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Most travelers never take the time to look twice at a certain landscape on the road north of Riyadh. Beige,…
There is no forgiveness on the moon. Surface temperatures fluctuated by hundreds of degrees, micrometeoroids and cosmic radiation were constantly…
There was no fanfare when the signal came. The Wide-field X-ray Telescope on board China’s Tianguan satellite, a spacecraft that…
Dark matter has been the universe’s courteous ghost for decades, present everywhere but invisible. It pulls on galaxies, bends starlight…
For many years, the conventional narrative about the slow formation of a planet such as Jupiter was almost comforting. Dust…
It’s difficult to imagine Yellowstone as anything but alive when you stand at the edge of the Norris Geyser Basin…
Life in the deep ocean has an almost unyielding quality. Organisms have discovered a way to survive kilometers below the…
At the edge of the Arabian desert, something subtly amazing is taking place. Farming was never supposed to make much…
Paul Earle, a graduate student, spent two weeks in a room full of boxes filled with nine-track computer tapes in…
A collection of photos had been sitting unexamined since 2017 somewhere in the enormous Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes, a…