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AERONET: Ensuring quality satellite data for mineral exploration
In October of 1957, the USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite into orbit around Earth. Today, we're combining Earth observation with image processing in the search for mineral resources.
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Getting to know 3I/ATLAS, our solar system's newest interstellar visitor
A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the discovery of just the third known interstellar object to visit our solar system on July 3.
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Study finds link between Grand Canyon landslide and Meteor Crater impact
Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with their co‐authors, links ...
Space Exploration
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Rare distant object 2020 VN40 found in perfect sync with Neptune
A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, that is moving in rhythm with the giant planet. ...
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A lunar base could start with a dome over a crater made of regolith
When the first astronauts walked on the moon as part of the Apollo Program, the concept of lunar habitats ceased being the stuff of science fiction and became a matter of scientific study. With several space agencies planning ...
Space Exploration
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Earth was born with water—no delivery needed
Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth would be just another ...
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This Earth-sized exoplanet is on a death spiral
Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is really like. But our blue-skied, temperate planet is the extreme exception when it comes to other worlds. ...
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Research shows path toward protocells on Saturn's moon Titan
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn's moon Titan.
Astrobiology
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Scores of exoplanets may be larger than realized
In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much larger than previously thought. It's a finding that could change which distant worlds researchers consider ...
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Solar gravitational lens telescope is feasible way to get high resolution pictures of habitable exoplanet, study shows
Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources away from the one you care about. In the scientific community, one of the most devastating ways you ...
Astronomy
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Scientists resolve Uranus heat puzzle, revealing lingering internal warmth
A new study led by University of Houston researchers, in collaboration with planetary scientists worldwide, suggests Uranus does have its own internal heat—an advance that not only informs NASA's future missions but also ...
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Primordial black hole flybys could alter exoplanet orbits
Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the balance. Anything with enough mass that got close enough could disrupt planetary orbits. This includes ...
Astronomy
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Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth's technologies
The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on—electric grids, aviation and telecommunications—are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather.
Space Exploration
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Astronomers find a giant hiding in the 'fog' around a young star
Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star.
Astronomy
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3I/ATLAS: Scientific paper details what's known about the third-ever interstellar object
When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the third of its kind ever known, astronomers at Michigan State University—along with a team of international ...
Astronomy
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3I/ATLAS: Interstellar object 'may be oldest comet ever seen'
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar system by more than 3 billion years, researchers say.
Astronomy
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Dune patterns in California desert hold clues that help researchers map Mars' shifting sands
Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, to the Algodones Dunes, ...
Planetary Sciences
Jul 10, 2025
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Earth's 'oldest' impact crater is much younger than previously thought
Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread. Unraveling Earth's 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business.
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Finding an ocean on an exoplanet would be huge, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory could do it
On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When scientists find exoplanets around distant stars, a primary consideration is if they're in the stars' ...
Astrobiology
Jul 10, 2025
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This planet makes its star flare and the planet suffers because of it
Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are close to the star, these ...
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New genus and species of mole identified from fossil discovered at the Camp dels Ninots site
Scientists detect new 'quantum echo' in superconducting materials
