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A new study of more than three dozen dwarf galaxies has surprised researchers with just how little oxygen they have been able to retain over cosmic time. The results reveal that we still have major gaps in our understanding of galaxy evolution. universetoday.com/articles/n… – at Lake Forest Park, WA

The decades old idea that our solar system’s Oort Cloud is continually perturbed by a heretofore undetected low mass Red Dwarf star remains the best explanation for periodicities found in Earth’s impact record. universetoday.com/articles/o… – at Lake Forest Park, WA

Almost all meteorites come from asteroids, not the Moon or Mars. But after decades of analysis of the Apollo samples, researchers still rely on lunar meteorites to better understand our anomalously large Moon. universetoday.com/articles/r… – at Lake Forest Park, WA

Despite the upcoming BepiColombo visit to Mercury, we need a lander mission to fully understand our solar system’s innermost planet. universetoday.com/articles/e… – at Lake Forest Park, WA

Asteroids which strike the Moon and create new craters offer lunar scientists a window onto the workings of our natural satellite’s shallow subsurface. universetoday.com/articles/n… – at Lake Forest Park, WA

Cosmic topology is as esoteric as cosmology can get. But a growing number of astrophysicists think it holds keys to understanding the universe on its largest scales. universetoday.com/articles/a…

Nitrous oxide (otherwise known as laughing gas) is likely a key atmospheric component of life in the cosmos. universetoday.com/articles/l… – at Seattle, WA

Venus likely never had a moon and even if it did, it would have soon been torn asunder by the planet’s own gravity, says prominent planetary astrophysicist. universetoday.com/articles/v… – at Lake Forest Park, WA

Extreme quasars near the dawn of time are giving astrophysicists clues to the formation of supermassive black holes. universetoday.com/articles/d… – at Lake Forest Park, WA