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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Damien Pine

    'We may need to think differently': Star system with 'backward' planet moving the wrong way around its star has scientists puzzled (opens the original)

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    Researchers have discovered an exoplanet that travels around its small, red star backward, much like a rubber duck spinning against the current in a whirlpool. The discovery could give insight about how exoplanets form around the most common types of stars in our galaxy. It's a mystery why the alien world, called GJ 3090 b, orbits its star backward (also called a retrograde orbit). Stars and planets usually form from the same rotating disk of gas and dust, called a protoplanetary disk. Newly for

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Damien Pine

    Newly discovered iron minerals might hold primordial water from when Earth formed (opens the original)

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    Newly discovered iron minerals could be the missing link in how water is stored in the deepest parts of Earth's mantle and transported to the upper layers, recent research reveals. The findings are crucial for understanding the mantle's motion, volcanic activity and the workings of other rocky planets, the study authors say. The researchers discovered the iron minerals, called iron oxyhydroxides, by squishing mineral samples between two tiny diamond anvils while zapping them with a laser. The tw

  3. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Damien Pine

    Scientists got diamond's melting point wrong by more than 1,000 degrees, crushing new laser experiment reveals (opens the original)

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    Scientists melted diamonds with a powerful laser to take some of the most precise measurements of the mineral's elusive melting point — and found that previous experiments were off by more than 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit (700 degrees Celsius). It's odd to think of diamond, the hardest natural material on Earth, melting — but melt it does when blasted with extremely powerful lasers under the right conditions. Understanding how diamond responds to shock waves from lasers is an important part of deve

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