Mars could be warmed by scattering artificial nanoparticles, which are far more effective than greenhouse gases, potentially melting ice and making the planet more habitable.

Researchers have identified the specific locations from which most of the approximately 200 Martian meteorites originate

Scientists Find Water Molecules in Lunar Rock Sample for the First Time

A diamond-bearing core-mantle boundary on Mercury

Researchers figure out how to keep clocks on the Earth, Moon in sync | A Relativistic Framework to Estimate Clock Rates on the Moon

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Scientists find a molecule never before found outside our solar system on a planet with glass rain

Perseverance Captures 'Bright Angel' in 360 Degrees

Bright fireball over Massachusetts, U.S.

‘Morning’ and ‘evening’ detected on an exoplanet

Underground cave found on moon could be ideal lunar base, which could shelter humans from harsh lunar environment, reachable from the deepest known pit on the moon in the Sea of Tranquility

A team that includes a University of Michigan astronomer has identified a temperate exoplanet as a promising super-Earth ice or water world

England-size pixels help astronomers find new Jupiter shape

A middleweight black hole has been spotted for the first time in our galaxy, researchers report in Nature

World’s highest observatory in Chile complete after 26 years

Scientists propose lunar biorepository as ‘backup’ for life on Earth - Experts say facility on the moon with preserved cells, and the crucial DNA within them beyond reach of climate breakdown and other terrestrial events is needed to safeguard biodiversity.

"Geological context of the Chang’e-6 landing area and implications for sample analysis" - Lunar far side samples' data being shared by China

Radio wave scattering observations suggest that the energy deposition rates due to ion-sound wave damping are comparable to the rates available from a turbulent cascade of Alfvénic waves at large scales; suggesting a coherent picture of energy transfer and coronal heating.

Lunar swirls are light-colored, sinuous features on the Moon’s surface, bright enough to be visible from a backyard telescope

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Rotation curves of galaxies stay flat indefinitely

Jupiter's great red spot may not be the original one discovered 350 years ago

Supermassive black hole appears to grow like a baby star

Astronomers see a massive black hole awaken in real time

Computer Vision Techniques Demonstrate Robust Orientation Measurement of the Milky Way Despite Image Motion

Astronomers have discovered three potential “super-Earth” exoplanets orbiting a relatively nearby orange dwarf star

A well-known X-ray binary Cygnus X-3, whose exact nature has been a mystery to scientists until now, was revealed to be a hidden ultraluminous X-ray source residing in the Milky Way

Seismic signals have suggested Mars gets hit by around 300 meteorites every year, providing a new tool for dating planetary surfaces

Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample

New study finds seven potential Dyson Sphere megastructure candidates in the Milky Way - Dyson spheres, theoretical megastructures proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960, were hypothesised to be constructed by advanced civilisations to harvest the energy of host stars.

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