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  1. Science & Society

    Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century

    A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

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  2. Space

    A near-Earth asteroid offers clues to one dark matter theory 

    Data from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu place a ceiling on the strength of a hypothetical fifth force that could explain dark matter’s origins.

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  3. Space

    JWST spots the first known ‘steam world’

    Astronomers have found a world shrouded in an atmosphere of water vapor, orbiting a star 100 light-years away.

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  4. Planetary Science

    The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites have been found

    Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

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  5. Planetary Science

    NASA’s Europa mission is a homecoming for one planetary astronomer

    Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.

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  6. Planetary Science

    Saturn’s first Trojan asteroid has finally been discovered

    Saturn joins the sun’s other giant planets that have Trojans, space rocks that orbit along the same path.

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  7. Astronomy

    Runaway stars could influence the cosmos far past their home galaxies

    Dozens of stars fleeing a neighbor of the Milky Way suggest these escapees could have an outsized influence on their cosmic surroundings.

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  8. Planetary Science

    Europa Clipper has launched to solve an alien mystery

    Launched October 14, the spacecraft will repeatedly buzz Europa in search of water, energy and organic compounds.

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  9. Space

    50 years ago, satellites threatened astronomers’ view of the cosmos

    As satellite launches ramp up and the spacecraft clog the skies, astronomers fear for their data.

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