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Where does India’s first exoplanet discovery fit in?
K2–236b was discovered through a global, collaborative effort and can’t be celebrated as a completely indigenous one.
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The Moon's Grand Canyon
The largest valley on the Moon, Vallis Schröteri, is a great place to study the Moon's past lava flows.
Lunar Kipuka!
An island surrounded by lava flows.
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A mission to touch the Sun, with the fastest spacecraft in history
New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, that’s how fast NASA’s Parker Solar Probe can go.
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How spacecraft are protected in space from extreme temperatures
A look at multi-layer insulation.
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How SpaceX's Falcon Heavy could enable fantastic science in the outer solar system
Easing access to Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and beyond.
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Don’t judge a white dwarf by its size; it can pack the mass of our Sun in the size of Earth
An overview of white dwarf stars, their various forms and value to science.
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Weirdest types of moons in the solar system
The laws of physics can get you to weird places.
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Cyanobacteria: The first seed of space colonization?
Making way for a multi-planetary species.
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Possibilities of life in globular clusters
An overview of all the arguments for and against life around one of the oldest stars in the Universe.
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Is the Fermi Paradox really a paradox?
The answer could be hiding in the Drake equation itself.
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The most powerful magnets in the Universe: Magnetars
An object so magnetic it can strip information from all credit cards on Earth at half the Moon distance.
