The moon’s two grand canyons formed in less than 10 minutes
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A crumbling exoplanet spills its guts
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s insides. An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report this week at a meeting of…
Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a kiss
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NASA’s Perseverance rover found a new potential setting for Martian life
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Mars’ potato-shaped moons could be the remains of a shredded asteroid
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A first look at rocks from the lunar farside create a...
The first samples from the farside of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south pole. Two separate analyses of lunar rocks brought to Earth by China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft show the rocks formed from cooling magma relatively recently, about 2.8 billion years ago, according to papers published November 15 in Science…
Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by
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50 years ago, scientists found a new moon orbiting Jupiter
Jupiter’s new moon — Science News, November 2, 1974 Jupiter’s tentatively identified 13th moon, discovered in September by California Institute of Technology astronomer Charles Kowal, now appears almost certain to be the real thing.… So far known only as J-XIII, the object appears to orbit the planet in the same direction as its rotation. Update…
The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites have been found
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NASA’s Europa mission is a homecoming for one planetary astronomer
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