Earth
Earth’s tides are shoving the moon away faster
The North Atlantic is now wide enough to create exceptionally high tides, making the rate of the moon's retreat faster now than it was 50 million years ago
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Space
Astrophile: Saturn’s egg moon Methone is made of fluff
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Space
Why Mercury is a hard orange, not a soft peach
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Space
Moon water came from young wet Earth
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Space
Supersonic cosmic winds blew up giant galactic bubbles
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Space
Jupiter got a soaking from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
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Space
Closest exoplanet sparks international naming fight
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Space
Saturn’s rings leave ghostly imprint on atmosphere
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Life
Meteorites could have been source of life’s batteries
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Space
Astrophile: Mighty Trojan found marching with Uranus
Astrophile is our weekly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse
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Life
Rover finds first life-friendly environment on Mars
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Space
Salty water oozes up from Jupiter moon’s hidden ocean
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Space
Mystery ring of radiation briefly encircled Earth
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Space
Space gold rush should not be a free-for-all
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