Lab-based mimicry allowed an international team of physicists to probe hydrogen under the conditions found in the interiors of giant planets — where experts believe it gets squeezed until it …read more Source:: Science
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Astronomers find a famous exoplanet’s doppelganger
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•A new planet has been imaged, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied gas-giant planets. But this doppelganger differs in one very important way: Its origin. …read more Source:: Science
Earth’s orbital changes have influenced climate, life forms for at least 215 million years
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•Every 405,000 years, gravitational tugs from Jupiter and Venus slightly elongate Earth’s orbit, an amazingly consistent pattern that has influenced our planet’s climate for at least 215 million years and …read more Source:: Science
Clear as mud: Desiccation cracks help reveal the shape of water on Mars
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•As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet’s watery past comes into clearer focus. …read more Source:: Science
Meteorite diamonds tell of a lost planet
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•Scientists have examined a slice from a meteorite that contains large diamonds formed at high pressure. The study shows that the parent body from which the meteorite came was a …read more Source:: Science
Rise in severity of hottest days outpaces global average temperature increase
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•While our planet’s average annual temperature has increased at a steady pace in recent decades, there has been an alarming jump in the severity of the hottest days of the …read more Source:: Science
Electrical and chemical coupling between Saturn and its rings
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•A Langmuir probe, flown to Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft, has made exciting discoveries in the atmosphere of the planet. They discovered that there is a strong coupling, both chemically …read more Source:: Science
Mars study yields clues to possible cradle of life
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•The discovery of evidence for ancient sea-floor hydrothermal deposits on Mars identifies an area on the planet that may offer clues about the origin of life on Earth. The research …read more Source:: Science
The volatile processes that shaped Earth
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•Although it is widely understood that Earth was formed gradually, from much smaller bodies, many of the processes involved in shaping our growing planet are less clear. Astronomers have now …read more Source:: Science
The return of the comet-like exoplanet
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•Astronomers have focused the Hubble Space Telescope on an exoplanet that had already been seen losing its atmosphere, which forms an enormous cloud of hydrogen, giving the planet the appearance …read more Source:: Science