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Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

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Out in the cold, distant reaches of our solar system, many moons are wrapped in thick layers of ice. At first glance, these ...

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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It was soon deduced that this is an interstellar comet, meaning it has come from another solar system. It’s only the third ...

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