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THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — A young, ultrabright Jupiter may have desiccated its now hellish moon Io. The planet’s bygone brilliance…

A neutron star pileup may have emitted two different kinds of cosmic signals: ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves…

A rocky planet that circles a small star nearly 40 light-years from Earth is hot and has little or no…

Black holes exist in our universe. That’s widely accepted today. Physicists have detected the X-rays emitted when black holes feed,…

Off-EarthErika NesvoldMIT Press, $27.95 Astrophysicist Erika Nesvold once asked an executive of a company aiming to mine the moon how…

Uracil, a building block of life, has been found on the asteroid Ryugu. Yasuhiro Oba and colleagues discovered the precursor…

17th century scientist Christiaan Huygens set his sights on faraway Saturn, but he may have been nearsighted. Huygens is known,…

THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Martian dirt may have all the necessary nutrients for growing rice, one of humankind’s most important…

Venus has active volcanism. A new analysis of decades-old images reveals the first definitive sign of a volcano erupting on…

THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Vestiges of a moon-forming cataclysm could have kick-started plate tectonics on Earth. The leading explanation for…