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Venus has lava tubes, and they’re weird
We are learning more about Venus, the hot, high-pressure planet JSC/NASA We now know for sure…
Asteroid exploded ‘similar to a bomb’ over France in a rare event
An asteroid has fragmented in an unexpected way Wikimedia/CC-BY-SA-4.0 An asteroid exploded over France two years…
Lunar missions may contaminate the moon with hardy Earth microbes
Satellite image of the lunar south pole and Schrödinger basin NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The moon might…
Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi
Wendy (Sydney Chandler) is a hybrid, a new creation in the Alien universe Patrick Brown/FX Alien:…
Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth’s today
Modern Mars barely has an atmosphere NASA/JPL/USGS Mars’s atmosphere may have once been hundreds of times…
Jupiter is smaller and more squashed than we thought
An artist’s impression of the Juno spacecraft over Jupiter’s South Pole NASA/JPL-Caltech Jupiter is not quite…
A weird cloud forms on Mars each year and now we know why
Unusual clouds form over the Martian volcano Arsia Mons each year ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/J. Cowart CC BY-SA…
Deflecting a deadly asteroid just got a lot less dangerous
Hitting an asteroid in the wrong place could accidentally make it more likely to impact Earth…
Asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water flowing through it
The asteroid Ryugu, photographed by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft JAXA Hayabusa 2 Large quantities of water…