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Have we been measuring mountains all wrong?

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

How NASA's Roman mission will unveil our home galaxy using cosmic dust

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...
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Forget supercomputers — scientists say a laptop could map the universe in minutes

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...
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Mysterious changes near Earth’s core revealed by satellites in space

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...

44 million Milky Way stars glimmer in galaxy’s largest 3D map

The Gaia space observatory helped astronomers chart 4,000 light-years worth of our home galaxy.

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust have captured the movement of the Milky Way’s spiral arms

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

A spacecraft could explore 3I/ATLAS to learn more about 'cosmic noon'

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...
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Rare comet photobombs telescope’s view of the cosmos

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from outside the Solar System, might have been spewing gases for months ...
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Interstellar visitors like comet 3I/ATLAS are the most common objects in the Milky Way: 'There's almost always one within the solar system'

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...