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Huge crater in India hints at major meteorite impact 4000 years ago
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Joshua Rapp Learn ,New Scientist , March 26, 2024The Luna structure, a 1.8-kilometre-wide depression in north-west India, may have been caused by the largest meteorite to strike Earth in the past 50,000 years
Bird tracking network receives $3.1-million boost
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USask Media Relations ,SaskToday.ca , March 25, 2024Dr. Christy Morrissey of USask’s Department of Biology and Dr. Chris Guglielmo at Western University are co-principal investigators leading the expansion of Motus further west and strengthen research collaborations across the country.
Titan may not be able to support life after all
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Keith Cooper ,All About Space , March 21, 2024Titan's ocean has a volume 12 times that of all Earth's oceans, but it may be barren of life as we know it
‘Zero chance’ infamous Apophis collides with another asteroid, redirects to Earth
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Jeff Renaud ,Western News , March 04, 2024Western astronomer calculates paths of all known asteroids to rule out planetary impact
Zombie star earns metal scar while chewing its own planets: 'Nothing like this has been seen before'
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Robert Lea ,Space.com , February 26, 2024"It is well known that some white dwarfs — slowly cooling embers of stars like our sun — are cannibalizing pieces of their planetary systems."
One oceans' worth of water destroyed every month in Orion Nebula, researchers say
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Ashley Hyshka ,CTV News London , February 25, 2024An international team of astrophysicists, including from London, Ont.’s Western University, are using the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal the destruction of one oceans’ worth of water every month in a planetary nursery in the Orion Nebula.
This made-in-LaSalle, Ont., machine is being built to go to Mars
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Kathleen Saylors ,CBC News Windsor , February 23, 2024The project is a collaboration between Western University and Proto Manufacturing in LaSalle
Expert insight: Extreme environments coded into genomes of extremophiles
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Kathleen A. Hill, Western University, and Lila Kari, University of Waterloo ,Western News , February 23, 2024Genome of organisms living in extreme conditions reveal information about type of environment they thrive in
Odysseus lander reaches lunar surface, marking first moon landing for U.S. in half a century with private spacecraft
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Ivan Semeniuk ,Globe and Mail , February 22, 2024The landing of Odysseus “is incredibly exciting, as it opens the door to an entirely new way of doing lunar science,” Dr. Osinski told The Globe
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