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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Some minerals in lava could suggest water is nearby.

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NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

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