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The researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in South China's Guangdong province analyzed multi-temporal images of the moon's ...

Nearly two hundred years ago, an event so rare occurred that even the phrase “once in a blue moon” doesn’t quite describe it.

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After graduating from Waiakea High School, I went east for my undergraduate degree at Harvard, in Cambridge, Mass. During the ...

"Although this doesn't rule out the possibility that Enceladus' ocean may be habitable, it does mean we need to be cautious ...