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Scientists may have just found the driving force behind Venus' volcanos

Space 04 Apr 2025
Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports ....
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What's the difference between a young exoplanet and an old one?

Space 03 Apr 2025
A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights into long-standing astronomical mysteries like the "hot Neptune desert" and the "radius valley." ....
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Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter's magnetic field 'like a giant squash ball'

Space 03 Apr 2025
A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports ....
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Major storms on Jupiter can leave a fingerprint in the planet's atmosphere

Space 03 Apr 2025
Big storms can strip some parts of Jupiter's atmosphere of ammonia, while leaving buried reservoirs of the gas elsewhere ....
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Big Mars Dust Devil Eats Smaller Twister In NASA Rover Video

Forbes 03 Apr 2025
Another one bites the dust. NASA's Perseverance rover captured a herd of dust devils dancing across Mars. The biggest dust devil made a snack out of a smaller twister ... .
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'

Space 01 Apr 2025
NASA's new infrared telescope named "SPHEREx" has officially opened its eyes to the cosmos ....
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars

Ars Technica 30 Mar 2025
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one of the most significant findings in the search for evidence of past life on Mars ... Read full article. Comments .
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Strange sphere-studded rock on Mars found by NASA's Perseverance rover

Space 26 Mar 2025
NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled ....
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Curiosity Mars rover discovers largest organic molecules ever seen on Red Planet

Space 25 Mar 2025
While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed ....
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NASA Mars Rover Spots ‘Shocking Spherules’ In Strange Rock

Forbes 24 Mar 2025
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover photographed a weird, bubbly-looking rock. Scientists are investigating its formation and trying to figure out where it came from ... .
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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets

Space 21 Mar 2025
A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects in the distant Kuiper Belt and beyond ....
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LIGO Virgo KAGRA Announce the 200th Gravitational Wave Detection of O4! (LIGO Caltech)

Public Technologies 20 Mar 2025
Keita Kawabe, Senior Scientist, LIGO/Caltech, LIGO Scientific Collaboration "[After 9.5 years of discoveries, the] detection of gravitational waves is not a special occasion anymore, it's a part of our daily lives.
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New air pollution monitors are placed on roofs and buildings in Altadena

LA Daily News 20 Mar 2025
Caltech is putting up 25 air monitoring sites on rooftops and poles in Altadena (some in Pasadena) to measure PM10 pollution (particles) that could be stirred up by ash and debris removal from burned out homes and businesses.
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In DOGE shock, Harvard to Caltech hit brakes on hiring

The Times of India 15 Mar 2025
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is leaving postdoctoral positions unfilled ... Fiona Harrison, the chair of Caltech's division of physics, mathematics and astronomy, writes in an email.
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