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A major scientific breakthrough has settled a decades-old debate about the moon’s interior. Researchers have confirmed that ...

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Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

But they would all require a radical reimagining of our political system. One is to create a system of proportional representation that would allocate seats based on the percentage of votes ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a rogue planet or a "failed star." Either way, the world wanders the cosmos ...