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A nearby baby star has been discovered with a warped protoplanetary disk — a feature that may reveal the true nature of the solar system’s planetary misalignments
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A massive collision seems to be the only plausible reason why Uranus is the oddball it is, and now we have an idea of what it might have looked like. So what do we do with this data?
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We’re about to learn some new and exciting things about Mars, and we preview what some of them might be.
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How do we know what the insides of Venus or Jupiter look like? The short answer is that we don’t. The longer answer is that we make a fairly accurately guess.
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The debate over whether Pluto is a planet, much less what constitutes a planet, is still raging in the scientific community.
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Planetary scientists who want to study plants other than Mars and very unhappy with what they see as NASA's obsession with the red planet.
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An extrasolar Hot Jupiter called Upsilon Andromedae b has a hot spot in one of the strangest and most awkward possible places in its atmosphere and scientists aren't quite sure why.
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Scientists issue a correction to the age of the Earth. What does this mean? Pretty much nothing...