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Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...

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To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

VISITORS to the Moon could race across the planet’s surface in an “extreme” car dropped there by Elon Musk. That’s the vision of a Nasa-backed company that is working on a ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...