Life
Goodbye, Goldilocks? The untimely end of life on Earth
From life鈥檚 point of view, Earth sits in the solar system鈥檚 sweet spot. But new calculations suggest it is teetering on the brink of a solar roasting
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Earth
Is Earth’s orbit scarily close to Venus’s sultry zone?
Opinion
Physics
Phew! Earth won’t end up as a Venus-like hell
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Space
Missing moon dust discovered in storage after 43 years
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Earth
Earth’s tides are shoving the moon away faster
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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
News
Space
Moon water came from young wet Earth
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Space
Supersonic cosmic winds blew up giant galactic bubbles
News
Space
Jupiter got a soaking from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
A new map shows how the stuff of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 has spread around the gas giant's atmosphere since it struck Jupiter nearly 20 years ago
Regulars
Space
Closest exoplanet sparks international naming fight
News
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
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