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While knowledge of the mechanisms and dynamics of the growth of atmospheric nanoparticles has increased enormously…

Some of the moon's craters are from interstellar impacts. Can we tell which?

By discovering two interstellar objects (ISOs), we know that asteroids and comets from other star systems…

Astronomers find dozens of massive stars fleeing the Milky Way

The Milky Way can’t hold onto all of its stars. Some of them get ejected into…

How Einstein's daydream of light created relativity

Einstein’s fascination with light, considered quirky at the time, would lead him down the path to…

Is anything absolute with relativity?

The theory of relativity is at once simple and elegant but also maddeningly nonintuitive. There’s no…

Will Saturn’s rings really ‘disappear’ by 2025? An astronomer explains

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute If you can get your hands on a telescope, there are few…

Improved algorithm enhances precision of pressure sensors for wild bird tracking

Researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have…

Alaska judge sides with company on new $7.5 billion oil project

A federal judge upheld the Biden administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ 600-million-barrel Willow oil development in Alaska,…

Smashing the 'concrete ceiling': Black women are still missing from corporate leadership

While white women may speak of breaking through the “glass ceiling,” for many Black women, it’s…

Will Saturn's rings really 'disappear' by 2025? An astronomer explains

If you can get your hands on a telescope, there are few sights more spectacular than…