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New Mars Mineral Found in Ancient Sulfur Deposits
Scientists have identified ferric hydroxysulfate, a potentially brand-new mineral, in ancient sulfate-rich sediments on Mars. The discovery, published...
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Scientists have identified ferric hydroxysulfate, a potentially brand-new mineral, in ancient sulfate-rich sediments on Mars. The discovery, published...
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When a plane vanishes over open ocean, finding it can mean scanning thousands of square kilometers of pitch-black seafloor miles beneath the surface....
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Most stars are not alone in space. Multiple star systems — pairs, triples, and quartets locked in gravitational embrace — are surprisingly common, and...
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Reusable rockets recover their boosters after launch, refurbish them, and fly again—slashing launch costs by up to 75% and transforming space from a g...
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Megamasers are among the most powerful natural phenomena in the universe — radio beams billions of times brighter than ordinary cosmic masers, born fr...
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Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole'—a region where gravitational pull is measurably weaker than the global average. Scientists have...
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Cosmic voids are the vast, near-empty bubbles that make up most of the universe's volume. Far from being irrelevant, these giant hollows are key to un...
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Dark matter makes up 27% of the universe but emits no light and defies direct detection. Here is what scientists know about it, how they proved it exi...
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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the galaxy COSMOS2020-635829 at a distance of 8.5 billion light-years — the most distant "jellyfish galaxy...
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The aurora borealis is one of Earth's most spectacular natural phenomena — but the physics behind those shimmering curtains of color is equally remark...
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Miles beneath the ocean surface, hydrothermal vents host thriving ecosystems powered not by sunlight but by chemicals — overturning everything scienti...
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China's Xuntian telescope — a 2.5-billion-pixel cosmic surveyor set to launch in late 2026 — promises to map 40% of the sky and reshape our understand...
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