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It's not just Earth that's shaking these days. A NASA mission on Mars has recorded evidence of seismic activity.
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The Solar Orbiter that launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., embarked on the first mission that will provide images of the sun's north and south poles.
This year's Snow Moon is a supermoon, which means it will be one of the biggest moons of 2020 and will look especially large when rising and setting.
Climate change activist Lewis Pugh became the first person to swim in a supraglacial lake, formed on top of a glacier because of melting ice.
For a very long time, Saturn was thought to be the only planet in our solar system with rings.
Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park is a long way from the ocean, but newly discovered fossils suggest the area was once teeming with sharks.
Lower pH levels in the Dungeness crab's habitat in Pacific Ocean coastal waters are dissolving parts of its shell and damaging its sensory organs.
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Some sharks walk. Just not the scary ones. And they've been walking, or something close to it, for at least 9 million years.
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