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How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?
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 ...
It's the 10-year anniversary of the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 billion-year-old comet
On November 12 2014, Philae – the lander of the spacecraft Rosetta of the European Space Agency (ESA) – landed on a comet for ...
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Voyager 1 Reconnects with NASA Using 42-Year-Old Backup System
Voyager 1, NASA’s furthest-traveling spacecraft, re-established contact after a brief communication gap by switching to a ...
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The largest water reservoir in the universe holds 140 trillion times more water than on Earth
Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense ...
Uranus, Pompeii and the endless search for truth
Uranus, of course, is the seventh planet from the sun, 1.6 billion miles from Earth at their closest orbits. It was in the ...