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Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

The final image captured by the recently decommissioned Landsat 7 satellite shows how "Sin City" has nearly doubled in size ...

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"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

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Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.