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Saturn’s rings are young and might be gone almost as quickly as they appeared in planetary terms, according to the latest research by NASA.
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InSight’s recording of Martian winds isn’t what you’d hear if you were on the planet yourself. And if you start asking why, you’ll find out some bizarre and fascinating things about how winds work on alien worlds.
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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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Astronomers found a planet on death row orbiting a dying star. The kicker? That solar system was born in another galaxy.
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Scientists issue a correction to the age of the Earth. What does this mean? Pretty much nothing...
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Despite what the media might have told you, we don't actually know if a rocky planet slammed into Jupiter or not.
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Here's a little something for fans of large, complex space art...
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A rogue star passing through our stellar neighborhood could cause the biggest mass extinction since the Permian in 1.5 million years. Or it might not. We still have to see.
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The coldest place in our solar system isn't somewhere in the outer reaches of the Oort Cloud. It's a network of craters on the Moon.
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Jupiter may have once again saved us from an asteroid impact. But next time, it might steer one our way...