Europa is the smoothest solid object in our Solar System, thanks to its thick shell of ice. Yet beneath its smooth exterior, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon seems to harbor secrets – namely a deep, salty...
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The Mystery of The Ghost Catfish’s Shimmering Rainbow Can Finally Be Explained : ScienceAlert
The secret behind the ghost catfish’s iridescent twinkle has been uncovered by a team of scientists. Kryptopterus vitreolus casts ethereal, flickering rainbows along its flanks when it shimmies through water. This eye-catching sheen within...
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Scientists Finally Solve Mystery of Why Solar Probes Keep Fogging Up : ScienceAlert
Space probes designed to study the Sun are the last places you’d expect to have a moisture problem. Yet a recent investigation has found aluminum filters on two different satellites are degrading as water...
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The Mystery of Earth’s Uniform Shine Might at Last Have a Solution : ScienceAlert
Take a look at Earth from far off in space, you’d notice it looks uniformly bright. Considering the Southern Hemisphere’s disproportionate expanse of dark ocean waters should reflect back less sunlight, this isn’t what...
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Mystery Smudges Appear on Saturn’s Rings, And We Don’t Know What Causes Them : ScienceAlert
The Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed that a new “spoke season” is kicking off at Saturn. These are the times of the Saturnian year, centered around the equinoxes, when mysterious radial smudge marks, like...
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Astronomers May Have Solved The Mystery of The Bubbles Towering Over The Milky Way : ScienceAlert
When the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope entered low-Earth orbit in 2008, it opened our eyes to a whole new Universe of high-energy radiation. One of its more curious discoveries was the Fermi Bubbles: giant,...
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Sawn Off Skull Found in Mystery Notre Dame Coffin Hints at The Life of a Nobleman : ScienceAlert
The fire that nearly destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019 has led to the discovery of two mysterious lead coffins hidden beneath its floor. The sarcophagi were unearthed earlier this year during a...
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Scientists Solve 100-Year-Old Mystery About How Plants Took Root in Land : ScienceAlert
A team of scientists, led by researchers at Yale University, think they have finally figured out why land plants evolved such complex vascular systems – a mystery that has stood for roughly a century....
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The Strange Mystery of Phobos’ Tiger Stripes May Finally Be Solved : ScienceAlert
Martian moon Phobos is not long for this Universe. According to astronomers’ calculations, the potato-shaped satellite is drawing slowly, but inexorably, closer to its host planet. Eventually, within about 100 million years, the gravitational...
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Strange Mystery of ‘Missing’ Planets Across Space May Be Solved : ScienceAlert
Today, the number of confirmed exoplanets stands at 5,197 in 3,888 planetary systems, with another 8,992 candidates awaiting confirmation. The majority have been particularly massive planets, ranging from Jupiter and Neptune-sized gas giants, which...
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