Imagine swimming in the ocean and seeing a giant humpback whale approaching calmly... and blowing a perfect ring of bubbles at you. Science fiction? Perhaps not. According to a new study by the Seti Institute and the University of California, these fascinating cetaceans may use this behaviour as a form of interspecies communication. And yes, even with humans. The ring [...]
A new discovery at the edge of our planetary system could rewrite what we know about the outer Solar System. A potential dwarf planet, provisionally named 2017 OF201, has been identified beyond Neptune's orbit: it is estimated to have a diameter of about 700 km and travel in an extreme orbit, taking 25,000 years to complete one revolution around […]
A revolutionary discovery comes from deep space: for the first time, crystalline water ice has been detected in the debris disc orbiting HD 181327, a young star similar to our Sun, located about 155 light years from Earth. Confirming the hypothesis, long debated by astronomers, are data collected by the […]
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