astronomy
Mars had dry and wet eras and dried up for good 3 billion years ago
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Astronomers suspect that the comet most likely never passed close to a star, making it an undisturbed relic of the cloud of gas and dust it formed from
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The high schoolers turned scientists published their findings this week, thanks to a research mentorship program at the Center for Astrophysics; Harvard and Smithsonian
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New research looks to the early universe to study primordial black holes, which could account for all or part of dark matter
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New estimate, using data gathered at the National Science Foundation's Atacama Cosmology Telescope, matches the one provided by the standard model of the universe
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Mineralogy points to large, water-rich parent asteroid for carbonaceous chondrite meteorite
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New research indicates that limited resources on Earth's satellite could cause crowding and competition as site selection, extraction become reality
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The raging megaflood—likely touched off by the heat of a meteoritic impact—set up gigantic ripples that are tell-tale geologic structures familiar to Earth scientists
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Supercomputers dig into first star fossils
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Australian scientists' invention will decipher the 'twinkle' of stars
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