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Scientists have discovered what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably methane or ethane, on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, including one about as big as Montana. Read more »

It’s official: The northern hemisphere of Saturn’s giant moon Titan is dotted with liquid hydrocarbon lakes. The finding vindicates a long-standing prediction that Titan, shrouded in dense nitrogen and methane clouds, should also have reservoirs of liquid—likely methane—on its surface. Read more »

DEM L238 and DEM L249 are two supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud. X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra and ESA’s XMM-Newton observatories suggest that the stars responsible for these debris fields were unusually young when they were destroyed by thermonuclear explosions. Read more »