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Harry Baker

Harry Baker

Staff Writer/Trainee News Writer at Live Science

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Nearby exoplanet has grown a tail 44 times longer than Earth — and it's acting like a giant 'stel...

Researchers have detected a giant tail of gas leaking from an exoplanet near Earth. The giant structure, which is up to 350,000 miles long, is being blown away from the alien world by stellar gusts, allowing researchers to use it like a windsock.
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Europe launches twin spacecraft to make daily solar eclipses in spa...

Later this year, the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission will send two spacecraft into orbit around Earth. By aligning the probes, researchers will create 6-hour-long mini eclipses, allowing the sun’s atmosphere to be studied like never before.
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Gigantic 'spiderwebs' on Mars are the next big target for NASA's Cu...

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like surface features left behind by ancient water on the Red Planet. The zig-zagging rocks could also provide clues about whether Mars once harbored extraterrestrial life.
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'Baby' exoplanet, equivalent to 2-week-old infant, is the youngest ...

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside a misaligned protoplanetary disk that researchers cannot explain.
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Constellations quiz: Can you name all the animals, objects and myth...

Think you know your constellations? See how many star groups you can name in 10 minutes and try to top the leaderboard.
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'Fireball' meteor discovered hours before exploding above Niagara F...

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ever properly measured, researchers say.
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'Supergiant' gold deposit discovered in China is one of the largest...

Chinese officials have announced the discovery of a massive deposit of high-quality gold ore, potentially worth around $83 billion, which could end up being the largest known deposit of the precious metal anywhere in the world.
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NASA spots 'flame-throwing Guitar Nebula' shredding antimatter alon...

New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and supercharged particles spinning along a magnetic field line in interstellar space.
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Earth from space: Wandering sand dunes circle gigantic 'eye' sculpt...

This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by migrating sand dunes, helping researchers track how far these dunes can move over time.
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'Behemoth star' captured in spectacular close-up image — and it's o...

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, which is the first of its kind from outside the Milky Way, shows that the giant star is right on the edge of going supernova.
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Students' 'homemade' rocket soars faster and farther into space tha...

Aftershock II, a new rocket built by students at the University of Southern California, recently broke a number of 20-year-old amateur spaceflight records for altitude, power and speed. It reached more than 470,000 feet above Earth's surface and went "hypersonic."
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Largest dinosaur ever auctioned sells for over $6 million — and it'...

A 70-foot-long Apatosaurus skeleton, named Vulcan, recently became the biggest dinosaur fossil ever sold when it was acquired for around $6.4 million at an auction in France. The sizable remains weigh more than 22 tons.
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Earth from space: Eerily circular 'Goblin Forest' surrounds sacred ...

This 2023 satellite photo shows New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, which is surrounded by a near-perfect circle of deformed trees. The volcano was recently granted the same legal rights as a person.
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James Webb telescope uncovers 1st-ever 'Einstein zig-zag' hiding in...

A new JWST study has revealed the true origins of a luminous quasar that has been duplicated six times as its light "zig-zags" through space-time via a phenomenon first predicted by Albert Einstein. The unusual light show could help tackle one of cosmology's biggest problems, experts claim.
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It would be easier to find aliens in a parallel universe than in ou...

A new model based on the famous alien-hunting Drake equation suggests that some parallel universes within the hypothetical "multiverse" could have higher chances of containing extraterrestrial life than our universe.
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Earth from space: Giant 'phantom lake' dotted with stripy gold isla...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of a massive, half-full ephemeral lake in Australia's Great Sandy Desert.
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Surprised Russian school kids discover Arctic island has vanished a...

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently vanished after "completely melting" away.
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Mysterious, city-size 'centaur' comet gets 300 times brighter after...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually bright in the process. It is the most powerful outburst from the city-size oddball in more than three years.
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Scientists just got 1 step closer to creating a 'superheavy' elemen...

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The team believes this method could potentially help synthesize the hypothetical "element 120," which would be heavier than any known element.
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'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-l...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal. And scientists cannot explain its lack of alien worlds.
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Earth from space: Watch Valencia disappear under a sea of mud durin...

Satellite images show the true extent of the flash flooding in Valencia during a freak weather event that killed at least 214 people across Spain.