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A Lake on Saturn’s Moon Titan Is More Than a Sea Monster
Saturn's moon Titan represents a model environment of a possible atmosphere of early Earth.
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Nap Quest: How Suspended Animation Could Fuel Space Exploration
Suspended animation may offer an approach to space exploration that lets us go farther and faster...
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Fermi Bubbles Reveal an Exploding Galaxy: Our Own
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered two vast plumes of energetic gas near the Milky Way...
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First Image of Black Hole Shadows Suggests Einstein Was Right — Again
Don't bet against Albert Einstein. The first image of black hole shadows suggests that Einstein's theory...
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More Geysers on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
NASA's Cassini space probe has provided more evidence of a subsurface ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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What Ever Happened to the Moon’s Magnetosphere?
The astronauts who brought back moon rocks half a century ago also revealed a lunar mystery:...
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Venus Rocks! And Some May Have Ended Up on the Moon
Venus rocks may help us understand the forbidden planet of our solar system, which is at...
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Red Planet Road Trip: Space Travel to Mars Meets Speculative Sightseeing
When regular space travel to Mars becomes a reality, what would a Red Planet road trip...
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A Supermassive Black Hole Sheds Light on Early Universe
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile have discovered a clump of six galaxies...
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Juno Spacecraft May Extend Jupiter Mission
NASA mission planners might be giving the go-ahead for a new Jupiter mission using the existing...
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May the Star Wars Technology Be With You
Star Wars technology isn't entirely reserved for science fiction. Some technologies — such as lasers and...
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Ceres: From Asteroid to Ocean World
Since its discovery on January 1, 1801, what was originally taken for a comet and later...
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Planet 9, a Black Hole Mystery, and Planets Beyond
Is the mysterious, much-searched-for Planet 9 really a black hole?
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When Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Collide
The two greatest achievements of modern physics — quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of general relativity...