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In a levitation breakthrough, scientists have created a virtually frictionless, macroscale levitating disk that requires no ...

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Scientific sorcery? Japan achieves near-frictionless levitation on macroscopic rotor A research team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), on Friday, announced that it had ...

Researchers at OIST built a graphite disk that levitates and spins for hours in a vacuum, showing how perfect magnetic ...

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Cha 1107-7626 is estimated to be about one to two million years old — extremely young by astronomical standards.

These starless worlds are difficult to find and study, but this particular one is teaching us new lessons about the universe.

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all ...

Located about 620 light-years away, this rogue planet is about 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn’t orbit a star.