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Artist’s rendering of the Kepler space telescope. (NASA)

95 New Exoplanets Found With Data From NASA’s K2 Mission

February 20, 2018

Thanks to data from NASA’s K2 mission, an international team of scientists, led by Andrew Mayo of the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark have recently discovered 95 more exoplanets. From a list of some 275 candidates, the researchers validated 149 of them as actual exoplanets. According to the research team, it […]

Cosmic rays interacting with the Earth's atmosphere producing ions that helps turn small aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei -- seeds on which liquid water droplets form to make clouds. (illustration - H. Svensmark/DTU)

Cosmic Rays Found to Impact Cloud Formation

February 13, 2018

A recent study from scientists at the Technical University of Denmark provides new evidence that cosmic rays play a role in cloud formation, thus affecting our climate. Cosmic rays are a form of fast-moving, high-energy radiation that emanates from the sun or from sources light years away from our solar system. According to the study, […]

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