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Life

Is Venus Full of Giant Lava Tubes? Scientists Say There’s at Least One.

02.15.26

By Luis Prada
Tech

NASA Successfully Landed Its Digging Robot on Mars

11.26.18

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Scientists Discover ‘Super-Earth’ That’s Only Six Light Years Away

11.14.18

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

What’s That Weird Cloud That’s Been Looming Over Mars for Weeks?

10.26.18

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Scientists Think Europa’s Equator Might Be Covered in 45-Foot-Tall Ice Spears

10.09.18

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

NASA’s Launching a Lander That Will Dig on Mars

05.04.18

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Pluto Has Towers of Ice 1,600 Feet Tall

01.08.17

By Samantha Cole
Tech

Earth’s Core Is Squirting a ‘Jet Stream’ of Liquid Metal Under the Surface

12.21.16

By Grennan Milliken
Tech

Scientists Discovered a New Dwarf Planet at the Edge of Our Solar System

10.11.16

By Madison Margolin
Tech

Mars Was Once Home to 400-Foot-High Waves Caused by Meteor Impacts

05.19.16

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

NASA Deciding Between Saving Earth From Asteroids or Studying Gases on Venus

10.01.15

By Jason Koebler
Tech

A Collision Between Mini-Moons May Have Formed One of Saturn’s Outer Rings

08.17.15

By Becky Ferreira

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