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Scientists Find Peculiar Differences in Two Uranian Rings
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Scientists Find Peculiar Differences in Two Uranian Rings

The planet Uranus is a weird place. Not only does it roll around the Sun on its side once every 84.3 Earth years, it also sports a spindly set of rings corralled in some places by strange little moons. Two of those rings, the μ (mu) and ν (nu) rings are incredibly faint, which makes them challenging to study.

Scientists Need Your Help to Find Galaxies Bending Light in Space
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Scientists Need Your Help to Find Galaxies Bending Light in Space

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289-Million-Year-Old Reptile Mummy Reveals Origin of Human Breathing System
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289-Million-Year-Old Reptile Mummy Reveals Origin of Human Breathing System

A tiny ancient reptile just revealed the moment breathing as we know it began — and it changed life on Earth forever. Every breath you take traces back to a deep evolutionary past. The steady rise of your chest, the muscles between your ribs expanding outward, and the flow of air into your lungs feel [...]

The Universe is Bending Light, and Astronomers Need Your Help to Find it
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The Universe is Bending Light, and Astronomers Need Your Help to Find it

Einstein told us that massive objects bend light and he was of course, right. Across the universe, giant galaxies are acting as natural telescopes, warping and distorting the light of objects behind them into spectacular arcs and rings. Now the Euclid space telescope wants your help to find them and the scale of the hunt is unlike anything attempted before.

The Planet Haul That Changes Everything.
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The Planet Haul That Changes Everything.

NASA's planet hunting telescope has been busy. A new study has just sifted through the light of over 83 million stars and emerged with more than 11,000 potential worlds, including a confirmed giant planet orbiting a distant star. The results don't just add to our catalogue of planets. They fundamentally change where we look for them.