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Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

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The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...

Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...

Neptune often looks slightly different in observations, as it has dark spots which appear periodically. But it can also be bright at times, as the observations of auroras there show: In the image ...