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Mars Has a Hidden Heat Divide, Scientists Find
Deep beneath the Martian south, the planet is hiding a fiery secret. New gravity measurements show the interio
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BepiColombo Begins Risky Arrival at Mercury After 8 Years
After eight years of travel, the BepiColombo spacecraft is finally about to reach Mercury. On 3 September 2026
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Mars Auroras Glow Without a Magnetic Field. Here Is How.
Mars has auroras, but they do not work like the ones on Earth. On our planet, the magnetic field funnels solar
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Mars Has Two Kinds of Auroras and Neither Works Like Earth's
Mars has auroras, but they do not behave like the ones on Earth. NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has found that the Re
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Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Impacts Hidden in Crater Rocks
The rocks beneath NASA's Perseverance rover are telling a story of violent collisions that shaped Mars billion
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Asteroid 2016 WW3 Revealed as a Dark Comet With a Hidden Tail
A space rock that astronomers once dismissed as a plain, inert asteroid has been hiding a secret. The object,
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NASA Finds a Planet by Watching Its Star Wobble in a New Way
NASA’s TESS space telescope has spotted a new planetary system using a detection method it was never designed
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NASA: Earth's Life Elements May Have Arrived via Cosmic Dust
The ingredients for life on Earth may have hitched a ride on tiny grains of cosmic dust, not just in large ast
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Saturn's changing spin was an illusion caused by its aurora
Saturn was never changing its spin. For decades, measurements made the planet look like it was speeding up and
