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Peer inside the solar system’s largest canyon

Valles Marineris is bigger than the Grand Canyon many times over.
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Science

These boulders seemed to move on their own—until one scientist figured them out

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By Oct 23, 2020
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Look inside the hidden world of Earth’s most beautiful caves

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By Oct 8, 2020
Space

Local asteroid Bennu used to be filled with tiny rivers

Six new studies describe the rock’s soggy past and violent present.
By Oct 7, 2020
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A volcanologist shows what makes magma go boom

Kayla Iacovino loves scaling active volcanoes as much as she loves modeling them in her NASA lab.
By Aug 21, 2020
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Mummified leaves offer a glimpse of Earth’s ancient climate—and our future

The fossils hint at a period of high carbon dioxide levels.
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Ancient valleys may hold clues to past life on Mars

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Geologists say Venus has enough active volcanoes to form a ‘Ring of Fire’

The planet is more of a hellscape than we thought.
By May 21, 2020
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Mud volcanoes on Mars hint at ancient water reservoirs

What we thought was lava might be mud instead.
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Space

Mars might be made of mashed-up baby planets

An unexpected composition of two meteorites could rewrite our understanding of the Red Planet’s history.