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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet’s barren surface.

This time, it appears to be an iron-nickel meteorite dubbed Cacao, which measures roughly a foot across and can be seen in an ultra-high resolution image, stitched together from 19 individual photos taken by the rover on January 28.

The mysterious object’s lovely silver metallic hue stands out like a sore thumb in the surrounding, rust-colored landscape, a sulfate-bearing region of the Red Planet’s Mount Sharp.

A combination of citizen science and machine learning is a promising new technique for astronomers looking for exoplanets.

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The astronomers confirmed the existence of K2-415b, an exoplanet orbiting an M dwarf star some 72 light-years away from Earth, according to a press release.

The minor planet, considered small, is about the size of the Colosseum in Rome.

The ‘amorphous’ solid is denser and could be water ‘frozen in time’.

NASA astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the mass of a white dwarf, an important step for understanding how stars die.

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare star system that is doomed to explode in a ‘kilonova’ caused by the merger of two neutron stars.

Astronomers are gaining a better census of the young Universe and its earliest galaxies.

Somehow, galaxies came together to kickstart the modern Universe. Astronomers have found surprises as they study ‘Cosmic Dawn’ with the Webb Space Telescope.

Some of the moons hadn’t been spotted yet because they are tiny, measuring less than 1 mile in diameter.

Astronomers discovered 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter, meaning the total number of moons we know to be orbiting the gas giant now stands at 92.

Up until the new discovery, Saturn, with its 83 confirmed moons, was thought to be the planet with the most moons.