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A Japanese spacecraft launching next month will attempt to answer one of Mars's deepest mysteries: whether its strange moon Phobos was stolen from the asteroid belt or born from planetary catastrophe.
TOI-1355 b's transit chord is moving off its rapidly rotating star. If the measured drift holds, the final grazing transit will occur around mid-2033.
A casual glance at satellite imagery revealed what geologists had missed for nearly 400 million years: evidence of an ancient cosmic collision hidden in plain sight beneath Quebec's forests.
A failed hunt for exploding black holes yielded a mathematical trick that would eventually route billions of dollars through Wi-Fi routers worldwide.
Nobody expected the barrels to last. That was no secret. Steel drums of laboratory waste, weighted with concrete and tipped off…
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