The New Horizons Spacecraft Has Found A Strange Asteroid Teeming With The Ingredients Of Life
Red isn’t a common color outside of planets in our solar system. Sure, you’ve got Mars, and surprising patches of color on Pluto among other mysteries, but by and large, space is greyscale. So that makes MU69, a red asteroid in the Kuiper Belt, a subject of serious fascination among scientists. MU69 …
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The Colorado River rarely reaches the sea. Here's why
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