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...study by a Czech-German-American team led by Petr Brož presents convincing new evidence convincing new evidence that at least some of these are genuine volcanoes. Brož and his team studied cones in Coprates Chasma, the deepest part of Mars’s Valles Marineris canyon system. This is far removed from any of Mars’s main volcanic provinces, and suggest magma has erupted...

...study the stars themselves. Changes in the stars are harder to see than the dips in light from exoplanet transits. That means we can’t use automated algorithms to study stars or find black holes. Instead, we must look at the data by eye. But there is far too much data for the scientists to study, so we turned to citizen science for help. Whereas SuperWASP Variable Stars...

...study for over half a century. But in 2019, meteorite scientists were once again blessed by the cosmic gods when a fireball crashed into the Aguas Zarcas region of the Alajuela province in Costa Rica, depositing yet another CM2. With a recovered mass in excess of 25kg, it is the largest recorded CM fall since Murchison. Billions of years ago the Earth was pummelled by...