Mystery of Martian glaciers revealed
Research shows Mars had as many as six to 20 ice ages during the past 300-800 million years
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Mapping our sun’s backyard
Astronomers and citizen scientists produce the most complete 3D map of cool brown dwarfs in the Sun’s neighborhood
Read moreShining a new light on dark energy
Dark Energy Survey releases catalog of 700 million objects
Read moreScientists and philosopher team up, propose a new way to categorize minerals
A diamond lasts forever, but that doesn’t mean all diamonds have a common history
Read moreThe upside of volatile space weather
Robust stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets, could facilitate its detection
Read moreSwRI-led team finds meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid
Mineralogy points to large, water-rich parent asteroid for carbonaceous chondrite meteorite
Read moreDark storm on Neptune reverses direction, possibly shedding a fragment
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death
Read moreScientists use NASA data to predict appearance of December 14, 2020 eclipse
On Dec. 14, 2020, the Moon’s shadow raced across Chile and Argentina, casting a thin ribbon of land into brief,
Read moreSwRI models point to a potentially diverse metabolic menu at Enceladus
Discovery provides more evidence that the Saturn moon could support life in its subsurface ocean
Read moreA pair of lonely planet-like objects born like stars
Star-forming processes sometimes create mysterious astronomical objects called brown dwarfs, which are smaller and colder than stars, and can have
Read moreExoplanet around distant star resembles reputed ‘Planet Nine’ in our solar system
Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets exist
Read moreHubble identifies strange exoplanet that behaves like the long-sought “Planet Nine”
The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and it may
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