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The debate over how many Earth-like planets exist has a wide range
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Saturn used to be listed with 83 moons. Then astronomers looked harder, found…
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If microbial life is ever confirmed on Mars, on Europa, or in the plumes of…
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NASA tested a nuclear rocket engine dozens of times in the 1960s, proved it could…
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The footprints left by Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface will remain there…
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The largest known volcano in the solar system is on Mars, and it is so wide that if…
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Saturn’s rings may be far younger than the planet itself
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In 1995, astronomers pointed Hubble at a patch of sky so dark it looked empty and…
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In April 2025, four private astronauts on SpaceX’s Fram2 mission became the first…
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In 1610, Galileo spotted a small, smooth moon circling Jupiter and wrote it down
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Solar storms puffed up Earth’s upper atmosphere enough to drag a $500 million NASA…
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The oldest known image of the cosmos is a Bronze Age disc of bronze and gold, dug…
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The word algebra comes from the title of a book called Al-Jabr, written around the…
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When Sony released a robotic dog called AIBO in Tokyo in May of 1999, the first…
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