All stories by James
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Dwarf planet Ceres is covered in deep salty oceans, spacecraft finds
Ceres is rich with water, the Dawn spacecraft finds. What can this mean for finding life on other worlds? Ceres is ...
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Research: Ancient Japan's red flying pheasant may have been an aurora
Pheasants are traditional messengers from Heaven in Japanese folklore. So, what happened the day a giant red one appeared ...
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Mercury’s extremely hot temperatures might help ice form on its surface
Ice on Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, may seem impossible. But, could scorching temperatures on that world ...
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Extremely big and incredibly close: Meet the new Neptune-sized exoplanet G 9–40b
Originally discovered by the Kepler space telescope, G 9–40b has just been confirmed as an exoplanet by a team of Penn ...
