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By Chelsea Gohd Published
"We think early Earth might have looked a lot like a lava world."

By Robert Lea Published
"We are seeing an extremely overfed black hole wrapped in its own fuel."

By Robert Lea Published
Rogue black holes that break away from their cosmic homes may carry with them the histories of the galaxies they may eventually escape.

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Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2026.

By Chelsea Gohd Published
Unusual formations in Mars' Arabia Terra region reveal the Red Planet's climate history.

By Micah Hanks Published
Billions of years ago, something happened in our solar system that gave rise to one of the most peculiar planetary mysteries: What caused Uranus to spin on its side?

By Keith Cooper Published
The findings also suggest that the material that gave birth to Bennu was representative of the average elemental content of the planet-forming disk that also formed Earth and the planets.

By Keith Cooper Published
The icy moons of the outer solar system could have experienced many impacts and been broken apart, but whether they keep an ocean depends on their size.

By Robert Lea Published
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that just 500 million years after the Big Bang, galaxies were already pumping heavy elements into the infant universe.

By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
"It passes through our bodies, our cells and every living organism on the planet, yet we know surprisingly little about whether and how this invisible force affects the way our cells work."
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