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Back to Article List Catch an edge-on comet as Tempel 2 plunges below the plane of our planet’s orbit, heading toward perihelion. Imager Chris Schur captured this photo of Comet Tempel 2 on July 10, showing the comet’s bright green nucleus and thin, edge-on tail as Earth passes through the comet’s orbital plane. Credit: Chris…

A troubling pattern has emerged in this summer’s heat: Not only has it broken records, it’s done so often by margins far above the previous all-time highs. These heat jumps are part of a larger shift of climate change seeming to accelerate. Ocean temperatures just reached a new high for the early summer. Sea levels…

Artificial intelligence is already revolutionizing scientific and cosmological exploration. In a recent research breakthrough, the scientists believe that AI could make the search for new Physics much faster and less expensive. Here is the surprising downside too. The discovery of new Physics through the transfer learning technique is not without risks. In the study published…

Superconductors could one day help power a new generation of ultra-efficient electronics, but major technical hurdles have kept the technology largely confined to research labs. Now, scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new approach that tackles one of the field’s biggest challenges: maintaining superconductivity at higher temperatures while also resisting…

The Moon has been exposed to the solar wind for billions of years. However, new evidence shows that its two hemispheres have not experienced that bombardment in the same way. Particles striking the near side and far side arrive at different speeds and carry different amounts of energy. An analysis of material collected by China’s…

The aftermath of landslides have been found in images of Pluto’s surface taken when the New Horizons mission flew past the dwarf planet in 2015. The landslides are evidence that the icy world is still active, albeit on geological timescales. A team led by geologist Marco Emanuele Discenza pored over images taken by New Horizons’…