Perseverance just landed on Mars, where it will search for signs of life. But space's cool factor doesn't begin or end there!

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The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

The idea of black holes was first proposed in 1916, but at the time, physicists didn't think they actually existed. Today, we ...

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Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...