Bright ideas from astronomy’s biggest stars haven’t always worked out.
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Bright ideas from astronomy’s biggest stars haven’t always worked out.
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What a missing element can teach us about the universe.
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Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
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The importance of feeling small and insignificant.
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Asteroid defense gets serious.
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A controversial theory can explain phenomena attributed to the mystery planet.
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Cassiopeia A gets a close-up.
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Terraforming Mars could risk exterminating the very lifeforms we dream of discovering.
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Did a colossal collision with a doomed planet give us our satellite?
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The author on writing her book, Our Moon, about the power of our satellite to guide evolution and human curiosity.
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