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This Piping-Hot Rocky World Looks Surprisingly Wet
The Webb Space Telescope recently trained its perceptive gaze on a rocky exoplanet about 26 light-years from Earth and found that it appears to have water vapour in its atmosphere — a shock, given its extreme heat and its proximity to its host star.
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Russia Isn’t Leaving the Space Station Anytime Soon
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than 12 months ago, senior figures at the country’s space agency threatened to pull out from the International Space Station – even going so far as to unveil its own future competitor to the space base. But now, a year on, the country has pledged to instead retain its…
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Rover Spots Possible Evidence of Liquid Water on Modern Mars
China’s Zhurong rover has found evidence of liquid water on present-day Mars, according to a team that reviewed data from the rover’s cameras.
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Scientists Sequence Genome of Famous Good Boy Balto the Sled Dog
Balto the sled dog is famous for being part of a sled team that delivered medicine from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Nome, Alaska, through harrowing blizzard conditions in 1925. Now, a team of scientists has sequenced the dog’s genome using DNA found in his taxidermied remains.