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Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

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For decades, Europa has been cast as one of the Solar System’s best bets for alien biology, a frozen world hiding a global ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp.

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Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

From orbit, Earth revealed a spectacle few ever witness. As a veteran astronaut prepared to return home, space itself seemed ...

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