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Ammonia-rich hail sheds new light on Jupiter’s weather
New Juno results suggest that the violent thunderstorms taking place in Jupiter’s atmosphere may form ammonia-rich hail, or ‘mushballs’, that play a…
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Mars 2020 mission launch - Perseverance rover and its SuperCam instrument safely on their way to Mars
Thursday 30 July, the Mars 2020 mission successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida atop an Atlas V launcher. For the Perseverance rover…
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ESA releases first images from Solar Orbiter
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the first images from its Solar Orbiter spacecraft, which completed its commissioning phase in mid-June…
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Quasar jets are particle accelerators thousands of light-years long
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emission from…
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New discovery: first asteroid population from outside our solar system
Ka`epaoka`awela asteroid surprised the world in 2018: it was the first object in the solar system that was demonstrated to be of extrasolar origin…
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Where did the antimatter go? Neutrinos shed promising new light.
We live in a world of matter – because matter overtook antimatter, though they were both created in equal amounts by the Big Bang when our universe…
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