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Although the number of sunspots on our Sun regularly fluctuates in an 11-year cycle, a peculiar 70-year period in which sunspots were extremely rare has baffled scientists for three centuries.

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Researchers Uncover Mysterious Gas from Post-Starburst Galaxies That Was Hiding in Plain Sight

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It was previously believed that post-starburst galaxies scatter all of the gas and dust necessary for producing new stars in swift, explosive bursts of energy.

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Tardigrades could Teach us how to deal with the Stresses of Space Travel

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A new experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is studying tardigrades, tiny creatures also known as water bears due to the way they appear

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First Nuclear Explosion Aids in Testing Moon Formation Theory

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Scientists are using decades-old radioactive glass discovered covering the ground after the first nuclear test bomb explosion to explore ideas on the Moon's genesis some 4.5 billion years ago. In

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On Second Thought, the Water on the Moon Might be Abundant and Immobile

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A recent study of data from two lunar missions reveals proof that the water on the Moon's surface is widely dispersed and not restricted to

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Ingredients for Water Might be Produced in a Chemical Factory on the Moon’s Surface

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NASA scientists have discovered that the solar wind, a stream of charged particles, enriches the Moon's surface with elements that could produce water when it

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James Webb Space Telescope from NASA will alter how we Perceive our Solar System

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Up on the monitor in the James Webb Space Telescope Flight Control Room is an image of the planet Jupiter. Although slightly blurred, it is unmistakable, its characteristic stripes and

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Hubble Identifies Oxygen on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets by Using Earth as a Proxy

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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered Earth-specific sunscreen ozone in our atmosphere by taking advantage of a total moon eclipse. By looking for

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Research on the Moon’s Magnetic Crust Leads Scientists to Disprove Long-Held Theory

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Scientists now understand how and why the Moon's crust is magnetized thanks to new multinational study, thus "debunking" one of the long-held hypotheses. Dr. Katarina

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The Moon’s Magnetic Fields Are the Remains of a Former Core Dynamo

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Currently, it cannot be observed from Earth that the moon has an interior magnetic field. On its surface, there are isolated areas with a magnetic field that is extraordinarily powerful