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Evidence points to a long-lost ocean beneath Ariel’s icy crust. Tides and orbit shifts may have cracked its surface billions of years ago. Growing evidence indicates that a deep ocean may lie hidden ...

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A new scientific theory on solar tide effects has dramatically improved the accuracy of calculating how much faster clocks ...

Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges ...

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in complex motion that holds clues to their past. A new study presented at the ...

If the University of Virginia agrees to the terms dictated by a memo sent last Wednesday by Secretary of Education Linda ...

For more than half a century, Johns Hopkins has been a leader in converting federal support into tangible benefits for the ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

After applying the correction, Webb captured sharper images of the star HD 206893, revealing a faint planet and a reddish-brown dwarf previously unseen.