuesday broke it

The entire planet sweltered for the two unofficial hottest days in human recordkeeping Monday and Tuesday, according to University of Maine scientists at the Climate Reanalyzer project.

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