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Astronomers have detected helium escaping from LHS 1140 b, providing the first clear evidence of an atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star’s habitable zone.
The single most-photographed patch of rock on Earth is not a mountain in the way most people picture one.
Sugars are fussy, fragile things.
Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, has been hiding an embarrassing accounting problem for decades.
Earth is called the blue planet, but the name flatters us.
Some worlds refuse to explain themselves.
The water under the High Plains took ice ages to collect. The server halls going up above it come with no obligation to report their demand.
Euclid was built to ignore the Milky Way.
A rocket engine that could cut the trip to Mars from nine months to one is sitting in a lab outside Moscow, and it pushes with roughly the force needed to hold an apple.
Two of the most careful measurements in modern science cannot agree on how fast the universe is expanding, and the James Webb Space Telescope was supposed to be the tiebreaker.
