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By Pandora Dewan published February 15, 2025 https://www.livescience.com/ The Summerville ghost lanterns have mystified locals for generations. But geologists may have finally cracked the case. Summerville, South Carolina, has been haunted by mysterious “ghost lanterns” for decades. Now, a scientist thinks she’s finally worked out what the floating orbs are: Turns out, they could be linked to tiny earthquakes. …

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SETI Live recently hosted York University planetary scientist Dr. Charles-Édouard Boukaré, whose latest research examines molten rocky exoplanets that orbit so close to their stars that their surfaces remain at temperatures hot enough to keep rock in a liquid state. These so-called lava planets reach surface temperatures of 2,000 to 4,000 Kelvin (3140–6740°F), hot enough to …

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In February 1995, a small research organisation known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive search for an answer to a centuries-old question: are we alone in the universe? This Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of the first astronomical observations conducted for the search, named Project Phoenix. These observations were done at …

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Space17 September 2025, By Michelle Starr At the end of the last solar cycle in 2019, the official predictions were that the next cycle would be just as mild as its predecessor. Those predictions were wrong. The current Solar Cycle 25 turned out far stronger than NASA and NOAA expected. Now, scientists say that the Sun’s activity is …

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