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The Mercury News: Former Bay Area man’s conspiracy case, father’s run for Congress spotlight Trump DOJ upheaval, ICE crackdown

The Mercury News: Correspondents’ dinner chaos offset by viral clip of man eating salad

The Mercury News: What we know about Cole Tomas Allen, suspect in Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

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The Mercury News: Could a change to environmental law reduce California costs?

The Mercury News: ‘I don’t expect forgiveness’: Authorities review writings of California teacher suspected of shooting

The Mercury News: State Supreme Court mulling over review of overturned murder conviction in Sierra LaMar disappearance

The Mercury News: Apple at 50: How Cupertino’s tech giant changed what technology feels like

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The Mercury News: Body camera shows tense moments before Santa Rosa officer shoots man

The Mercury News: ‘Wicked’ star Marissa Bode says airline denied her access over wheelchair

The Mercury News: Prince Jackson admits ‘emotional shock’ of seeing cousin as MJ in ‘Michael’

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The Mercury News: Bay Area events calendar for May 1-7 weekly editions

The Mercury News: Helena Bonham Carter leaves ‘The White Lotus’ days into filming

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is proving to be a fascinating world. Not only is it the largest moon in our solar system, bigger than the planet Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, but NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede. The ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface. Ganymede’s ocean is ...

The planetary system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. Beyond our own solar system, there ...