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Orbiter Spots ‘Dry Ice’ Snowflakes Falling on Mars
A spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected carbon dioxide snow falling on the Red Planet, making Mars the only body...
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Link Found Between Cold European Winters and Solar Activity
Scientists have long suspected that the Sun’s 11-year cycle influences climate of certain regions on Earth. Yet records of...
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Antarctica Warmth ‘Unusual, but not Unique’
The recent Antarctic Peninsula temperature rise and associated ice loss is unusual but not unprecedented, according to research. Analysis...
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As NASA Explores Space, Dinosaur Prints Found in Own Backyard
At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, some of the most brilliant minds in the world work to...
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Mars’ Plate Tectonics May Make Life More Likely
As it turns out, Mars and Earth may be more similar than previously thought in one momentous way: Mars...
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A Week on Mars: Curiosity Rover Settles in for Long Martian Haul
After a full week on the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is celebrating with a little rest and...
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Evidence Suggests Quasicrystals Have Extra-Terrestrial Origins
Results from an expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals...
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Curiosity Lands Safely: ‘Wheels Down on Mars’
Curiosity, the largest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet, stuck its extraordinary landing in triumphant and...
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Massive Landslides Spotted on Saturn’s Icy Moon
Landslides up to 50 miles long, spotted on Saturn’s moon, Iapetus, could help provide clues to similar movements of...