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The Intruder That Knocked Our Planets Askew

Universe Today - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 2:38pm

Billions of years ago, a rogue planet eight times more massive than Jupiter tore through our Solar System, passing closer to the Sun than Mars orbits today. That single violent encounter may explain why our giant planets don't orbit in perfect circles like formation theories predict and new simulations suggest there was roughly a one in 9,000 chance it happened at all. The discovery reveals that near misses with interstellar wanderers might be more important in shaping planetary systems than anyone realised.

Categories: Astronomy

Heat Waves Will Be Less Extreme because of Paris Climate Agreement

Scientific American.com - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 2:28pm

Ten years after the Paris climate agreement, the limited progress we’ve made in reducing global warming means that there will be less extreme heat in the future than there would be without the accord

Categories: Astronomy

When Space Junk Comes Home

Universe Today - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 2:12pm

When a chunk of SpaceX rocket debris crashed into a Polish warehouse this year, it exposed a troubling reality, that the international laws governing space accidents were written for a world where only governments launched rockets. Now, as private companies deploy thousands of satellites and debris rains down with increasing frequency, victims have no direct legal recourse and must rely on their governments to pursue claims on their behalf, that’s if those governments choose to act at all. A new analysis reveals how a Cold War era treaty struggles to protect ordinary people in the age of commercial spaceflight, and why some nations are now taking matters into their own hands.

Categories: Astronomy

The Epstein-Barr Virus May Cause Lupus

Scientific American.com - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 2:05pm

Early findings indicate that Epstein-Barr virus may also cause the autoimmune disease lupus

Categories: Astronomy

Strongest evidence yet that the Epstein-Barr virus causes lupus

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 2:00pm
Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, or mono – before, but we now have evidence of how it can bring about the autoimmune condition
Categories: Astronomy

Strongest evidence yet that the Epstein-Barr virus causes lupus

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 2:00pm
Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, or mono – before, but we now have evidence of how it can bring about the autoimmune condition
Categories: Astronomy

Finally wrangling with the complexity of female bodies benefits us all

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
Medical research has long sought to gloss over the hormonal and chromosomal complications typical of female biology. But embracing this complexity could benefit everyone
Categories: Astronomy

Finally wrangling with the complexity of female bodies benefits us all

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
Medical research has long sought to gloss over the hormonal and chromosomal complications typical of female biology. But embracing this complexity could benefit everyone
Categories: Astronomy

The 19th-century maths that can help you deal with horrible coffee

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
Do you need to fairly allocate players to teams, or sort out a pot of badly brewed coffee? Katie Steckles has a mathematical solution
Categories: Astronomy

The 19th-century maths that can help you deal with horrible coffee

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
Do you need to fairly allocate players to teams, or sort out a pot of badly brewed coffee? Katie Steckles has a mathematical solution
Categories: Astronomy

Breaking Bad showrunner uses sci-fi for smart dive into happiness

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
Vince Gilligan, the showrunner behind Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is back, this time using sci-fi to explore a deceptively rich premise about the pursuit of happiness and the notion of utopia, finds Bethan Ackerley
Categories: Astronomy

Breaking Bad showrunner uses sci-fi for smart dive into happiness

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
Vince Gilligan, the showrunner behind Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is back, this time using sci-fi to explore a deceptively rich premise about the pursuit of happiness and the notion of utopia, finds Bethan Ackerley
Categories: Astronomy

New Scientist recommends this extreme birdwatching documentary

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Categories: Astronomy

Smart new book takes an axe to the myth of human exceptionalism

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
Christine Webb's provocative and moving book The Arrogant Ape explores our unjustifiable sense of superiority in the living world, laying out the evidence against it, says Elle Hunt
Categories: Astronomy

New Scientist recommends this extreme birdwatching documentary

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Categories: Astronomy

Smart new book takes an axe to the myth of human exceptionalism

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
Christine Webb's provocative and moving book The Arrogant Ape explores our unjustifiable sense of superiority in the living world, laying out the evidence against it, says Elle Hunt
Categories: Astronomy

Is the future of education outside universities?

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
New technologies and academic funding cuts are upending the ways we learn today. Newly enrolled student Annalee Newitz finds some silver linings
Categories: Astronomy

Sperm are selfish – and so are we

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
A new study hammers home how the "survival of the nicest" view makes no sense when it comes to evolution, says Jonathan R. Goodman
Categories: Astronomy

Is the future of education outside universities?

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
New technologies and academic funding cuts are upending the ways we learn today. Newly enrolled student Annalee Newitz finds some silver linings
Categories: Astronomy

Sperm are selfish – and so are we

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 1:00pm
A new study hammers home how the "survival of the nicest" view makes no sense when it comes to evolution, says Jonathan R. Goodman
Categories: Astronomy