Earth's Place in the Universe

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  1. Space

    Check out some of the best pics from the Artemis II mission

    The Artemis astronauts are safely back on Earth. But they immortalized their historic voyage to the moon in these stunning photographs.

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  2. Space

    Artemis II just made a historic loop around the moon

    The astronauts had a front-row view of the lunar farside and the first eclipse ever seen from the moon.

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  3. Space

    Astronauts are flying to the moon aboard Artemis II

    This first human trip to the moon in more than 50 years will take four astronauts farther than anyone has gone before.

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  4. Space

    Supermassive black holes might trace back to huge, ancient stars

    Hefty stars might have collapsed into “intermediate mass” black holes — the building blocks of supermassive ones, a teen’s research suggests.

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  5. Planets

    Let’s learn about Venus

    Venus’ surface is hot enough to melt lead, studded with volcanoes and shrouded in clouds of corrosive acid.

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  6. Space

    They came from other stars! [COMIC]

    Only three interstellar objects have ever been spotted. Here’s what we know about them and why they’re so cool.

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  7. Earth

    Experiment: How does the tilt of Earth’s axis affect the seasons?

    Seasons have nothing to do with Earth’s distance from the sun. The real reason for the seasons is the tilt of Earth’s axis.

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  8. Space

    This cosmologist studies the invisible parts of the universe

    Katie Mack started out building solar-powered LEGO cars as a kid. Now she studies dark matter to better understand how galaxies form and evolve.

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  9. Space

    This is the largest, most detailed radio image yet of our Milky Way

    Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate this new view of our galaxy, as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

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