Lunar soil is rich with clues about our origin and future home in space. Scientists can’t wait to get their hands dirty.
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Astronomy
A new theory shows Earth’s water was more locally sourced than ever thought before.
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This map of Mars provides an in-depth look at its expansive geography and topography.
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We’re lucky that a relatively recent catastrophe created the gas-giant spectacle.
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One question for Julie Castillo-Rogez, a planetary geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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What future missions to Saturn's moon Titan will reveal about the universe.
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And how the family business first took me there.
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There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants.
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The series of fortunate astrophysical events that gave us Ceres.
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Cosmologists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter.
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