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A New Look at Old Data Suggests Europa Shoots Watery Plumes Into Space
Scientists made the surprising discovery by turning the powers of modern computing on 1997 data collected during the Galileo mission
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Venus and Jupiter May Meddle With Earth’s Orbit and Climate
In 405,000-year cycles, the tug of nearby planets causes hotter summers, colder winters and drier droughts on our home planet
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The Sun Will Produce a Beautiful Planetary Nebula When It Dies
A new model of stellar death shows our low-mass star has enough juice to produce a beautiful ring of gas and dust before winking out
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New Star Map Could Change Everything We Know About the Milky Way
The map includes 1.7 billion stars and is already revealing new details about star evolution and the formation of our galaxy
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Diamonds Trapped in Strange Meteorite Came From Solar System’s Earliest Planets
Impurities in the diamonds could only have formed within a planet the size of Mercury or Mars
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70,000 Years Ago, a Passing Star Shook Up Our Solar System
The red dwarf likely came within one light-year of the sun, altering the course of some asteroids and comets
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Purple Haze: Alien Atmospheres Recreated In the Lab
By combining various gases with plasma, researchers are learning about the haze around distant planets
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New Juno Data Gives Unprecedented Glimpse Beneath Jupiter’s Stormy Shell
The massive planet’s storm go much deeper than previously suspected and its interior rotates nearly as a solid mass
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Some of Earth’s Deep Sea Microbes Could Survive on Saturn’s Moon
A methane-producing archaea survived simulations of Enceladus’ extreme conditions, hinting at the possibility of similar extraterrestrial life
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New Horizons Snaps Farthest Image Ever Taken From Earth
Drifting 3.79 billion miles from home, the NASA probe took pictures of two Kuiper Belt objects
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Is SpaceX Being Environmentally Responsible?
Falcon Heavy’s flashy space car may not have been the best idea—for Mars
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1968: The Year That Shattered America
Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?
The mission returned to Earth with one of the most famous images in history
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Unusual Interstellar Visitor Could Be Shard of Ice
A new study of ‘Oumuamua suggests it’s water ice covered with 20 inches of dry carbon compounds
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Shadows of Saturn’s Rings Mess With Its Upper Atmosphere
The Cassini probe’s final swoops through the rings found that they impact the planet’s ionosphere
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How AI Found the First Eight-Planet Solar System Beyond Our Own
Google’s neural network sifted through piles of NASA data to find a planet hiding in the spacestacks
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What Lurks Below Jupiter’s Great Red Spot?
New results from the Juno spacecraft are helping to unlock the secrets of this centuries-old storm
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Mars’ Streaks of Flowing Water May Actually Be Sand
Scientists have debated for years if—and how much—water could exist on the Red Planet
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Self-Taught Rocket Scientist Will Launch From California This Weekend
Mike Hughes built his homemade rocket in an effort to “prove” the Earth is flat. He also plans to run for governor
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The First Interstellar Object Seen Buzzing by Earth Is Pretty Weird
Roughly the size of a football field, the object is roughly 10 times longer than it is wide
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