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The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

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The most extreme black hole collision ever recorded looked, at first, like it should not have happened at all. Two objects each weighing roughly as much as one hundred Suns crashed together in a ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.

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