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California condor embryos can develop without fertilization Shutterstock/Barbara Ash Explore the Origin of Sex Lixing Sun, Profile Books The natural world often teaches us about life…
Recent analysis of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe data reveals that protons and heavy ions react differently during solar magnetic reconnection events, highlighting the complexity of space…
Spectroscopy enables astronomers to detect traces of matter in stars, galaxies, and other cosmic entities. Black holes consume dust and encounter various phenomena around them; as…
The sun serves as a fundamental source of heat and light in the solar system, with its energy generated in the core through the collision of…
All previously observed images were captured from the Sun’s equatorial region. This is due to the fact that Earth, along with other planets and operational spacecraft,…
Astronomers have uncovered new phenomena occurring in the solar atmosphere, aided by remarkable new images of stars. In a study conducted by Dark Schmidt and his…
A new “coronal adaptive optics” system has been developed by astronomers at the NSF’s National Solar Observatory and New Jersey Institute of Technology to generate high-resolution…
Upon entering my department’s weekly Astro Coffee Journal Club some years ago, I was immediately struck by an existential crisis regarding the future of our planet.…
Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library When I found out the date of the end of the Earth, everything seemed so simple. Five billion years from now, the…