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Thin lids of ice could have sheltered lakes on ancient Mars and kept surface water liquid even as…

Four Indonesian fishermen have been jailed for four months for poaching sea cucumber from a protected marine park…

What if some of the alien worlds we’ve discovered are not actually planets at all? Astronomers have spent…

In selecting a geometry for the compact extra dimensions, for instance, they chose a space that resembles a…

New observations of a strange galaxy show it was slowly starved to death by its own black hole.…

The tidal island of St Michael’s Mount in the far south-west of Britain is usually a place of…

NGC 3783 is one of the most beautifully shaped spiral galaxies ever observed. You might imagine a calm,…

A nearby galaxy has been caught draining itself of star-forming fuel, with vast streams of superheated material twisting…

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back.…

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If we ever meet aliens, would their physics be the same as ours? While this might seem like…

How Mars’ ancient lakes grew shields of ice to stay warm as the Red Planet froze