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Will We Be the First Martians?
People have dreamed of colonizing the Red Planet for more than a century. USA Today takes a look at...
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Planets Can Form in the Galactic Center
At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form...
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Weird Exoplanets Could Harbor Weird Life
New research indicates that life might be able to survive on some of the odder exoplanets discovered so far...
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Cameras to Focus on Dark Energy
A pair of detectors that measure minute distortions in images of distant galaxies will probe the riddle of cosmic...
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How Did Mars Lose its Atmosphere?
Mars wasn’t always the Red Planet. Eons ago, it is possible that Mars was as lush as Earth is...
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Dark Energy Is Real, Say Astronomers
Dark energy, a mysterious substance thought to be speeding up the expansion of the Universe is really there, according...
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New Mars Theory Questions Red Planet’s Watery Past
In the past decade, astronomers have observed clay materials on Mars that seem to indicate large bodies of water...
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Cosmic Lithium in the Early Universe
Astrophysicists have explored a discrepancy between the amount of lithium predicted by the standard models of elemental production during...
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The Quantum World Only Partially Melts
Every day we observe systems thermalizing: Ice cubes in a pot of hot water will melt and will never...
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Unified Theory of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Alters Einstein Field Equations
A pair of mathematicians have proposed a unified theory of dark matter and dark energy that alters Einstein’s equations...