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Could Isaac Asimov's Planet Where Nightfall Almost Never Comes Really Exist?
April 09, 2018 | ArticleThe classic science-fiction tale "Nightfall" is set on a planet on which night only falls every 2,049 years. Now, a scientist proposes a planet could exist on which night would never fall — provided it was lit on all sides by a ring of stars orbiting a bl
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A Third of Young Millennials Are Confused About This Incontrovertible Fact
April 07, 2018 | ArticleYounger people seem perplexed about whether Earth is round or flat.
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What Is a Planet?
April 06, 2018 | ReferenceMany astronomers define a planet as an object that orbits the sun (but not another object), is round (or nearly so) and has cleared the area around its orbit.
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Leo Constellation: Facts About the Lion
April 06, 2018 | ReferenceMany cultures have recognized this constellation as the Lion.
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'Traffic Jam' from Collapsing Ring May Have Carved Saturn Moon
April 06, 2018 | ArticleThe slow death of a ring may have built up the distinctive ridges on Saturn's walnut-shaped moon.
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The Most Precise Measurement of Antimatter Yet Deepens the Mystery of Why We Exist
April 06, 2018 | ArticleThe incredibly precise measurement could help explain why the universe exists.
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Meet the Higgs Bubble That Will Destroy the Universe. Maybe.
April 06, 2018 | ArticleScientists have calculated an end date for the universe. Presuming there are no surprises, of course.
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Volcanoes, Swamps and the South Pole: NASA Scientists Take Research to Extremes
April 06, 2018 | ArticleFor some NASA scientists, the extreme environments they study aren't on a distant planet or moon — they're right here on Earth.
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This Is (Probably) the Only Way Dark Matter Interacts with Ordinary Matter
April 06, 2018 | ArticleNew, more accurate measurements of a group of colliding galaxies appear to indicate that dark matter interacts with itself and ordinary matter only via gravity, reversing conclusions scientists had drawn from observations three years earlier.
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NASA's TESS Exoplanet-Hunting Mission in Pictures
April 06, 2018 | Image AlbumSee images of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, which is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 16, 2018.
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