Shannon Hall is an award-winning freelance science journalist, who specializes in writing about astronomy, geology and the environment. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, Nature, Quanta and elsewhere. A constant nomad, she has lived in a Buddhist temple in Thailand, slept under the stars in the Sahara and reported several stories aboard an icebreaker near the North Pole.
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A new image-processing technique is bringing Saturn's largest moon, Titan, into clearer view than ever before.

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The International Space Station now plays host to an experiment that could help scientists unlock the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease.

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The debris from the military weather satellite that exploded in orbit last month doesn't pose a threat to any nearby ESA missions, the agency says.

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In honor of the Pi Day of the century, 3.1415 (March 4, 2015), NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a dizzying math challenge. Hint: every solution will use the mathematical constant pi

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For the first time, astronomers have caught a fast radio burst as it was happening and just might be zeroing in on the origins of these energetic events.

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A newly discovered exoplanet's ring system puts Saturn's collection to shame. What's more, a large gap in the rings suggests the presence of at least one Earth- or Mars-size exomoon.

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Orange bubbles, blue patches, and red wisps of light dance in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope photo toward the constellation of Taurus.

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Some of the most violent phenomena visible now appear to lie beyond the Milky Way in its largest satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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