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When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

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Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.

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A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...

A new study with the incredibly exciting title of "Overdispersed Radio Source Counts and Excess Radio Dipole Detection" has ...

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