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Large asteroid stronger than Nook heading to Earth late December the Jerusalem Post Five ‘close approach’ asteroids will turn past Earth on Thanksgiving – one is bigger than the statue of Li … the sun Four asteroids to accelerate Earth on Thanksgiving, with one bigger than a football field Newsweek See full coverage on Google News Source link

An artist painting by InSight Lander on Mars. InSight, short for interior exploration using seismic investigations, geodesy and heat transport, is designed to give the red planet its first thorough control since it was founded 4.5 billion years ago. The mission looks for tectonic activity and meteorite effects, studies how much heat is still flowing across the planet, and observes …

After years of painstaking work, we homed to bring the total of confirmed exoplanets – planets outside the solar system – to a watching 5,000. In a major new part for Exoplanet studies, a team of astronomers has identified 366 previously unknown potential exoplanets in data from the retired Kepler space telescope. The key was the development of an algorithm …

The FASER particle detector that received CERN approval to be installed in the large hadron collider in 2019, was recently reinforced with an instrument to detect neutrinos. The UCI-led FASER team used a smaller detector of the same type in 2018 to make the first observations of the elusive particles generated by a collider. The new instrument will be able …

The FASER particle detector that received CERN approval to be installed in the large hadron collider in 2019, was recently reinforced with an instrument to detect neutrinos. The UCI-led FASER team used a smaller detector of the same type in 2018 to make the first observations of the elusive particles generated by a collider. The new instrument will be able …

Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Tan (Chalmers University of Technology); Processing; Gladys Cober (NASA / Catholic University of America) The Prawn Nebula is a massive stellar nursery located in the constellation Scorpius, about 6,000 light-years from Earth. Although the nebula stretches 250 light-years and covers a space four times the size of the full moon, it provides light primarily at …

The deformed nucleus of zirconium-80 is lighter than the sum of the masses of its 40 protons and 40 neutrons. The missing mass is converted into binding energy by E = MC2. The binding energy is responsible for holding the nucleus together. Credit: facility for rare isotope beams A team of researchers, including scientists from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory …

Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain Scientists have developed new materials for the next-generation electronics so tiny that they are not only indistinguishable when tightly packed, but they also reflect insufficient light to show fine details, such as colors, with even the most powerful optical microscopes. Under an optical microscope, carbon nanotubes, for example, look gray. The inability to distinguish …

2-million-year-old bones shed light on human spine the Jerusalem Post Australopithecus sediba comfortably walks on two legs, but can climb as imitation Sci-News.com Spinal missing link is discovered unifying apes, Neanderthals and us ancient origins Ancient man relative “walked like a man, but climbed like an ape” Heritage daily The ancient man relative ‘walked as a man, but claimed as …

Interview ESA’s solar orbiter is to take a fly-by of the Earth, requiring a careful assessment of debris when it dips close to the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) ahead of its main science mission. The fly-by is due to take place on the 26th and 27th of November. The amount of debris on orbit was helpfully increased …