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2 days ago | livescience.com | Harry Baker

QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Mount Nyamuragira and Mount Nyiragongo, Congo [-1.46079851, 29.22711414]What's in the photo? Infrared images of lava lakes that emerged during simultaneous volcanic eruptionsWhich satellite took the photo? Landsat 8When was it taken? June 30, 2014This striking, false-color satellite image shows the intense heat coming from a pair of lava lakes that emerged on simultaneously erupting volcanoes in Congo.

4 days ago | livescience.com | Harry Baker

Earth-based lifeforms known as lichens may be tough enough to survive on Mars, a new study suggests. Scientists came to this conclusion after blasting the lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in less than a day during a lab experiment — and the terrestrial lifeforms survived the process. Mars is not an easy place to live. The Red Planet is essentially one giant desert with a minimal atmosphere, low temperatures and no liquid water at its surface.

4 days ago | livescience.com | Jamie Carter

Go outside an hour before sunrise on Thursday, April 24, and if the skies are clear, you'll be greeted by a spectacular sight in the east: Venus shining at -4.4 magnitude — its brightest, as seen from Earth, until Sept. 22, 2026. Venus currently has the nickname the "Morning Star" because it rises in the east and shines brightly just before sunrise. It's been that way only since March 22, when the planet traveled roughly between Earth and the sun and was lost in the sun's glare for a few weeks.

5 days ago | livescience.com | Elana Spivack

In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble published a paper demonstrating that the universe is expanding. It gave rise to the Hubble constant, the number that describes how fast the universe is expanding. But it eventually created a puzzle, called the Hubble tension, because this cosmic expansion differs depending on what cosmic objects are used to measure it. A new mathematical model could resolve the Hubble tension by assuming the universe rotates.

6 days ago | livescience.com | Stephanie Pappas

Measles kills between 1 and 3 out of every 1,000 children infected with the viral disease. But even for those who survive the illness, the long-term consequences of measles can be serious. Long after a person recovers from their acute infection, their immune system is compromised — and in rare cases, the measles virus can hide out in the nervous system, roaring back to cause a fatal disease years later.