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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Planetary Science

    Meteor showers dig up water on the moon

    Meteorites release water from the moon’s soil, hinting that the moon has water buried all across its surface.

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  2. Planetary Science

    Saturn’s moon Titan sports phantom hydrocarbon lakes

    Three lakes on Saturn’s moon Titan have pulled a vanishing act, a study finds.

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  3. Science & Society

    Black hole image validates imagining the unimaginable

    Human creativity conjured up the most extreme of astronomical phenomena long before they could be seen.

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  4. Planetary Science

    Israel’s first moon mission lost moments before landing

    The spacecraft’s engine cut out just before it was to touch down in the Sea of Serenity.

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  5. Astronomy

    Meet one of the first scientists to see the historic black hole image

    Kazunori Akiyama was one of the first scientists to see the black hole snapshot.

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  6. Astronomy

    How scientists took the first picture of a black hole

    Here’s how scientists connected eight observatories across the world to create one Earth-sized telescope in order to create an image of a black hole.

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  7. Astronomy

    All you need to know about the history of black holes

    From dreaming up black holes to snapping the first picture of one, the history of black holes has had many twists.

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  8. Astronomy

    The first picture of a black hole opens a new era of astrophysics

    Astronomers used a network of telescopes around the world to take a picture of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87.

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  9. Science & Society

    The delight of discovering an asteroid that spits

    Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses recent news about the asteroid Bennu and Kuiper Belt–object Ultima Thule.

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  10. Planetary Science

    Hayabusa2 has blasted the surface of asteroid Ryugu to make a crater

    Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft shot a projectile at Ryugu. Next: collecting asteroid dust from the probable impact crater left behind.

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  11. Astronomy

    This planetary remnant somehow survived the death of its sun

    A small, sturdy piece of planet survived the collapse of its sun and now orbits the dead star.

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  12. Planetary Science

    Metal asteroids may have once had iron-spewing volcanoes

    Two groups of scientists introduce the idea of “ferrovolcanism,” or iron volcanoes, that could have occurred on metal asteroids like Psyche.

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