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Aliens could be living inside Jupiter’s moon Europa
According to the planetary scientist known as Mohit Melwani Daswani of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA , the study leader, said that they think that Europa's own oceans may have actually been habitable early when it previously formed due to their models showing the ocean's own compositions that may have been acidic but only mildly, containing some sulfate salts and carbon dioxide. [Full Article...]
Years of Searches: Scientists Discover Exoplanet That is 8% Larger Than Neptune
There are very few known star systems like AU Mic, so this is a significant discovery for the team of scientists who will be carrying on further studies . However, AU Mic b weighs less than 58 times Earth's mass. The planet AU Mic b nearly hugs its star, completing an orbit every eight-and-a-half days. [Full Article...]
Facebook seeks to offer more 'context' on coronavirus posts
As part of the change, when a user clicks the "Share" button below an old story posted to Facebook, a box will appear with the message "This article is over 3 months old". Meanwhile, Facebook recently rolled out new safety features to its Messenger platform in order to curb interactions with strangers that could lead them to getting scammed. [Full Article...]
Black Hole's Merger With Mysterious Object Stuns Scientists
A paper about the detection appears in The Astrophysical Journal Letters . The author of the publication astrophysicist Vicky Kalogera of northwestern University, argues that a smaller object can be a black hole or a neutron star, the latter of which is the superdense remnant of an exploded star. [Full Article...]
Amazon buys naming rights to KeyArena, will call it Climate Pledge Arena
McLennan, a noted Seattle-area architect and founder of the Living Building Challenge, which is consulting with OVG and NHL Seattle on the arena project. To incorporate all of the new green features , the arena will need to be mostly torn down. News of the arena's new name came two days after Amazon announced its creation of the $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund, a venture-investment vehicle to ... [Full Article...]
Mars Perseverance Prepared For Launch
Thanks to the Mars Helicopter Scout, NASA may be able to obtain unedited top views of the surface of the Red Planet, helping the Space Agency to find interesting points. Ingenuity is about 19 inches (49 centimetres) tall. Another pyrotechnic fires, releasing the other legs. "That is not a lot of room to play with", said Salvo, "but we found if you attach the helicopter horizontally, there is e... [Full Article...]
Saharan Dust to make impact on the Tennessee Valley this weekend
MASK wearing as well as taking other precautions is recommended for those with allergies and respiratory illness as a plume of Sahara dust is predicated to impact some parts of the Bahamas this week. So dense in fact, that even astronauts on the International Space Station could see it, clear as day, over the weekend. Plumes of this dust often move into the tropical Atlantic Ocean every three ... [Full Article...]
'Mystery object' in space may be smallest black hole
Scientists are left questioning their math after a giant black hole 70-times the size of the sun is discovered. This illustration shows the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each other. [Full Article...]