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Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...

The team found that the lineae occurred preferentially on the Sun-facing slopes of the younger impact craters. This suggests ...

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Late last July, a University astrophysicist helped discover the smallest planet ever detected outside the solar system — without even seeing it. Using a planet-finding technique called "gravitational ...

As a science communicator, I don’t think a week goes by without a press release hitting my inbox informing me of astronomers finding some new record-breaking object. Sometimes it’s the smallest planet ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s possible for these distant worlds. And when we say say “stretch, ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...