Science
Enceladus Geysers Reveal Subsurface Ocean and Potential Life
Enceladus has active geysers that spew water vapor and ice particles from its south polar region…
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Enceladus has active geysers that spew water vapor and ice particles from its south polar region…
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Iapetus was first discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1671. One of its hemispheres is very…
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Dione has a diameter of about 697 miles (1,120 km). Its density indicates that roughly one-third…
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Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has a dense, planet-like atmosphere composed mainly of nitrogen (95%) and methane…
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Metis is the innermost known moon of Jupiter, orbiting within the planet’s main ring system. It…
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Io is the most volcanically active moon in our solar system, orbiting the planet Jupiter. It…
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Exotic Objects
In Greek mythology, Theia was one of the Titans, the sister and later wife of Hyperion,…
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Cosmology
In January 2016, astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)…
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Cosmology
The Oort Cloud is the most distant region in our solar system, and it’s jaw-droppingly far…
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Cosmology
A black hole is a massive, compact astronomical object so dense that its gravity prevents anything—even…
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