On Feb. 22, 1906, German astrophotographer Max Wolf helped reshape our understanding of the solar system by discovering …
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Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid …
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As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on Dec. 14, 2020, unbeknownst to skywatchers, a tiny …
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An exoplanet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to …
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An orbiting instrument hints at how stored magnetic energy heats the solar atmosphere. A phenomenon first detected in …
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Asteroid Ryugu Dust Delivered to Earth; NASA Astrobiologists Prepare to Probe It
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesOn Dec. 6 local time (Dec. 5 in the United States), Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 dropped a capsule to the …
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Mars once had oceans but is now bone-dry, leaving many to wonder how the water was lost. University …
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On Oct. 29, mission operators sent a series of commands to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time since …
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An international team of planetary scientists, led by astronomers at AOP, have found an asteroid trailing behind Mars …
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Thanks to new research using data from the Kepler space telescope, it’s estimated that there could be as …