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Bas den Hond

Giant planet ‘destabilization’ may have coincided with the birth of Earth’s moon

A long-ago reshuffling of the giant planets in our solar system may have been instrumental in giving...

Planets without stars might have moons suitable for life

NOORDWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS — Life might arise in the darkest of places: the moon of a planet...

Air pollution made an impression on Monet and other 19th century painters

The 19th century landscape paintings hanging in London’s Tate Britain museum looked awfully familiar to climate physicist...

Mammoths may have gone extinct much earlier than DNA suggests

Some ancient DNA may be leading paleontologists astray in attempts to date when woolly mammoths and woolly...