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The Cosmic Collision That Formed Saturn’s Rings
Computer simulations offer new insights into the oddities of the ringed planet’s moons -
Hubble Captures the Egg Nebula in Stunning Detail
New images from the Hubble Space Telescope show a nebula in transition -
The Many Myths of the Blood Moon
What people throughout the world and across time have made of lunar eclipses -
Did We Just See a Black Hole Explode?
An “impossible” neutrino detected by an underwater telescope could be the key -
The Farm Boy Who Found Pluto
Despite its demotion from planet status, the tiny but mighty world still captivates scientists -
Grad Student Homebrews Cosmic Dust in the Lab
“It’s like we have recreated a little bit of the universe in a bottle in our lab” -
The Geomagnetic Storm That Sparked Panic Across a Continent
And how it would affect us now -
Ann Druyan on How NASA’s Golden Records Got Made
A comic about humanity’s love letter to interstellar space -
Why Astronauts Quarantine Before—But Not After—Space Missions
Post-flight isolation ended decades ago when scientists no longer feared moon-derived diseases -
Revisiting the Last Crewed Moon Mission on the Eve of the Next
Soon, astronauts might fly farther from Earth than ever before
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I Track Space Debris As It Crashes to Earth
A planetary scientist explains how we can stalk this smoking wreckage
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Tiny Mars has a Big Impact on Our Climate
New research shows the red planet plays an outsized role in Earth’s climate
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Spaceflight Prematurely Ages Astronauts
New research looks at the effects of spaceflight on biological age
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The First Observation of the Fiery Lifecycle of a Massive Solar Storm
“It’s a milestone in solar physics”
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Why Europa Might Not Have Life After All
Europa’s seafloor might be “too quiet” to support life -
How Jupiter and Saturn Dictate Earth’s Oil Deposits
Jurassic mudstones reveal how the heavens impact Earth -
An Asteroid Impact May Explain Our Lopsided Moon
The crash might have radically transformed the lunar interior -
Space Exploration Speaks to the Core of Who We Are
Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf’s 3 greatest revelations while writing his latest book, The Giant Leap -
We’re Evolving Beyond This Rock Right Now
Life is already busy making its transition to being interplanetary